Your path to growth depends on following up and following through.
After you’ve successfully hosted your tax-efficient retirement seminar, how do you get the attendees into your office? Your next focus should be on continuing to demonstrate your value. As much as you want to get prospects to invest in you, at this point, it is crucial that you avoid pushy sales practices and focus on adding value for the prospective client instead. Follow-up and follow-through correctly, and you’ll earn their business for years to come.
Hereare some tips for turning seminar attendees into clients.
Atthe beginning of your seminar, distribute evaluation cards. Ask attendees torate your presentation and gather their name and contact information. Leave a spacefor questions with a note offering a free consultation. Attendees who turn intheir card with a question are qualified leads to follow up with and haveprovided helpful information for making your first conversation a success.
Soonafter your event, follow up with attendees at the contact information theyprovided. If you don't get in touch, commit to following up once more.Aggressive follow up can tarnish your ability to be perceived as a trustedprofessional advisor and not a sales person, so now is not the time to berelentless.
Whenyou call, use these three phases to move a prospect to action:
1. Open the conversation by answering their question from the evaluation card.
2. Transition to a conversation about the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on retirement income streams.
3. Conclude by suggesting that they set up an appointment to discuss their situation further, since there are simply too many interactions between assets to discuss via telephone.
Addattendees who don’t set up appointments to your newsletter list or dripcampaign to stay top-of-mind with prospects.
Two weeks out, send your prospects:
Two daysout, prepare your client packet:
Building a strong connection is the most important part of on-boarding a new client. They need to trust you. New clients may be skeptical of how much value you can offer, or they may already have ideas about what's best for their financial plan. In your first meeting, make a point to listen more and talk less. Discover their goals, successes and challenges. Let them ask questions and answer them honestly. Again, you are building a relationship, not “closing a deal.” You build trust with this mantra: helping, not hustling.
Since they were initially attracted to yourservices from your seminar, makesure you address how you can help them with tax-efficiency in retirement planning. Reiteratethat even with the recent Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, middle income retirees can face federal tax rates as high as49.95% oneach additional withdrawal from a retirement account.
Login to Tax Clarity® usingthe login credentials that you used to access the PowerPoint for your seminar.You can run an example case that your prospective client can relate to – showthem how their income streams could interact and negatively impact theirretirement strategy. And then show them how, with your expertise, you can helpbuild a strategy that is tax-smart, keeping more money in their hands.
Theclient-friendly Tax Map graphic clearly shows how ordinary and capital incomesinteract and the value you can add by helping them make better incomewithdrawal decisions.
Run a Customized Report in Tax Clarity
You can even enter the information from their1040 into the software (it takes about five minutes) and run an analysis oftheir current situation. The report will help you quickly and easily identifyplaces where you can add money to their retirement. Simply click the PDF tababove the Tax Map and generate a customized PDF. Show the potential clienttheir personalized report during your first meeting or review the custom reportin your second meeting, after they become a client. The client-facing report isa great take-home document that demonstrates very clear ways that you can addimmense value to your client’s retirement plan.
Add Value at Every Step
Provide even more insightful information on the topic that attracted prospects to your seminar in the first place, and tailor the information to the potential client’s specific situation. This will help them see the unique value you can deliver.
Written by: Lauren Laferla, PR & Content Marketing Manager at Covisum
Lauren is a content marketing enthusiast with a love for storytelling - on camera, in writing and through others. She has a robust communications background that includes: public relations, content creation, internal communications, digital marketing and copy editing. She is driven and motivated, Lauren holds a bachelor's degree in English and is an avid reader.
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