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Help Pros Become Experts through Thought Leadership

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By Anthony Glomski and Russ Alan Prince
Your $5-Million High-Net-Worth Practice

An approach you can use and one that can strongly differentiate you from your competitors is to add value that helps the professionals reach their goals and become more successful. Some of the more viable approaches involve helping them become thought leaders and providing them with turnkey business development solutions.

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Adding value with thought leadership: Becoming a thought leader is one way just about any professional can become significantly more successful.
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Where to Find Wealthy Clients

executive on phone in officeFour steps to maximizing your referral network.

By Anthony Glomski and Russ Alan Prince
Your $5-Million High-Net-Worth Practice

Most professionals, including accountants, get most of their client referrals from satisfied clients. The complication is that if you want to work with wealthier clients, the likely best way to source them is from other professionals they are currently engaging.

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If you aim to work with the ultrawealthy and even the super-rich, be aware that as you move up the wealth hierarchy, they are less and less inclined to refer you to other people. It is something of a Catch-22. In general, the better you are, the more the very wealthy are disinclined to share. That is, they are less likely to refer you to their financial peers. Also, if you are maximizing your wealthy client relationships, there is hesitancy by these clients to make referrals because of a strong preference for extreme confidentiality (if not secrecy).
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How Everyone Can Win

High-net-worth business development in four steps.

By Anthony Glomski and Russ Alan Prince
Your $5-Million High-Net-Worth Practice

When it comes to working with the wealthy, all your expertise and all your firm’s capabilities and all the other top-notch experts you can bring to the table are “givens.” Put another way … they are table stakes, and you must have table stakes to play. You absolutely need a top-of-the-line high-net-worth practice.

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As for your expertise, if you have a wealthy entrepreneur who wants to sell her business in a couple of years, there are some ways to mitigate capital gains and estate taxes. Tax mitigation could come from the use of selected trusts or establishment of an offshore pension plan. The fact that you can do all these things does not inherently differentiate you from another quality accountant and many other high-caliber professionals. It most likely will separate you from many possible competitors, but they are not really the competition.
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Five Questions for Your High-Net-Worth Practice

And four qualities of these wealthy clients.

By Anthony Glomski and Russ Alan Prince
Your $5-Million High-Net-Worth Practice

By design, the clientele of an accounting firm’s high-net-worth practice is the wealthy, defined as having a net worth of $10 million or more.

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We know that with clients at this level of net worth, you can indeed build a $5 million high-net-worth practice.

Admittedly, the $10-million criterion is somewhat arbitrary. But in extensively researching the wealthy, coupled with “in the trenches experience,” clients with a net worth of $10 million or more consistently prove very rewarding for most accounting firms.
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Take Time to Tune Your Practice Goals

Businessman pole vaulting toward his goalThree guidelines for setting financial targets.

By Anthony Glomski and Russ Alan Prince
Your $5-Million High-Net-Worth Practice

The accounting business was changing even before the onset of the COVID-19 crisis.

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Three of the factors that are possibly impinging on your ability to be as successful as you want include:

  • Significantly increased competition: From more accountants to other professionals encroaching on some of the expertise accountants provide, there is greater competition for the better clients.

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Nurture Referrals from Wealthy Clients

Female executive greeting coupleSix steps to maximizing opportunities.

By Anthony Glomski and Russ Alan Prince
Your $5-Million High-Net-Worth Practice

As part of the Discovery process, you are ascertaining who your wealthy clients can refer to you. In empirical study after study, accountants (as well as other professionals) say that they get most of their client referrals from their current clients. They also say that this happens because they do an excellent job for their clients.

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Another insight we find in the research is that very few professionals are doing much to foster getting referrals from their highly satisfied clients.
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What Your Wealthy Clients Aren’t Telling You

https://cpatrendlines.com/2020/10/14/maximizing-wealthy-client-relationships/You need to listen between the lines.

By Anthony Glomski and Russ Alan Prince
Your $5-Million High-Net-Worth Practice

Take a moment to consider:

How hard is it to find and bring on a wealthy client?

What does it take to keep a wealthy client highly satisfied and doing more business with you?

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It commonly takes a lot to win a wealthy individual or family as a client. It takes a lot of effort to keep the wealthy as clients, let alone do more business with you. Not only must you deliver top-quality expertise, but you often need to create a sensational experience. You must build a high level of rapport. Yet, a great many accountants are not maximizing their relationships with their wealthy clients.
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Here’s Where Your Next $5 Million Is Coming From

Businessman working netbook outdoors, wearing sunglassesThe three essential components.

By Anthony Glomski and Russ Alan Prince
Your $5-Million High-Net-Worth Practice

A lot goes into building a $5 million high-net-worth practice.

It is a given that you will need wealthy clients. For most accountants, most of these wealthy clients are very likely to be successful business owners. But that is not always the case. You can potentially achieve your financial end goals with wealthy inheritors, for example.

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Your commitment to becoming wealthier, your integrity, and doing the best possible job for your wealthy clients all play into your success. All of this is not enough. You need more. Consider the following equation:
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