August 10, 2021
Best Practice - Future Proof Your Advisory Practice
Financial Advisors, you help clients plan for emergencies all day, every day. Have you thought of your own practice succession plan? If so, is it actually actionable? God forbid, something were to happen to you - can your successor step in your shoes and continue to help your clients without skipping a beat? It's hard […]
August 4, 2021
Best Practice - Filter Your Notes
Financial Advisors, information is key. But finding the right information at the right time is the ultimate productivity boost you can have for your practice. Naturally, there are plenty of places that client information resides today. Let's take an example of inefficiencies that are built into your practice today if you can't find the information […]
July 27, 2021
Best Practice - Fast Note Captures
Financial Advisors, you run a busy practice. What do you do when you need to write down a note? On paper? Post-it notes? In Microsoft Word? The problem with the above methods is that when you want to search for them, you are wasting your time. When your team needs the info, you will start […]
July 21, 2021
Best Practice - Immersive Meetings
Financial Advisors, during a meeting with a client or prospect, how do you explain complex topics? If you are like most advisors, you are drawing on paper. What if you could make it more immersive and interactive with the client? You can with Pulse360's built-in white boarding feature. You don't need to spend thousands upon […]
July 14, 2021
Best Practice - Cash Needs - Be Proactive
Financial Advisors, during a meeting with a client, you may discover a future cash need for the client. You capture details and also have an idea on which account you will take the funds from. When the time comes and the client calls you to request the funds - how fast can you pull that […]
July 7, 2021
Best Practice - Documenting your trades
Financial Advisors, you could just jot down your trades. However, if you could this in a systematic, scalable way it would be beneficial for your practice and clients. With Pulse360, there are at least 3 ways that you can input trade documentation and have that automatically create tasks and send the notes to Redtail CRM, […]
June 24, 2021
Best Practice - Find Next Meeting Discussion Points
Financial Advisors, remembering what you need to discuss for your clients at the next meeting can be stressful. Especially if you just store that information in your memory. As David Allen writes in his Getting Things Done book, the first step is to get the information out of our heads and into a reliable system. […]
June 17, 2021
Best Practice - Organize and find your handwritten notes
Financial Advisors, there are little things in your practice that waste a lot of time and also add a bit of frustration. For example, when you take handwritten notes, how do you find what you wrote in it again? Let's say a year from now you want to find the anniversary conversation that you had […]
June 9, 2021
Best Practice - Send Form CRS or ADV Part 2 automatically
Financial Advisors, you know how much time you waste when sending an email and have to find that PDF that you want to send to a prospect or a client. Or totally forgetting to send it entirely! Compliance will not exactly be ecstatic. Personally, I have forgotten to send that disclosure form or the attorney […]
June 2, 2021
Best Practice - Track Critical Investment Policy information
Financial Advisors, when it comes to investment policy statements or even just other critical investment information, having an organized system will help you and your practice. For example, if a client has a favorite stock, or has an external account, how are you tracking this today and importantly, how do you pull this up in […]
