Success as a Financial Advisor For Dummies

Chapter 25

Ten Tips for Being a Successful Financial Advisor

IN THIS CHAPTER

Adhering to the highest ethical standards

Protecting and appreciating your clients

Turning the fact that you might be wrong to your client’s advantage

Being a successful financial advisor requires more than mastering a collection of tips and techniques. It requires education, experience, and dedication. However, reading through a list of tips is a great way to remind yourself of what you need to do to stay on top of your game.

Here, I give you ten tips for being a successful financial advisor. Some are specific action items, whereas others are more like attitudes or behaviors to adopt. All of them are essential ingredients to making you a well-rounded and thriving member of the financial advisor community. Certainly, you need more than ten tips to become truly successful in this field, but I consider these tips to be the ten essentials.

Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide

You have a conscience that has been instilled in you since birth. It’s that little voice inside your head that makes you question whether a choice is right or wrong. Pinocchio had Jiminy Cricket to make him mindful of temptation. Others ...