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Four steps to take.

By Anthony Glomski and Russ Alan Prince

The Everyone Wins Process is at the center of how you can maximize wealthy client relationships. Most often, this is a function of aligning interests. The process is also core to generating new business from these clients and other professionals. The ability to add value often plays a significant role in being referred by other professionals to their best clients.

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At the same time, there are many different ways to frame your conversations based on the self-interests of the wealthy to optimize their financial worlds and accelerate results. Stress testing is one of those ways.
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Plus three best practices.

By Anthony Glomski and Russ Alan Prince

Accounting firms adopt one of two business models when it comes to offering financial products for fees or commissions.

Either they do or they do not.

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A fancier way of saying this is that an accounting firm has adopted a product-neutral or product-inclusive financial product business model.

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Their characteristics include three drivers of exceptionalism.

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

When it comes to their financial and personal lives, the wealthy are increasingly attracted to the family office model. At the very high end, there is a strong preference to create a single-family office. For the wealthy for whom the costs of a single-family office are unreasonable or do not want the management or oversight responsibilities, there are multi-family offices and virtual family offices.

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With the family office model, you are providing a broad array of expertise holistically. Consequently, you can deliver substantial value to the wealthy. Many accounting firms provide family office services. While family office is in the name of these practices, a large percentage of them are offering a limited menu of single-family office capabilities. The services tend to comprise business management expertise and other accounting and tax-related capabilities.
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Be certain to track results.

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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Four 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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