Questions advisors ask

How do I figure out what makes my advisory firm different?

How do I figure out what makes my advisory firm different?

How do I figure out what makes my advisory firm different?

Ask your clients. Find out what was going on when they started looking, what almost stopped them, and how they describe you to a friend. Your clients can see what you can't. Then put what you hear into one sentence everyone at the firm says.

Ask your clients. Find out what was going on when they started looking, what almost stopped them, and how they describe you to a friend. Your clients can see what you can't. Then put what you hear into one sentence everyone at the firm says.

By Josh Passler, former financial advisor. Published

Why it’s hard to see

You’re too close to it. It’s hard to read the label from inside the jar. Your clients can read it.

Start with the proof you have

Most firms already have it. Twenty years with one kind of client. A planning process with a name. A line from a client. It’s usually one scroll down, on the About page, or nowhere a prospect will see it.

Ask your team separately

At one seven-person firm, we asked each person who the firm serves and why clients pick it. We got seven different answers. The firm thought it needed a new look. It needed one answer.

How we do it

Unrealized Gain™ takes about three weeks. We scan your website, interview you and your team, and talk to three to five of your clients for twenty minutes each. You approve the words before any design starts.

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Cover your logo. Could your homepage belong to the firm down the street?

Cover your logo. Could your homepage belong to the firm down the street?

Cover your logo. Could your homepage belong to the firm down the street?

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