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Financial planning and practice insights for advisors and the clients they serve.

By Taylor Stewart, CFP

Planning

Core Questions of Financial Planning

Financial planning comes down to 12 questions. If you can answer them, you have awareness. If you can answer them the way you want, you're making the most of your money.

Planning

The 6 Variables You Can Control

There are only six variables within your control that meaningfully impact your financial future: savings, liquidity, insurance, estate planning, investments, and taxes.

Marketing

The Video with a 100% Close Rate

The homepage video that converts nearly every viewer. To draw people in, you must simultaneously push others away.

Practice Management

The Advisor Who Schedules No Client Meetings

An advisor with an unconventional goal: scheduling zero client meetings. What authentic client relationships actually look like.

Marketing

The Golden Rules of Marketing

Two foundational marketing principles every financial advisor should follow: to attract you must also repel, and disqualify people as quickly as possible.

Planning

The 5 Changes in a Financial Plan

Every piece of financial advice fits into one of 5 groups. The Changes to be Made page IS the financial plan. Everything else is just context.

Feature

Introducing Guides: Present Financial Plans the Way Your Clients Deserve to See Them

Create customizable dashboard templates for different client situations. Over 20 components, drag-and-drop editing, and branded PDF output.

Opinion

Debate Settler #1: Investments vs Insurance Arguments on LinkedIn

Both investments and insurance serve legitimate purposes. Most disagreements stem from applying inappropriate tools to specific situations.

Feature

Why we called it "Guides"

We didn't start with the name. We started with a question: what does this feature actually do? A guide has a job.

Non-projection based financial planning software that helps advisors answer the core questions and identify key action items.