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Borrowing Against Whole Life Insurance at a Bank

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Todd Langford • 0 Comments

This post originally appeared as an article on Kim Butler’s Partners for Prosperity website at www.partners4prosperity.com/collateral We thought this to be valuable information to also share with the Truth Concepts community. We get many questions on using life insurance policies with cash value as collateral for bank loans. First, you can ONLY borro… Continue Reading

Is Whole Life Insurance a Bad Investment? (Book Excerpt)

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Kate4TC • 0 Comments

In December, we announced the launch of Kim’s latest book, Busting the Life Insurance Lies, co-authored with Jack Burns and James Ranson. Below are two excerpts from the book, one from Part One. First, we include the conversation that sets up the first several lies and shows how each lie is related to real-world myths and concerns as seen through the eyes of… Continue Reading

The 7 Figure Success Secret of Top Producers

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Kate4TC • 2 Comments

“Success leaves clues.” ~ Tony Robbins Question: What do — Patrick Donohoe, founder of Paradigm Life, one of the largest U.S. financial services firms that focus on whole life insurance, Michael Isom, a seven-figure wealth advisor and co-author of What Would the Rockefellers Do? Garrett Gunderson, New York Times best-selling financial auth… Continue Reading

Busting the Life Insurance Lies

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Kate4TC • 5 Comments

We’re Launching a New Book… and It’s Our Gift! My wife, Kim Butler, and our friend, Jack Burns, have joined forces to write what just may be the definitive book about whole life insurance: Busting the Life Insurance Lies: 38 Myths and Misconceptions that Sabotage Your Wealth. This book is written for every American who’s gotten conflicting a… Continue Reading

The Value of Asking Questions

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Kate4TC • 3 Comments

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” ~ Voltaire 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. Silen… Continue Reading

The Four-Year Plan

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Kate4TC • 4 Comments

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 hit a little too close to home for some… Feel free… Continue Reading

Direct Recognition Vs. Non-Direct Recognition

Posted on July 16, 2016 by Kate4TC • 4 Comments

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 post on the topic: There are two different methods insur… Continue Reading

Clarifying Mortgage Interest Deductibility

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Kate4TC • 0 Comments

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 is going to share a little bit about the deductibility of mortgage interest dis… Continue Reading

We Caught “The Whole Truth” on VIDEO!

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Kate4TC • 0 Comments

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. These presentations were … Continue Reading

The Power of Liquidity: Capitalizing with Cash

Posted on March 23, 2016 by jtaylor • 1 Comment

(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, Ind… Continue Reading

More Truth Quotes!

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Kate4TC • 1 Comment

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 guarantee that he was the source o… Continue Reading

The Truth About Whole Life Insurance Rates of Return

Posted on December 23, 2015 by Kate4TC • 1 Comment

“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 misconce… Continue Reading

Truth Concepts Goes Online!

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Kate4TC • 0 Comments

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. We have had many requests for an online version t… Continue Reading

How to Get 3 Leads a Day

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Kate4TC • 6 Comments

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 DAY in her financ… Continue Reading

The Stock Market: A Bubble About to Burst?

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Kate4TC • 0 Comments

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 is potenti… Continue Reading

Kim Butler on Prosperity Economics and Truth Concepts

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Kate4TC • 0 Comments

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” a… Continue Reading

Want More clients? Effective Personal Branding for Advisors

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Kate4TC • 0 Comments

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 get more clients more quickly, as Rahna shares in this post, “Wan… Continue Reading

“Truth Quotes”

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Kate4TC • 0 Comments

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 vocabulary and replac… Continue Reading

Truth Concepts is Busting the Retirement Lies!

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Kate4Todd • 0 Comments

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 and save for 40 years, then expect to live off of t… Continue Reading

Are Your Clients READY for the Unexpected?

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Kate4Todd • 0 Comments

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 is that even the people who have taken such st… Continue Reading

Manifesto on Solutions for the College Education Dilemma

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Kate4TC • 0 Comments

Our kids are too important to sacrifice to the status quo! Download a free version of Seth Godin’s manifesto on solutions for the college education dilemma, here is the link: http://www.squidoo.com/stop-stealing-dreams … Continue Reading

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