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If a prospective client doesn’t want to pay the entire fee for a written financial strategy, should I consider offering a lower level of service, such as quarterly coaching calls? Or is it a better strategy to offer either the Financial Plan or nothing?

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Last updated: 20 Nov, 2019

All or nothing.

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I have recently bought about 400 policy holders from another firm. These people have not had any contact or service for at least 2 years and up to 20 years in some cases. When they come to the meeting with me they are not happy due to the lack of service from the previous advisor but do want to discuss what they have previously set up. How do I commence the meeting to acknowledge the neglect and ensure them that I will be discussing the account that they still have with me now?

Can you let me know if what I said in the following situation was the best possible answer or if I should have given them more detail? I completed a Phone Consultation™ with a couple and it went well but they both indicated that they are not sure how the Financial Road Map Interview™ will apply to them. They just recently retired and they seem to keep going back to the statement that this Values-Based Financial Planning™ process applies to younger folks and not them. They are in their early 60's. She has skimmed the book I sent, and he has not. I did explain how ongoing monitoring of their financial house would be beneficial from a pro-active standpoint but I'm reluctant to go into too many details until they actually come into my office for their complete their Financial Road Map Interview™.

Would you go through some of your thought processes as you decide whether or not to introduce the Quality of Life Enhancer Exercise® during the Phone Consultation™?

I am in a number of organizations; Rotary, Chamber, other service-type clubs. I have conducted a number of Financial Road Map® Phone Consultations and some in-person meetings with the people in these groups. However, there are a number of chamber members I have never met. There are some other service club members with whom I have never had a meaningful, important, significant and compelling conversation. Prior to the last academy I had scheduled time on my calendar to call all the chamber members and self-refer. My coach suggested I need to be calling people whom I have met in person and with whom I have had a meaningful conversation and I agree. He also suggested that I go get involved in things I am passionate about where people have money. Our community is mostly a retirement community and they play dominos, bridge, and golf, and attend social clubs and service clubs. I am not passionate about most of these things and a number of the clubs are age restricted to those of senior age. My coach also suggested that I look into Facebook & LinkedIn, but most of our base is retired, and a number of them don't even have a Facebook page. Some barely do email and some don't even own a computer. I want and am willing to GO GET CLIENTS, but I am really struggling with who, where, when to go to self-refer and get clients.

I completed a self-referral with a prospect. My Admin Manager has mailed out the required 8 Values Based Financial Planning™ newsletters and I scheduled the Phone Consultation. When I called the prospect for our scheduled Phone Consultation they had to reschedule. My Admin. Manager stopped sending the Values Based Financial Planning™ newsletters after we mailed 8 out. I have now been calling the prospect again to reschedule the Phone Consultation. My question is should we continue to mail the Values Based Financial Planning™ newsletters beyond the 8 issues and include your new letter (which outlines I will contact them to schedule 20 minute Phone Consultation) that accompanies it until the Phone Consultation is rescheduled?

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