This is the best of the Maximum Advisor Podcast for Season 4. We heard more real advisors' stories about going solo and succession planning. We also heard insider tips for writing stellar content, starting a podcast the easy way. Plus, Hot Seats was introduced to live workshop real questions from advisors looking to grow their practice. To learn more about the podcast and read the show notes, visit: http://maximumadvisor.com/042

Join host Chip Munn in this episode of the Maximum Advisor podcast as he sits down with Adam Cmejla, founder of Integrated Planning & Wealth Management, to discuss his client waiting list and how he got there. Adam works almost exclusively with optometrists that are within five years of selling their practice to a private equity firm. Talk about a niche!

Chip and Andrea discuss Ironstone’s Fundamental 4™ blueprint, a system that guides financial advisory professionals and their teams to grow purposefully, operate efficiently, and leave the next generation with a wealth of knowledge to continue the business legacy. Read the full show notes at https://maximumadvisor.com/040

Developing valuable and relevant content, including the perfect pitch of who you are and what you do, helps facilitate new connections and relationships by being seen as an expert in the field. It also helps get your message out to reach the right potential clients.  Chip and Amanda highlight the importance of reaching an audience beyond your centers of influence with partnerships, collaboration, alliances, and media. This approach helps establish you as an expert in the field to build a quality niche. Read the full show notes at maximumadvisor.com

In this episode of the Maximum Advisor podcast, host Chip Munn is joined by Adam Goetz, a partner at Burstin & Goetz in Pittsburg and a representative with Mass Mutual. Learn how thoughtful succession planning transformed Adam’s business into its thriving form today. Chip and Adam also discuss

• the challenges new advisors face in the financial planning business
• humble beginnings in the financial planning business and what enabled them to flourish into their current roles
• how to grow a practice inorganically by having the right conversations with potential acquisition partners

Chip and Adam provide the valuable inside scoop on how they approach and manage relationships before and after a practice acquisition and how it can help grow your practice, too.

Julie’s self-published book, More Than Cashflow, became an Amazon bestseller. She realized the value of self-publishing and launched her own company to help others write, self-publish, and sell their books. Tune in as she shares the self-publishing process, useful tips from an industry insider, and how to utilize self-publishing to help grow your financial advisor practice. Show notes available at https://maximumadvisor.com/

A financial advisor who started his firm over a year ago is struggling with the servicing aspect of his business. He’s found a niche and a business model that works, but he’s uncertain how often clients need servicing once they’ve been onboarded. He’s fighting with a lack of servicing structure and a system that keeps existing clients happy and new ones coming in. What solutions can Chip offer to develop an effective client service routine?

In this episode of the Maximum Advisor podcast, host Chip Munn is joined by Ashley Barnett, an expert in website content creation and blog management. She and Chip discuss why publishing original web content is vital for a financial advisor to attract their ideal client and build their practice. Don't miss this episode as they workshop HOW to write a blog post. Check out the show notes here: http://maximumadvisor.com/035

What can hosting a podcast do for your financial advisor practice? Benjamin Brandt wondered the same thing as he was looking to grow his financial advisor practice. In less than five years after starting his retirement planning podcast, Benjamin has attracted an audience of 40,000 listeners a month (all of whom are also clients or potential clients). See full show notes at https://maximumadvisor.com/034

Listeners of the Maximum Advisor podcast know that there’s no better place to learn how to grow a financial advisor practice than right here. In this episode, we have an advisor in the Hot Seat, a special new series on Maximum Advisor that guarantees to take on some of the most challenging problems from financial advisors— and delivers powerful solutions from host Chip Munn. Listen in as Chip provides his tried and true methods for taking a financial advisor business to new heights and how you can do the same with yours. 

A Certified Financial Planner™ takes the Hot Seat and presents Chip with a challenge: How can he modernize his practice from its insurance-business roots and clientele into a flourishing fee-based financial advisor practice?