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How Listing Fees On Advisory Firm Websites Can Clearly Communicate The Cost (And Value) Of Planning

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In part, this is due to the many commission-based advisors whose compensation depends on the sale of insurance or investment products, where the price that a client pays is baked into the price of the product or is included in (often opaque) fees associated with buying, selling, and/or holding the investment.

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#FA Success Ep 356: Scaling To (Nearly) $2M Of Revenue As A Flat-Fee, Advice-Only Firm, With Sarah-Catherine Gutierrez

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Sarah-Catherine is the founder of Aptus Financial, a fee-only financial planning firm based in Little Rock, Arkansas, that is approaching $2M in revenue and works with over 480 client households. Welcome to the 356th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Sarah-Catherine Gutierrez.

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#FA Success 291: Managing Fast Growth And Slow Growth Of A Planning-Centric Advice Firm, With Amy Irvine

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In this episode, we talk in-depth about how after working for years in the financial industry, Amy realized there was a missed opportunity in working with career-driven Gen X women like her and decided to focus on serving that type of clientele she knew so well, how the initial fear of launching a firm on her own initially led Amy to partner with another (..)

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#FA Success Ep 372: Quadrupling Revenue By Restructuring Your Business Model To Reflect Your Entire Value To Clients, With Melody Townsend

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What's unique about Melody, though, is how after her first decade in practice, she quadrupled her revenue in the subsequent 2 years by restructuring her business model from standalone hourly engagements and project planning fees to a more holistic wealth management offering that combined investment management and financial planning for a single AUM (..)

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Advice-only financial planners are stealing the show!

Sara Grillo

What is an advice-only financial planner? Advice-only financial planning is fee-only comprehensive financial planning without the expectation or even the option to manage any client investments. No business plan, no. So please subscribe! What the heck is going on? Nothing, literally nothing.