Welcome everybody! Welcome to the 425th episode of the Monetary Advisor Success Podcast!
My visitor on right now’s podcast is Sebastian Guerra. Sebastian is the President of Guerra Wealth Advisors, a hybrid advisory agency based mostly in Miami, Florida, with almost $15M of income and nearly 60 workforce members, supporting over 1,700 consumer households.
What’s distinctive about Sebastian, although, is how his agency has applied a monetary planning high quality management system, the place a devoted workforce member touches base with purchasers instantly after their assembly with an advisor, typically earlier than the consumer even leaves the workplace, to make sure that purchasers are receiving a excessive degree of service, get suggestions on the place they’ll enhance… and drive referrals, on-line critiques, and social media engagement by asking purchasers to interact instantly after they supply constructive suggestions.
On this episode, we speak in-depth about how Sebastian employed a workforce member to change into a high quality management specialist (and has now added a second) particularly to observe up with purchasers after conferences to ask about their expertise with each their advisor in addition to with different departments within the agency with which they work together (from the entrance desk to operations), how Sebastian’s agency has obtained 400 consumer referrals yearly (averaging almost 25% of their complete consumer rely) partially by having these high quality management specialists ask purchasers to not present referrals, per se, however to call people they might attain out to in the event that they ran their very own wealth administration agency (who then obtain invites to attend one of many Sebastian’s instructional occasions), and the way Sebastian’s agency has additionally gained greater than 600 Google critiques by way of this high quality management course of (making the agency simpler to search out for potential purchasers, and drowning out a sequence of three fraudulent destructive critiques {that a} competitor as soon as posted towards them).
We additionally speak about how Sebastian’s agency attracted and onboarded roughly 480 new households in 2024 (together with by way of a one-day instructional occasion that led to 115 prospect appointments all by itself), how Sebastian’s agency expands its relationship with current purchasers by tasking everybody, together with operations workforce members, with the aim of getting purchasers consolidate extra of their belongings with Guerra Wealth advisors, and the way Sebastian allows his lead advisors to carry as much as 35 prospect and purchasers every week by leveraging each know-how (together with Salesforce to prep advisors earlier than conferences and AI to transcribe the advisors’ assembly notes and follow-on duties) and a sturdy service workforce to supply additional assist for every advisor.
And be sure to hearken to the top, the place Sebastian shares how utilizing the Entrepreneurial Working System has allowed him to make clear his agency’s targets, imaginative and prescient, and mission at a time of speedy consumer and worker development (because the agency has almost doubled over the previous two years alone), how Sebastian’s agency leverages an in-house recruiter to rent quick sufficient to maintain tempo with its speedy development whereas staying true to the agency’s core values, and the way Sebastian’s roles as a brand new husband and father have begun to shift his priorities away from ‘simply’ operating a thriving enterprise (and the lengthy hours that doing so can entail) to additionally deal with the power to delegate particular duties to workforce members as a way to spend extra time along with his rising household.
So, whether or not you are concerned with studying about easy methods to implement a monetary planning high quality management system to drive referrals and on-line critiques, easy methods to leverage a single-day advertising and marketing occasion to generate planning prospects, or easy methods to design agency operations to maximise advisor face-time in entrance of purchasers and prospects, then we hope you get pleasure from this episode of the Monetary Advisor Success podcast, with Sebastian Guerra.