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Summary: With smartphones and tablets ubiquitous, apps are becoming more important. But as a financial advisor, unless you are looking for another iteration of Angry Birds, how do you decide which apps are worth downloading to make doing business easier?
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Summary: Advisors think they're personally successful -- but they think their industry stinks. Those were two key findings of Pershing's second annual study of advisory success, unveiled here last week during the company's Insite conference.
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Summary: Many financial professionals have been misled when it comes to being found on Google. High cost search engine optimization strategies just aren't paying off. Financial firms that have artificially worked their way up to Page 1 of Google search results are either not there today or won't be there for long.
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Summary: Taking their cue from the medical field, advisors are turning to residency programs to help bring new blood into an aging workforce. Instead of recruiting young professionals with a couple of years’ experience selling insurance or mutual funds, firms are hiring total rookies and giving them on-the-job training.
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Summary:Practice-management literature directs financial advisors to leverage their time more effectively through the use of interns and/or the hiring of younger planners.However, it seldom provides advice on the process of finding the next generation of financial advisors. The challenge is always where to find good candidates, how to keep a talented young advisor busy with productive work, or why clients might be interested in a firm's hiring processes.
