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Too many years ago to count I was at a wholesaler meeting where our firm had enlisted the services of a then start up company to provide us with a look at how advisors viewed the firm and us as wholesalers.
It was at this meeting that I met Steve DeLano and Market Metrics.
How do great actors collect Academy Awards?
How do legendary comics fill 25,000 seat arenas?
How do great wholesalers become great?
Many years ago when I started in management and needed to conduct my first wholesaler interview, I was at a loss for meaningful questions that would help me get more solid insights into the candidates that I was about to see.
After some homework I made a list of 10 questions and I made a habit of asking the exact same question to every candidate that I saw – regardless of the position they were applying for.
Perhaps you have heard the saying:
“Behind every successful man is a woman.”
Or, as Groucho Marx said:
“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.” [rimshot]
In our business the expression must be simply:
“Behind every great external wholesaler’s success is a phenomenal internal partner.”
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Playing off of the wildly popular post 5 Things to Do to Make COIs Love You, in the Winter edition of I Carry The Bag…the official magazine of wholesaling we are doing a feature story on Centers of Influence.
