Ep 049: Getting Paid For (Hourly) Financial Planning By Packaging Financial Advice with Anna Sergunina

Anna Sergunina is the owner of Mainstreet Financial Planning, an hourly-based financial planning firm under the Garrett Planning Network. Not only has her company grown to more than $600,000 of revenue, but it has done so from simply getting paid to provide hourly financial planning advice with no income at all from insurance products or managing investment portfolios. What's also fascinating about Anna's business is the way that she's figured out how to communicate the value of hourly financial planning by creating very specific financial advice packages for various types of prospective client profiles. In this episode, we talk in depth about Anna's five-meeting process for financial planning, how she uses her website to both explain the value of those financial planning packages to prospects and to screen out those who aren't really likely to take the process seriously, and why she charges $100 as an upfront deposit for an initial inquiry approach meeting with prospects. We also discuss how Anna sets the level for her financial planning fees and the sources of new business that has her firm on track to add more than 100 new hourly financial planning clients this year. For show notes and more visit https://www.kitces.com/49