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Lavish Your Clients With Service with Cathi Durrell (Ep. 23)

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Aside from a prospectus, product brochure or statement, your business has become extremely virtual and complex. Adding tangible tools to your approach helps remind both your affluent clients and your prospective clients that there are two types of advisors – salespeople and consultants – and what the differences between the two are.

In this episode, Duncan MacPherson joins Cathi Durrell, owner of Lavish Cards, to discuss how one of the best strategies a fee-for-service professional can do to take their relationship management to the next level.

Cathi discusses:

  • Actionable strategies that lead to client loyalty, client engagement, and client advocacy
  • How greeting cards reinforce your image as a goal-based professional
  • What to do if you can’t find the time to send out personalized greeting cards
  • Unconventional card ideas to improve your branding
  • And more

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About Our Guest: Cathi Durrell, along with her husband Glen, who is a professional photographer, are the owners of Lavish Fine Art Cards, a company they co-founded 11 years ago. Lavish has grown extensively over the past 11 years and specializes in catering to the bespoke communication needs of their clients. The entire crew at Lavish are committed to creating and supplying the highest quality greeting cards. In her spare time, Cathi enjoys travel and exploring “the back-roads” with Glen, in search of the next image for Lavish.

 

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Preparing to Buy (or Sell) a Business with Ted Motheral (Ep. 22)

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Your business is your biggest asset — it’s your life’s work! If you want to maximize its enterprise value, you need to take action well before the time of selling it.

If you’re a buyer looking to take over a business, there are certain efforts you can take to improve your company’s growth.

In this episode, Duncan MacPherson joins Ted Motheral, chair of Walter | Haverfield’s Business Services group, to help buyers and sellers prepare for an efficient business transfer. They also explore ways to take impeccable care of your clients and employees during the process.

Ted discusses:

  • Key value drivers for a financial advisory business
  • A checklist to keep in mind before buying or selling a business
  • The importance of taking a goal-based approach toward your big liquidity event
  • The role of private equity in the current M&A landscape
  • How to organize your corporate structure and protect your intellectual property before selling your business
  • And more

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Ted Motheral is Chair of Walter | Haverfield’s Business Services group, which includes more than two dozen business and transactional lawyers. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, as well as private debt and equity financing. Ted has experience in leading transactions for multi-million dollar acquisitions and has represented borrowers and lenders in multi-million dollar debt offerings. He is also experienced in advising clients on general corporate matters, entity formation and governance, joint ventures, divestments, and reporting requirements and regulations. Additionally, Ted has experience forming loan documentation programs for public entities in the State of Ohio. Ted joined Walter | Haverfield as a partner in 2016. Prior to joining Walter | Haverfield, he practiced law at Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aranoff. He was formerly a financial consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in New York City and also worked in the general counsel office of KLA-Tencor Corporation in Silicon Valley, California.

 

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Looking to Your Liquidity Event with Denise Logan (Ep. 21)

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Every business owner will leave their business one day, voluntarily or involuntarily. It’s a matter of WHEN, not IF.

So, it’s important to start planning for this inflection point well ahead of time — both technically and emotionally.

In this episode, Duncan MacPherson speaks with Denise Logan, business transition expert, professional speaker, and best-selling author of The Seller’s Journey. Denise explains how you can help clients overcome the emotional barriers to selling a business while simultaneously preparing for your own exit.

Denise discusses:

  • Why creating your own exit strategy is the first step to assisting clients in their exit
  • How to remain your client’s first-choice advisor when the time comes for the big liquidity event
  • How to prepare your team for the transition to a new owner
  • Legacy dinners, fireside chats, and other fun activities to connect with your clients
  • And more

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Denise Logan knows that to business owners, selling a business is more than a transaction. To them, it is an emotionally fraught period of transition, filled with unexpected highs and lows, with no clear vision of what waits at the end for them and their family. Her passion for this work is colored by her own experience of being an unprepared business owner who made an abrupt and choppy exit from her company, after ignoring the signs that it was time for several years.

She is the author of The Seller’s Journey: A Business Fable about Navigating the Emotional Obstacles to Selling Your Business, and has addressed more than five hundred audiences on three continents about the psychology of business owners and how to make it easier when the time comes to let go. 

Denise provides advanced training to advisors employed by some of the world’s largest financial institutions, law firms and accounting firms, helping their clients successfully transition their businesses to new owners and, most importantly, without regret.

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Why You Should Be Podcasting with Matt Halloran (Ep. 3)

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Podcasting is an incredibly powerful tool for financial services professionals. It has the ability to drown out the noise and make people focus on what you’re saying.

In this episode, Duncan MacPherson is interviewed by Matt Halloran of ProudMouth about the merits of podcasting and why financial service professionals should consider adding it to their marketing and branding efforts. Duncan explains why he chose to start a podcast.

Duncan discusses:

  • Why he chose to bring podcasting to his followers, clients, etc.
  • How podcasting allows you to move people from suspects to prospects (or skeptics to fans)
  • Why intellectual property is so important for a fee for service professional
  • How his clients have used organic growth to improve their practice 
  • And more

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Matt got started in the financial services industry 20 years ago as a certified life and business coach.   As he became immersed in his client’s biggest needs, he built his knowledge and expertise as a financial branding and social media expert.  More recently, Matt has added podcasting to that list.

Matt respects how tough it is to be great and effective at marketing while running a practice, living a life, and loving a family. He teaches advisors how to be themselves, let their passions shine through and create strong brands that resonate with ideal prospects and centers of influence.

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How to Achieve the Maximum Enterprise Value with Ted Jenkin (Ep. 2)

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Do you have a succession plan in place? Have you considered your exit strategy and the enterprise value of your business?

In this episode Duncan MacPherson and Ted Jenkin, serial entrepreneur and CEO of oXYGen Financial discuss how to drive enterprise value, re-imagining what it means to be a financial professional, and how to get out of the wealth management business. Ted also shares his experience as a serial entrepreneur and his favourite books.

Duncan and Ted discuss:

  • Deploying a process to work on your business and drive enterprise value 
  • Re-imagining what it means to be a financial professional
  • Getting out of the wealth management business
  • Ted’s experience as a serial entrepreneur
  • And more

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Ted grew up in NJ (actually off of exit 8), he is a Boston College grad, and has the best wife in the world Genna, with three wonderful kids (Olivia, Lyla, and Louden). Ted is now a Milton, GA resident and in his spare time Ted can be found playing tennis, working out, and running businesses.

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