Your Internal Branding Affects Your External Branding
June 6, 2012 by Simon · Leave a Comment
The title and the content of this blog are my interpretations and the result of me attending Neil Wernick’s The Next Step Of The Journey Presentation at the Lincoln Investment 2012 National Advisor Summit in Philadelphia May 30 – June 1, 2012.
Neil Wernick is the VP, Chief Marketing Officer for Lincoln Investment.
The Lincoln Investment theme of the conference aligned with the Lincoln Investment brand of Embrace The Future.
Neil’s message included the following …
“There is who you really are”.
“There is who you think you are & There is what you would like people to think of you”.
Neil offered that the outcome of the Lincoln Investment 2012 National Advisor Summit was to help financial advisors to “close the gap” between:
Who you really are
Versus
Who you think you are
&
What you would like people to think of you
Closing the gap will help a financial advisor to improve the communication of their brand awareness.
This will also help financial advisors to elevate their brand awareness both from within themselves and with their clients, communicating that financial advisors are among a team of people in the profession of helping people.
Accelerate Your Healing
October 6, 2009 by Simon · Leave a Comment
I’ve had the odd client with the flu over the course of the past five weeks. Not sure if it is the H1 N1.
I remind them that they have an inherent and powerful immune system that works 24 hours a day without them even thinking about it and it is my belief that they can magnify their immune system’s powers by consciously triggering and magnifying its power.
I talked with Chris Barrow in the UK a couple weeks back about what’s going on over there.
The dental clients that he works with and the financial advisors that he knows are having excellent years because they have a vision, business plan and goals while the average person is struggling.
I asked if he was noticing a lot of people in airports wearing viral masks as I am curious as I am traveling a lot over the next two months and wanted to find out what the lay of land looks like.
“We were wearing viral masks two months ago and they have all been thrown away … nobody is dying, if a person has a healthy immune system and they use common sense they will be OK.
We have just gone through the anniversary of the start of the Second World War.
Everyone thought that we were going to be bombed and gassed.
The government shipped over a million children from the cities to board with families out in the country and issued gas masks to everyone in the cities.
By December, the children had all found their way home and the gas masks where all in the rubbish.”
False Expectations Appearing Real
September 30, 2009 by Simon · 1 Comment
You have no doubt heard this example of an acronym for FEAR;
- F alse
- E xpectations
- A ppearing
- R eal
As long as you give tse false expectations power by focusing on them, they will become real as The Law Of Attraction is absolute, you attract what you focus on or as John Kehoe said; “thoughts are real forces”.
How can one focus on there vision when dominated by what might happen?
Where there is no vision, the people perish. – Proverbs 29:18
Everyone has a unique vision or calling and this is unavoidable. You have two choices; fulfill your unique vision or calling or become the living dead, living your life and business life, day to day just hoping to get by. Why do we avoid our unique vision or calling?
- F alse
- E xpectations
- A ppearing
- R eal
Fearing that the granddaddy of all unmet needs, that the unmet need of worthiness and our unique vision or calling will not be good enough.
One thing to know about fear; “Fear reaches only to the point when the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision.” – Paulo Coelho – The Fifth Mountain
You have three choices, to hope for; to Thrive, Deny or Survive. You will create whatever you focus on.
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” – Oscar Wilde
The 34 Step Marketing Funnel – Revisited September 2009
September 23, 2009 by Simon · Leave a Comment
With the DNC List Legislation (Do Not Call List ), we all have to think of more creative ways to eliminate cold calls while working with niche marketing at the same time.
Yes this list looks intimidating. It looked that way to me five years ago. There is an expression that; “If they can’t find you on Google, you don’t exist”.
To get your name to the top page on Google, all you have to is point number 13 on the following list and have the articles publish in the publications that your niche is reading.
- Choose A Niche
- Find A Problem That Needs Solving
- Create A Solution Through Your Products & Services
- Brand Your Solution
- Create An Introductory Letter & Product Sales Pages
- Under Promise & Over Deliver To Your Clients
- Ask For Referrals
- Receive And Publish Client Testimonials
- Create A Referral Card
- Create A Web Site
- Publish An E-Newsletter
- Publish A Blog
- Write Articles
- Create Press Releases
- Master Viral Marketing
- Create A Speaking Folio
- Create A Show Reel
- Create CDs & DVDs
- Create Blogs
- Speak To 50,000 People Within The Niche At Association And Corporate Events
- Receive And Publish Speaking Testimonials
- Prospect Speaking Opportunities
- Get Published By A National Publication Within The Niche
- Exhibit At Tradeshows
- Write & Publish A Book
- Offer The First Three Chapters Of Your Book For FREE
- Strengthen Your Team
- Create Relationships With Centers Of Influence
- Develop Strategic Alliance Partners
- Attract Sponsors
- Integrate Facebook, Linked In, MySpace, Twitter With Your Blog
- Make A “knock ‘em dead” FREE Offer To Become A Client For The First Time
- View Your Niche From 35,000 Feet – Don’t Be Afraid To Travel Afar To Your Prospects
- Market, Market & Market Your Products & Services… And Never, Never Do A Cold Call Ever Again.
Getting Over Your August Appointment Setting Roadblock
July 30, 2009 by Simon · Leave a Comment
John, It’s Simon from XYZ Financial and I know you are probably busy with the summer … we have been in touch about building your wealth and protecting your assets and I know that this is important to you so given we are in the lazy days of summer it may be a good time for us to get together or if not, book an appointment now for September so that it does not fall through the cracks.
Which works best for you?
- August or September?
- Mornings or Afternoons?
– You get the point.
Begin with a Clear mind.
A Clear mind is what our coaching clients experience because they are free of The Unmet Needs Disease.
With high energy and practiced high energy script right out of the gate you will fill you book with appointments and hit the ground running in September.
Click Prospecting While Peaceful, Placid & Private for additional insight.
Working Weekend Confession
July 11, 2009 by Simon · Leave a Comment
It’s Saturday morning and I’m confessing that I’m likely going to be working Saturday and Sunday mornings/early afternoons and I’m just taking a moment to celebrate the successes that we are experiencing … at the same time, this writing will spur me on as it is sunny and going to be near 30° C today.
I’m working completing a workshop, PowerPoint, workshop manual and coaching gym for delivery on July 16th.
Even though I’m working the weekend, I’m truly inspired for a number of reasons;
- Laura’s Mom Helen is here for a weekend visit
- I laid off of writing what is going on with us in business and personal blogs for the entire week and all the business blogs are already written for next week
- A Staycation from June 29th – July 3rd and enjoyed; barbeques, boating on Sprout Lake, cycling, mini golf, peace of mind, puppy class, walking Shadow, visiting my Mom Irene and yoga – click here for Staycation Pics
- Completely on track with our vision
- Ended the week by Emptying My Head and office cleanup
- Robert Gignac of Wealth Is A State Of Mind is coming to visit us on Monday afternoon and a messy office would not do
- Bob personally referred us to the MDRT for Vancouver 2010
- Jeff Comiskey of Succession Strategies Inc. and Advocis London Chapter President referred us to six other Ontario Advocis Chapters
- An exceptional week of coaching calls and we are doing more and more consulting work
- Reminded to re-visit Dragon Voice Recognition Software after putting it aside five years ago … this is spurred on with receiving a Coaching Call Client Prep Form from a client that was done in Dragon
- Reminded to re-visit Skype after putting it aside a few years ago after receiving a client call from Europe
- A new client started
- Financial Advisor Speaking Update sent to Life Insurance and MGA Companies
- Booked Advocis Trail, BC and London, ON for financial advisor public speaking
- A July 15th breakfast meeting booked in Vancouver with two COI’s from a national financial advisor firm that can sponsor financial advisor public speaking, workshops, manager coaching and financial advisor coaching
Best of all, the work on completing the workshop, powerpoint, workshop manual and coaching gym for delivery on July 16th which we are doing with Kim Black, our Coaching IT Master is preparing the foundation for us to launch a public financial advisor coaching gym that includes;
- Unlimited E-Mail Access to Simon Reilly
- E-Lessons
- Audio Lessons
- Monthly ¼ Hour Phone Call with Simon Reilly that can be booked using and automated appointment booking on-line software
- Monthly group coaching calls
- E-Coaching Follow Up to your E-Lessons, E-Mails and Progress Reports – this means I am with you every step of the way reading your E-Lessons, E-Mails and Progress Reports and Responding with; Articles, E-Lessons, Feedback, Forms, Insights and Tough Love
- Weekly Progress Report ( Automated )
- A Private On Line Forum
We are hoping to launch a Free Beta Version in our July E-Newsletter for the month of August to create a September Strong Start.
Referrals Revisited
July 8, 2009 by Simon · Leave a Comment
I grew up in a household that believed in taking care of what matters … I believe I have a fiduciary responsibility to help my clients to grow their investments and to insure that their investments are well taken care of … at the same time I believe I have a fiduciary responsibility to take care of their family, friends and associates …
- If you were going to describe me and my products and services to someone, what would you say?
- What do you like best about working with me?
- What do we do for you that you didn’t expect?
- What can we do to improve my service?
- Who can you introduce us to that will appreciate the same kind of products and services?
- Wait 3 seconds …
- Do you know what, most of the time when I ask this question, a person doesn’t come to mind but when I call back in ten days to two weeks, someone always crosses a person’s path.
- Is it OK if I call you back in ten days to two weeks to follow up?
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Dates for 2012 TBA - stay tuned!
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Now Reading
Planned books:
- Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Book Of Air And Shadows: A Novel by Michael Gruber
Current books:
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Recent books:
- The Brave: A Novel by Nicholas Evans
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Zafon
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson
