But what about YOUR taxes? Yes, you. The advisor! Running a financial advisory business can be complicated and you get paid weirdly. #FACTS

We are stepping away from the S2S Framework this week, because the end of the year is coming, and we’ve got a small window of time to maximize your own tax savings before the end of the year. 

If you’re anything like me, the end of the year was all about the clients. Scrambling to get their Roth conversions done, tax harvesting, QCDs, and all the things. My own taxes were in the back of my mind, but everyone else came first. I did an episode a few months ago with a tax strategist that works with your clients… but what about a tax advisor for advisors!? Well, today I am going to introduce you to my friend Catherine. Her CPA firm specializes in doing tax strategy and advice for financial advisors. 

In this episode, we’re digging into:  

• Common Tax Mistakes Financial Advisors Make—and How to Avoid Them
• Year-End Tax Strategies: How Advisors Can Maximize Savings Before December 31st
• What is a Healthy Profit Margin for an Advisory Business?
• The Power of Proactive Tax Planning for your Firm - What A CPA Relationship Should Look Like

This episode is just for you, Advisors. An opportunity to take a step back and make sure you are taking care of your own business and your own strategy.

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LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:

Connect with Catherine here! 

Catherine’s Website   dominiones.com 

Watch Catherine’s Podcast here!

Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!

Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE!

Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!

Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!

Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!

Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!

Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

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It’s Week 3 of the Systems to Scale Framework™ Podcast Series. As we move through the different levels of this roadmap, we’re divining into ALL the systems and micro systems that you need to create within your financial services business. It’s hard to believe we’re halfway through!

In Week 3…it’s all about creating processes for ATTRACTING your ideal client avatar and making it EASY for them to choose to do business with you.

This week we’ll talk about: 

1. Productizing your offerings (How to package and price your services)
2. Building out your “How Story” (Free Download!)
3. Updating your brand story across all marketing channels
4. Creating social media starts based off your brand pillars and how story
5. Getting started in video!!!!

Don’t forget to download the Systems to Scale Framework™ HERE! You don’t even need to enter your email. It’s just yours. From me. Because I want you to have the step-by-step to building a business and a life that you love!

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LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:

Sign Up for the Systems to Scale Group Coaching & Mastermind Here!

Episode #052: Are You Confusing Your Clients? Focusing Your Planning Options to Reduce Indecision

Episode #062 (and Download!): Systematizing Your Planning Process & "How Story" on Get Advisor Fit w/ Olivia Luper

Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!

Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE!

Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!

Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!

Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!

Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!

Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.com

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Each week I recap the implementable ideas from this week's full-length podcast.  Consider me the accountability partner you didn't ask for, but always needed!

Here are the Action Items from Tuesday's podcast: How to Create Your Planning Process, Client Service Model, and Client Experience Process - Level 2 of the Systems to Scale Framework


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LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:
Download the Systems to Scale Framework Here!

Book Recommendation: Built to Sell by John Warrilow

Episode #022: Create a KILLER Client Experience that Turns Prospects into Clients and Clients into Referral-Generating Machines with Guests Ben & Jenna Laws

Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!

Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE!

Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!

Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!

Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!

Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!

Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.com

Looking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!

It’s Week 2 of the Systems to Scale Framework™ Podcast Series. As we move through the different levels of this roadmap, we’re divining into ALL the systems and micro systems that you need to create within your financial services business. 

In Week 2…it’s all about creating some of my favorite processes.

This week we’ll talk about: 

1. Building out your start-to-finish financial planning process (my favorite!!!!)
2. How to distill these processes down into SOPs and get it documented
3. Designing your client experience process (another favorite!)
4. How to create SOPs and a documented client experience
5. Establishing your client service model 

These five steps are some of the most CRUCIAL processes for having a business that is scalable and organized. 

Don’t forget to download the Systems to Scale Framework™ HERE! 

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LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:

Sign Up for the Systems to Scale Group Coaching & Mastermind Here!

Book Recommendation: Built to Sell by John Warrilow

Episode #022: Create a KILLER Client Experience that Turns Prospects into Clients and Clients into Referral-Generating Machines with Guests Ben & Jenna Laws

Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!

Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE!

Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!

Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!

Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!

Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!

Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.com

Looking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!

This week we are kicking off a podcast series! As you may or may not know, I have a framework that I’ve developed over the last nearly two decades in this business that I use to help advisors streamline their businesses. I call it the Systems to Scale Framework™ . Essentially, I’ve taken all the big processes and micro processes and have organized them for you! This is the framework that we work off of for our group coaching program… which kicks off January 9th, 2025, and the signups for that start THIS WEEK! 

Essentially, there are 6 layers that these processes fall into, so I think of it like a cake. Each layer has its own ingredients and when you add all the right ingredients in the right order, layer after layer, you end up with a super sweet delicious business—and a life that you love. 

Over the next 6 weeks together we’re going to dive into each of these 6 levels. There are: Define, Create, Attract, Systematize, Scale, and Lead. Each week we’ll walk through the layer, and what’s involved, I’ll give you a roadmap to build out that level. 

In today’s episode, I describe each of the 6 levels of the System to Scale Framework™ and we’ll dive right into the first level… DEFINE. Throughout this series, I’m throwing a bunch of resources, guides, templates, etc at you! These are some awesome resources to help you build out each of these levels in your business. 

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LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:

Join the Systems to Scale Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!

Episode #8: Elevate your Elevator Pitch & Worksheet - Here!
Episode #10: How to create a laser-focused marketing message that speaks directly to your ideal client & Workbook - Here!
Episode #30: How to add lighter fluid to all your conversations with Deirdre Van Nest - Here! 

Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!

Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE!

Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!

Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!

Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!

Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!

Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.com

Looking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!

Today, we’re diving into an easy, powerful, but often overlooked way to elevate your client relationships and set the tone for a successful new year—the New Year’s letter.

Really, Libby? A letter is going to make a difference? 

ABSOLUTELY, but the catch is you have to include the right things. 

It’s easy for clients to lose sight of all the work you do behind the scenes, but a well-crafted New Year’s letter can change that. In this episode, I’ll guide you through exactly what to include in a letter that not only recaps the services and support you provided over the past year, but also shows clients the value you bring to their lives.

Plus, we’ll cover how to preview upcoming changes and improvements in a way that builds excitement and trust. We want your clients to ooze with appreciation over 2025 and excitement for working with you in 2025!

In this episode we’ll cover: 

1. How to use an Impact Score to rate your Client Service Model. 
2. How to use this letter to reinforce the Behind-the-Scenes work that you do, reminding them of the value you bring
3. Set expectations and build excitement for 2025 and the changes that come along with a new year in your business
4. And, SO MUCH MORE!
   
   

Ready to take your client communications to the next level? I’ll share tips and resources to help you craft a New Year’s letter that’s personalized, impactful, and memorable. 

Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!

Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE!

Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!

Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!

Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!

Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!

Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.com

Looking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!

When I was running my practice, I dreamed of having a tax professional who would do actual tax strategy. Like WAY MORE than just getting behind my Roth conversions or more traditional ideas like QCDs, but someone that could actually sit down with my clients and tell them if they should buy their car through their business, tell them what type of entity they should be, help my boring W-2 clients find clever ways to strategize to save tax dollars well in advance of tax season, figure out a way for them to deduct their Starbucks obsession (and she shares this story in this episode), or if doing an AirBnB makes sense for their lake house… you know what I’m talking about a TAX STRATEGIST… not just a CPA. 

Enter, Shauna the Tax Goddess. Yes, that’s the name of her company and she’s known as the Tax Goddess because she is one of the most highly credentialed tax strategists in the United States. 

In this episode, Shauna gives us a glimpse into the world of tax strategy and how they help advisors’ clients get creative and save boatloads of tax dollars without getting into the gray area of the tax code.  

We get into: 

• How having deeper conversations leads to unique tax savings opportunities
• How to turn a hobby into a potential business for your clients
• What the IRS considers reasonable… and Shauna shares an example that might floor you as it did me!
• How tax strategy differs from tax preparation and basic tax ideas

If nothing else, you will be entertained by this episode!

Schedule a time to learn more about The Tax Goddess and what they can do for your clients! 

Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!

Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE!

Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!

Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!

Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!

Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!

Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.com

Looking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!

We’ve all had that day that you were SO BUSY, but at the end of the day looked back and realized that you didn’t actually do or complete any of the major things you needed to do. YET, you felt slammed all day! 

So here’s the questions we’re going to seek answers to today… 

1. How do you ACTUALLY get things done in your time blocks without getting distracted? 
2. What do you do if your energy is off and you just don’t feel like doing that thing you had scheduled? 
3. How do you manage your time when random tasks and crap just pop up in your business that you have to deal with? 
4. How do you not get sucked into the vortex that is random to dos, being all over the place, and juggling all the balls? 

I mention it all the time–that to scale your business you have got to scale yourself first…. These are the questions I hear from advisors in our coaching and these are certain questions I had for myself that I had to test, try, tweak, and seek out answers to for myself in my own business. 

In today’s episode, I am going to share EIGHT tips & tricks I uncovered over my nearly 2 decades in the business that worked for me when it came to actually getting done what I was supposed to… when I was supposed to do it. 

This includes a rapid-fire power hour, iron butt time, and the Pomodoro method. Intrigued? Let's go… 

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Links from Today’s Episode:

Grab the guided Brain Dump PDF here!

Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!

Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE!

Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!

Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!

Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!

Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!

Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.com

Looking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!

Most advisors treat college planning as a straightforward math problem: calculate tuition, project savings, and move on. However, the reality is that *real* college funding planning is much more complex, and those advisors who recognize this complexity stand out in their field.

In this episode we’ll share insights on: 

• What To Do Beyond Basic Calculations: College planning involves strategies that extend far beyond simple tuition calculations.
• College Planning Fintech: What tools should advisors be using AND staying way from
• Expertise: How does an advisor build expertise in this unique category
• Tactical Ideas: Ross shares several tactical ideas and strategies that you can start sharing with clients today
• Value Addition: Advisors can significantly enhance their value by engaging in more complex college planning. 

Join us as we welcome Ross Riskin, whom I am calling a college planning genius. Ross will guide us through advanced strategies to elevate your college planning game from ordinary to extraordinary.

Links from this episode:
AICCFC Main Website
Learn More About the CCFC Designation Program
Learn More About the AICCFC | XYPN LIVE Pre-Con Event
Connect with Ross Riskin 

Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!

Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE!

Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!

Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!

Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!

Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!

Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.com

Looking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!

The number one question I got from advisors for YEARS and still get today, is "Libby, HOW DID YOU GET IT ALL DONE IN 25-HRS a week? I’m over here drowning and i’m putting in double that!"
I feel that on so many levels because that was me early on.  

In today’s episode I’m going to drill down 16+ years of compressing a billion hours a week into just 25 and what I learned about designing the perfect schedule. 

This perfect schedule, or what I call a Model Week, is a schedule that you’ve designed, with intention, that suits your personality, for your business goals, with your energy levels, and your work/life balance objectives in mind. 

In this podcast Libby will cover:

• How to build and reiterate the perfect schedule for YOU!
• How to use your business goals and personal goals to drive your schedule
• Tips and tricks on how to build it around your energy levels and personality traits
• Uncovering what’s broken in your schedule and how to adjust it and play with it until it works just right

And, of course, I give you my template so that you can build your own model week! My goal is to help you not have to recreate the wheel… so use mine!

Check out The First 100 Days Course: The Advisor's Blueprint for a Remarkable Client Experience HERE!

Learn more about Asset-Map financial planning software HERE!

Learn more about our sponsor Beemo Automation HERE!

Learn more about the Group Coaching & Mastermind HERE!

Check out the Efficient Advisor YouTube Channel HERE!

Connect with Libby on LinkedIn HERE!

Successful businesses don’t get built alone. You need community! You need collaboration! Join us in The Efficient Advisor Community on Facebook.

Check out more FREE resources and our FREE video library at http://www.theefficientadvisor.com

Looking for all the resources from this episode? Check out this episode’s webpage for show notes, transcripts, downloads and more!