One of the things that we cover quite a bit covered quite a bit in our training is the value of asking questions. When we as advisors can ask our clients questions and get them to think about the answer, it will transform our ability to educate our clients and to motivate them to take action.
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The Growing Cost of College Isn’t Usually This Funny… Unfortunately, the four-year “plan” for most college students is to take out a lot of student loans and graduate without a workable strategy for getting OUT of debt (or out of the house!) This too-true video is hilarious, though it may
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Which is better when it comes to life insurance – direct recognition or non-direct recognition? There is a debate going on in the insurance industry… and Todd Langford sheds some light on it for us! In case you’re not familiar with the debate, we’ll share this description from a previous
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On a mastermind call with Summit attendees a few months ago, Kim Butler asked Todd Langford to share about some misconceptions about mortgage interest deductibility, and the truth of the matter. We had this portion of the call transcribed and thought it might be helpful to you, too! Kim: Todd
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On February 10, 2016, we put on a special full-day event in Birmingham, AL for advisors and their guests, “The Whole Truth About Money.” Over several hours, we analyzed popular financial vehicles with Truth Concepts software to show some of the myths and misinformation which common in “typical” financial advice.
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(Adapted from an article originally published on Partners4Prosperity.com. Please feel free to share this page at TruthConcepts.com/power-of-liquidity with clients, or see the Content4Clients program for content marketing resources you can use for your own website.) “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” – Bobby Unser, Indianapolis 500 Champion Are you
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We published some “Truth Quotes” awhile back… comments and sayings compiled from a Truth Training (mostly Todd Langford’s). At a recent training in Salt Lake City, a new list of quotes heard at a Truth Training was compiled. Unless otherwise noted, the quote came from Todd Langford (although we don’t
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“Is Whole Life Insurance a Good Investment?” Perhaps no question has generated as much controversy on financial blogs and forums as this one. “Typical” advisors and the media-hyped financial gurus say, “Stay away from whole life insurance!” Meanwhile, many passionate agents and advisors try in vain to correct the misconceptions,
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If you’ve ever wanted to use Truth Concepts when you weren’t near your office computer, you’ll love this announcement: We are now offering Truth Concepts Online as an optional addition to our full software package. It will let you use Truth Concepts on your tablet, ipad, laptop, even your smartphone.
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In my conversations with advisors, I get all kinds of questions relating to the potential returns of financial vehicle “A” (investment, savings vehicle, insurance policy or property) versus financial vehicle “B.” Of course, that’s what financial software DOES, yet sometimes, it seems we don’t have all of the factors –
Read MoreWe received this excellent question from a Truth Concepts user this week: Q. I am trying to do a comparison between using a qualified plan and a non-qualified plan. I understand pretty well how to use the Qualified Plan calculator, however I want to show an “apples to apples comparison”
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Marketing and Lead Generation for Financial Advisors This week, we’re going to let Kate, our marketing gal, share what she has learned over 4 years of helping financial professionals with their marketing. Kate recently implemented a content marketing strategy that helped my (Todd Langford’s) wife, Kim Butler, generate leads EVERY
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(A note from Kate Phillips, our marketing coach): Over the last few months, Google has been warning webmasters and SEO (search engine optimization) marketers that websites need to be “mobile-friendly” in this smart-phone age. In a nutshell: Older website technology such as flash, too-tiny text and pages that aren’t appropriately
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Is Disaster Inevitable for Stock Market Investors? I ran across an interesting article recently on Forbes.com by economic analyst Jesse Colombo with some controversial and thought-provoking research on the matter. While many people are speculating (logically) that the stock market bull run can’t last forever, according to Colombo, the problem
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Top Producing Advisor and Todd’s Truth Training partner (and wife) Kim Butler recently sat down to discuss Prosperity Economics in this series of five short videos. Hosted by Steve Savant of Let’s Get Down to Business, they had some lively discussions! Steve calls Kim an “articulate contrarian” and “controversial author”
Read MoreYes, you can save your notes! To make sure that a note stays with a particular calculator when saved, right click on it and hit “attach to” before closing the calculator.
Read MoreTo get spread sheet detail, turn on “term ins. and emp. cost” button. (This works whether or not you have term insurance or employee costs that you wish to add.) Close anytime (top left corner of spreadsheet) and to view again, click button again and then “inputs.”
Read MoreTo enter in an interest only loan in the real estate analysis calculator, set the months to “3000.”
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“Computers are smart but they have no imagination.” – Norman Baker It’s been just over 6 years since we lost Norman Baker unexpectedly at the age of 73. Norman was a truly great financial advisor, our partner in “telling the whole truth about money”, the co-founder of Truth Concepts, and
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Rahna Barthelmess is an expert in branding and personal branding and today’s guest blogger. She is celebrating the launch of her new book, Your Branding Edge: How Personal Branding Can Turbocharge Your Career with a virtual blog tour, and we are happy to host her. Personal branding can help you
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New Truth Concepts Client Presentations! We’ve been busy loading up our Truth Concepts YouTube channel with videos for you! Now there are 15 videos featuring Todd Langford and/or Truth Concepts software. The YouTube channel houses our Truth Concepts, Truth Concepts Academy, and Summit videos, as well as several presentation videos
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We had the privilege of conducting a Truth Training in Salt Lake City hosted by Paradigm Life. Jay Gentry of Chandler Advisors, LLC compiled his favorite quotes from the training. (Thanks Jay!) We hope you’ll enjoy (and maybe even repeat) some of these “Truth Quotes”: “Eliminate ‘government’ from our
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When you think about it, isn’t the concept of retirement just ABSURD!? It’s absurd to think that making a growing segment of our population LESS productive (through forced or expected retirements), that there will somehow be more for everyone. It’s absurd for 95% of Americans to believe they can work
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You work hard to prepare your clients financially, with insurance policies, savings, investments, education, and more. You may assume – along with your clients – that a life insurance policy, a will, and a durable power of attorney constitute “preparedness.” But those are just part of the puzzle. The fact
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As you know, in the early months and years of a whole life policy, the PUAs are more efficient than the base premium as far as generating cash value for the policy. While the base premium alone can take years to generate a positive internal rate of return where cash value is concerned, the PUAs are converted to cash value right away, which increases the efficiency of the policy overall.
However, after 5-7 years of funding a whole life policy, the impact of the PUAs appears to lessen. Illustrations of a policy funded with maximum PUAs vs. no PUAs at all show that, several years into the policy, the PUAs no longer have a dramatic affect on the internal rate of return of the policy.
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