If you’ve been an advisor for any length of time, you’ve certainly heard these famous words from Theodore Roosevelt:
“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
Which is basically just a catchy way of saying what all advisors already know:
Trust is crucial.
In fact, trust is the foundation of success in financial advice.
You need trust to get prospects to become clients.
And you need trust to get clients to follow through and do the things you ask them to do.
Without trust, you have no business.
But, if you know how to consistently build trust with both prospects and clients, it will take your relationships AND your business to places very few things can.
There’s only one problem.
Everybody knows how important trust is. But, very few people know how the secrets to consistently building high-trust relationships.
Fortunately, Herman Brodie does. And, in this episode, we discuss types of trust, benefits of trust, and specific ways proven to consistently accelerate trust with prospects and long-time clients.
Consider this the ultimate guide for everything you need to know about trust.
Things You’ll Learn
- The 3 different types of trust
- How to continue building trust with long-term clients
- Building trust in new, mature, and long-term relationships
- The only type of trust that serves as a competitive advantage
- Why vulnerability is crucial and how to comfortably display it
- Why you must understand the relationship between trust and risk
- The intangible factors that lead investors to choose asset managers
- The non-obvious benefits trust has on your clients and your business
- The “Trust Game:” The role of similarity when it comes to building trust
- How much our feelings towards someone are determined by the “soft factors”
- The difference between the tangible and intangible factors driving decision-making
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