What is the email template to send to the client after a Referral Conversation that the client can use as talking points when calling the person they referred to prepare them for my Follow-Up Phone Call?

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Last updated: 20 Nov, 2019

After the Referral Conversation at an Implementation or Progress Meeting, send an email with a summary of the Referral Conversation. In that summary will be a few key things that are important for your client to share with the referral during that introduction to you.

These key things are listed below: (Template for what you, the advisor, are emailing to your client for them to introduce you to their referral)

1. That you have asked me to send them a copy of Values-Based Financial Planning… no strings attached.
2. The reason you believe that their knowing me and about Values-Based Financial Planning will help have some positive impact on something that matters to them.
3. How knowing me, and about Values-Based Financial Planning, has impacted you by __________. (insert the earlier, deep emotional response from your client about the value to them)
4. That I am not trying to sell them anything.
5. Something favorable about my character or personality. (Not something about my technical ability as an advisor.)

Please review pages 5-6 of the Implementation Meeting Referral Conversation script and pages 5-7 pf the Progress Meeting Referral Conversation for more assistance.

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