May 01, 2019 

How to go from $500k revenue to 1 Million as a financial advisor 

How do you go from where you are now, to where you want to be? How can financial advisors generating $500k of income get to one million plus revenue? I will give you a hint. It’s not about time management. It is also not about products or services. It’s about your path to success, are you on it?

What is your path to success?

For financial advisors struggling to grow, they are on the path to frustration and as one advisor told me, chaotic. How can you go from $500k in revenue to over 1 million? What are the keys to your path to success? Let’s examine your current path?

Ideal clients defined

Do you have a clear definition of what an ideal client is? How much revenue do you want to generate for every ideal client, family or household? Is it $5000 or $10,000 or $20,000 or more? Defining what your ideal revenue is first. Then plan on delivering more value to those clients that pay you the most, and you will gain confidence by delivering more to your best clients.

What value add did you deliver last year?

What are the value-added items did you deliver to your best clients last year? Did you deliver a comprehensive estate plan in writing? Did you build a legacy binder for them, or do a beneficiary audit? Did you give more comprehensive planning and advice, or was it all about performance? What are you going to deliver of great value this year? “Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity. Deliver more value, means you are worth more. This is how you are going to go from generating $5000 per client to eventually $10,000 to $20,000 or more revenue to you. ( Note I am not saying charging fees, depending on your compensation, it is the revenue generated by assets, fee-based commissions or other methods. This is up to you and your firm.)

Measure your revenue

The number on thing advisors measure is their overall revenue. Divide your total revenue by the number of clients, and you have your average revenue per client. Now measure your top 10 revenue per client. This will help you determine your ideal revenue per ideal client.

Measure number of ideal clients

How many ideal clients do you have now generating your ideal revenue per client? If your ideal revenue per client is $10,000 and you have 20 clients paying that, how many could you manage in a calendar year, if that is all you did? If eventually all of your time was spent on ideal clients and prospects, how many could you manage in a calendar year delivering more value to each year? Usually the number is 100 or less. Is this the path you are currently on? Or are you just getting more and more clients, and less and less time?

Steps on the path

So let’s focus on the path to success. First focusing on delivering more value to your best clients. Let’s say you have 50 clients generating $10,000. Then acquiring more ideal clients where the revenue is more. Let’s say you acquire 10 new ideal clients per year at $20,000 each.  Now in 5 years you have 50 clients generating $1 million in revenue. You end up with less clients and more revenue. Is this the path you are on?

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Grant Hicks, CIM, is President of Advisor Practice Management and co-author of “Guerrilla Marketing For Financial Advisors” 1st and 2nd edition. www.advisorpracticemanagement.com for speaking, workshops or coaching, contact Grant at grant@ghicks.com

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“ Helping Financial Advisors take action, to create 100 comprehensive financial plans for their clients”. My mission if you choose to accept it is “ To help advisors to create 10,000 comprehensive financial plans for people”.  Ask your clients and prospects this question " What does a comprehensive financial plan mean to you? Let me know if I can help you grow your practice. 

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Enthusiastically yours,

Grant Hicks, CIM, National Director Practice Management
Advisor Practice Management
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