One of the biggest hurdles to overcome for business owners is figuring out how to effectively manage and empower your team to drive success and growth. When you've poured your heart and soul into cultivating a loyal team, it can be...
In 2019, a small business was doing okay. They had 40 clients and $670,000 gross revenue. The team cared about their peers and clients and worked hard. However, their growth had stagnated because the owners lacked time to develop more...
There were significant hurdles to overcome in this service business. But our client, a seasoned business owner, was no stranger to adversity. Their unwavering vision to positively impact their clients' lives, their resilience, and their...
Here’s the story of our client who—despite strong revenue and interest from other smaller firms to be acquired by them—was struggling with low profit and a whole lot of no.
Thankfully, they came to us in time to turn it all around.
If you’re hoping to grow, C-Suite thinkers are critical. But it’s easier said than done to train that mindset. Here’s where we come in—and how we helped one client increase profits from 0% to over 10% in less than 9 months by fostering this mentality.
Sometimes restoring the health of a business isn’t about increasing profitability. What are four concrete solutions for sustainable growth?
Tacking on subsidiary businesses is a great method to scale your business. However, many business leaders fail to realize that the work to support and monitor subsidiaries can slowly degrade the overall business and its financial health....
Sometimes restoring the health of a business isn’t about increasing profitability. There are plenty of instances where the revenue is there, but the way that revenue is being generated isn’t sustainable. Of course, profitability typically...
Vendor and provider management are essential to maintaining profitability. However, when revenue comes from multiple sources, is tracked in different systems, and those systems don’t integrate, money pours through the cracks. That’s what...
What happens when you buy a business and get blindsided with profitability issues and no capacity? Read what we did to overcome hidden problems and secure a 27% net profit within 12 months.
This True Story shares a long, arduous journey to overcome not only company shortfalls, but corporate culture and mindset. It is a challenge to implement change when buried in a quagmire of outdated systems, processes, and convictions.
This is a true story of time, energy, and unwavering commitment to change. It is a story of digging out of the weeds, seeing the flaws, and giving it their all to produce brilliant results from a tsunami of change. And it is a story that you can have too. Here is the how…
Sometimes the best ideas only require a little elbow grease. Here is how a business attracted $30K in revenue using completely free methods.
This story is one for the books. It shows how productive collaboration showed a leader the path and technique to becoming a successor.
This $3.9 million gross revenue services firm was lead by founders that embraced their team as work family, oozed positivism, and wanted to empower their team to rise up and succeed them. But both lacked the techniques to make this happen naturally and in a timely manner. See what happened when we introduced productive collaboration.
Financial accountability is the single most important factor affecting your business’s ability to grow. Without it, you are simply relying on luck to get by. Some firms however, find their luck has run out a little too late. Read a true story of a firm whose lack of financial accountability led to a series of unfortunate and possibly devastating events.
This month’s true story examines onboarding gone terribly wrong. This $600 million AUM, fee-only planning and investment firm of 14 employees sacrificed a full year of productivity and profitability and lost 1 senior advisor due to lack of a systematized onboarding process. The haunting part? I see this happen all the time. Don’t let this be you.
Find out what happens when advisors rush to hire and don’t follow a robust screening process. Spoiler alert: it’s costly.
Here are the problems we solved: business growth was stagnant, profit margins were in single digits, lacked clarity on client segments, low productivity, and culture stuck in negative mode with business improvements stalled. What was done?
Letting clients go can be a difficult decision and continually hiring new employees wasn’t the best solution to growth. Here is the story of how one firm used Facet Wealth to thrive!
This $2.1b AUA firm suffered from single digit profit margins, no growth, super low productivity and culture, and the lack of a budget and authority from retiring owners to truly improve and boost the business. What could we do on a tight budget? You might be surprised…
This $337m RIA firm was at a major crossroad. They had 4 owners retiring and 4 younger staff becoming owners. Their lease was renewing and they had no document management system, older server-based CRM and Portfolio Management software, and no defined workflows and process.
A $280 million discretionary AUM Florida firm came to us with 5 support staff and 2 advisor owners. They had hit a wall on business development due to lack of capacity, tech and operational setbacks. What to do?
This firm had 3 locations, 44 staff, $1.9 billion AUM, and they had just lost their largest client. The firm struggled with clarity on being an investment or planning-centric firm, reduced profitability, and lack of communication among staff and executives. They had also committed to implementing complex systems and processes without having project, process, and vendor management experience, an industry-bred COO, a culture open to change and accountability, and expertise in cloud-based technology.
Here are the problems to solve: no online client portal, new remote clients with no process to service effectively, frequent technology setbacks, staff overloaded, marketing non-existent, no effective processes in place, stagnant AUM and client growth, and ineffective IT, Admin staff and bookkeeper.
Here are the problems to solve: stunted revenue growth, undocumented processes not followed as specified, and failed to address the fact that two different types of clients existed and each should be serviced differently to provide appropriate quality service while maintaining profitability.
Here are the problems to solve: unable to expand the client base, u nable to attract hires at all levels, frequent technology setbacks, staff overloaded, and no ability to scale the business and ensure quality service due to lack of processes.
Here are the problems to solve: unable to attract advisors with books of business to join the firm, unable to attract operations staff to join the firm, unable to accommodate more advisors due to lack of space, difficulty increasing the wealth management business without increasing the size of the staff, no monitoring of projects and current staff workload, unable to market to new leads due to lack of time and website, and overwhelmed and disorganized.