Shargel
said his client wants the public to know that he didn't attempt to bribe anybody and denies any wrongdoing.
CBA President Fred Headon
says clients want lawyers to solve their problems, first and foremost.
Vanderpool
said his clients want to keep living in the house, but want to be reimbursed for the cost of getting a variance for a taller fence, hiring security and the loss of value.
Let
's say your client wants an account executive position that pays $ 100,000 or better in the pharmaceutical industry somewhere in the Denver area.
You say clients want education?
Los Angeles interior designer Erica Islas of EMI Interior Designs agrees, and
says her clients want at least one tub or a tub - shower combination.
The buyers» attorney
said his clients wanted Folks to buy back the house for $ 99,000, its purchase price, and fork out $ 63,000 to cover costs for mold remediation and matters related to the buyers» health concerns.
Schleper, owner of All City Builders, in Buffalo, Minn.,
says clients want their basements finished for two reasons: They need space, and a basement remodel is usually about a third of the cost of an addition.
Not exact matches
So if you've got crappy
clients and you
want to
say goodbye to them without going bankrupt, you've got to ease into it.
As I have repeatedly
said over the years, I do not believe that the overwhelming majority of advisors - be they wirehouse, hybrid, independent or RIA - have gotten into this business because they
want to work against their
clients.
«Recruiters, employers, and prospective
clients will all run searches for your name, so you'll
want to find out what the internet
says about you.
«You don't
want to take on a
client who has a million in sales and then a million in returns,»
says Fox, the CEO of Rockland Credit Finance.
Baker's
clients are focused on crafting the perfect taco or vegan dessert, and don't
want to worry about maintaining a website, she
says.
«If this is something that our
clients really
want... it's for sure for something we would look to add in the future,» he
said.
«If you
want to sell to corporate
clients today, you have to bake into your marketing and sales process a number of consensus - building exercises,»
says Rewers.
She
wants to be a partner to her
clients, «able to really look closely at their businesses and to know them well,» she
says.
Those are two things you never
want to
say to a
client.»
«If you
want a very central location in the middle of
clients, it's going to cost you a lot more,» Pettigrew
says.
«It would be a lot harder for Trump to have a lawyer representing him from a big firm, because most big firms, most large firms are not going to
want to potentially alienate their
client base by representing someone as controversial as Trump,» the former colleague of Hendon's
said.
American Express» OPEN Forum
says that the best sales people ask their
clients and customers «why they
want something done.»
If your
client repeats that he's not buying right now,
say «Of course, I just
want to make it easy for you once you make your decision.»
Financial advisor Carolyn McClanahan, director of financial planning at Life Planning Partners in Jacksonville, Florida,
said the
clients who
say they don't
want to retire often don't
want to rein in their spending.
«Many of those
clients are probably the same age as the advisor, and if they are looking for their teeth and glasses, they don't
want to be looking for another advisor,»
said Tibergien at Pershing Advisor Solutions.
«On the one hand, you may
want to dress up, but I do think that even at the holiday party you
want to be somewhat mindful and ask yourself, «Would I be comfortable showing up in this outfit if I was going to meet my best prospective
client,»»
says Fischer.
«I had a
client who
wanted a very specific kind of clip included in a two - minute multimedia introduction,» he
says.
«We
want people to use it,» she
says, as opposed to gyms whose membership rosters are rife with
clients who pay but rarely go.
Those
clients will have regular access to an E * Trade account team: «If they
want someone to validate what they're doing and look at their risk profiles, those advisors can do that,»
says Rich Messina, SVP of Investment Product Management.
Getting small - business owners, whose lives often revolve around work, to examine what gives their lives meaning is not always easy,
say financial life planners who are trained to help
clients explore what they really
want to do with their money.
Analysts who spoke to Reuters on Monday
said some of their investor
clients want Goldman management to outline a specific plan for how the bank will make up for falling bond revenue and drive returns higher.
The average retail broker at Morgan Stanley typically gets no more than a few hundred shares per
client for popular IPOs that the firm underwrites,
said one of the advisers, who requested anonymity because he did not
want to be seen criticizing his own firm.
«Ideally, you
want to leave your current job already knowing that you have one or two consulting
clients lined up who will generate a big part of your cash flow for the next year,»
says NFIB's Phillips.
And I realized a lot of times I would have to apologize to my
clients,
saying, «We don't actually have as much allocation for you, you
wanted to put in $ 20 million but we only have $ 2 million left.»
«You never
want to bring on new
clients and not be able to service them,» McGee
says.
«We are working with
clients who
want to exclude from their portfolios weapons manufacturers or other companies that don't align with their values,» he
said.
«We think that is a tremendous differentiator,» he
says, especially when what
clients really
want is simply reliable advice and an institution that takes care of them.
Your
clients want to feel appreciated by you,»
says Kristy Rampton, an entrepreneur who sells baby clothes.
Clients who have become friends tell countless tales of meeting him at the end of one of his 12 - hour seminar days — Robbins exhausted from giving out as much energy as a nuclear power plant to a room of thousands of acolytes — because he
wanted to help with a project or problem, even at 2 a.m. «The secret sauce with Tony is that he recognizes that he's not in the transaction business,»
says Guber.
Whatever you call the firm (its post-merger name hasn't been revealed as of this writing), much of its success in early seasons was due to creative director Draper's ability to see beyond what
clients and customers
said they
wanted, and understand instead what they truly needed.
«Manulife is supportive of
clients that
want to consider introducing medical cannabis as an option,» the spokesperson
said in an emailed statement.
El Kaliouby
says she's repeatedly turned away
clients who
want to use her technology for any kind of surveillance: «We
want to support the uses where people
want to share their emotions, not uses that try to suck information out of you that you have not decided to share.»
He
said however that
clients wanted a more integrated offering from WPP after years of dealing with its multiple agencies.
«While taking
client feedback is critical, giving customers what they
want - instead of what serves their lives and businesses - is a copout,»
says Kelly Azevedo of She's Got Systems, who works «incredibly hard to educate my audience and persuade them.
«The issue of why you
want to be short this stock and we are telling
clients to sell Facebook at these levels... is really because of the challenge of mobile,» Greenfield
said.
«When I'm in a
client meeting or giving a speech, I
want the
client or audience to be able to focus on what I'm
saying, not what I'm wearing.
«Warren Buffett recently
said he might buy a whole airline and that he
wants to do a «huge» deal while bemoaning market valuations,» Wolfe Research's Hunter Keay wrote in a note to
clients Friday.
«It resonates with us when a
client says, «I
want to hold Bitcoin or Bitcoin futures because I think it is an alternate store of value,»...»
Ad agencies, brands and marketers usually
want to see what they're buying upfront, so it's really up to shops like us to make things and then take it to those
clients and
say, «Look what you can do.»
«It resonates with us when a
client says, «I
want to hold Bitcoin or Bitcoin futures because I think it is an alternate store of value,»» Yared
said.
The company will work with networks of financial planners who
want to help their
clients diversify and perhaps mortgage bankers as well, Weiss
said.
«We
wanted something that was branded and was always available to our
clients,»
says Head of Product, Val Hudson.