I am scheduling a Financial Road Map® Old World New World™ meeting with a very busy client and the only way to do Financial Road Map® is at his place of work which I know is not the best. Would you tell them I only meet at my office and risk the chance of the client saying no?

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Last updated: 20 Nov, 2019

An Ideal Client meets with you in your office 3 or 4 times per year. If they can’t do that – for any reason – they are not Ideal Clients.

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