Insights

Growing your firm

Where clients actually come from, what your firm is worth, when to raise fees, and how to be findable by the people you want.

Practice growth

A name is not a succession plan →

Three decisions get made at once, and firms that treat them as one postpone all three.

Marketing

A niche does not shrink your market →

It reduces the number of people you compete with for each prospect.

Marketing

Nobody hires you for your market opinion →

Most advisors get nothing from it. Usually the approach, not the channel.

Practice growth

Segment by what it takes →

Two clients with identical assets can differ five-fold in cost to serve.

Practice growth

Setting a minimum →

The clearest statement a firm makes about who it is for.

Growth

What your firm is actually worth →

A multiple is an output. What a buyer prices is decided years earlier.

Practice growth

When to raise your fees →

A schedule unchanged for a decade is a real-terms cut delivered annually.

Practice growth

Where clients actually come from →

Everyone says referrals, then cannot name the source of their last ten.

Practice growth

You are buying relationships →

What changes hands is a set of relationships that can decline to come with you.

Practice growth

Your first hire is not an advisor →

Most principals hire an advisor because that is what they are. It is usually wrong.

Marketing

Your website has ten seconds →

If a stranger cannot tell it is for them, nothing further down matters.

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