Bryce Sanders
Bryce Sanders, President of Perceptive Business Solutions Inc. has provided training for the financial services industry on High Net Worth (HNW) client acquisition since 2001. He wrote the book " Captivating the Wealthy Investor ", available on Amazon . His core topics address how to Identify prospects within the wealthiest 2-5% of your market, where to Meet and Socialize with them, how to Talk with wealthy people and develop personal relationships then how to Transform wealthy friends into clients. Bryce spent twenty years with a major financial services firm as a successful financial advisor (14 years), district sales manager (2 years) and home office manager (4 years). His background enables him to address both the advisor's and the manager's objectives. Learn more here .
Articles by Bryce Sanders
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Step up Your Outdoor Entertaining as a HNW Gateway
Let us look at several ways you can upgrade your outdoor entertaining to HNW standards.
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Why Take Clients to Lunch
Tax law changes phased out this 1960’s expense account perk. It still featured in episodes of Mad Men. Taking a client to lunch has many advantages.
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The Bartender: An Essential Friend for a Financial Advisor
Again, the bartender is your supportive partner. A retired executive explained this works in two ways.
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The Overspending Retiree in a Rising Stock Market
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What Established Advisors Know (And New Ones Need To Learn)
Experienced advisers are here for a reason. They survived. Even better, they thrived.
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The Tricky Topic: Asking Fellow Board Members for Business
Here are a few thoughts that should fit within the rules, while also raising your visibility.
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Prospecting Strategies for Advisors Who Hate Prospecting
Let us look at seven strategies that don’t involve cold calling or cold walking. Many remind you of the tortoise and the hare analogy.
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What Can You Do if Your Client Is Going Into Isolation?
You also develop a sense for when your client should be keeping in touch, but all you hear are crickets. That is a bad sign.
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Post April 15th: What Did the Accountant Tell Your Client?
Did Your Accountant Suggest Anything You Should Do Differently in This Tax Year? Here Are a Few Points They Might Have Made
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The Difference Between Estate Planning and Legacy Planning
They sound similar. Agents and advisors recognize they have a role in both? What’s the difference?
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Why Do Clients Pay for Professional Advice?
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After Work Networking for New Prospects
Another segment who destress differently, visiting a local bar for happy hour.. If you fit into this last category, is this article talking to you? Yes.
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Where Do You Eat Lunch?
Years ago, I met a bank president who shared a story about why he started his career by eating lunch at the local luncheonette and continued the tradition
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The Case for Calling Every Client Now
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10 Incremental Ways To Improve Seminar Attendance
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Friends Know if They Will Do Business Long Before You Ask
Even if the person on the receiving end says no you get your answer immediately. The decision has been made in advance.
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Wear Humility as a Badge of Honor
I seemed to be far more successful in my previous career than I ever imagined. I want to be that guy! Humility helps.
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The Case To Make Small Contributions To Many Charities
Here is the case for making $50 gifts to twenty worthy causes in your local area. This is both charitable and also good for business
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Retirement Planning When You Don’t Have a Plan at Work
There are about 30 million non employer businesses run by the owner. How can they do retirement planning?
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Introductions: The Softer Way To Request Referrals
Do clients have nightmares? Of course. In addition to the stock market falling off a cliff, they worry about feeling obligated to provide referrals.
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How To Treat Your Client as a Market of One
Your client has consciously chosen to work with a financial advisor. They want to be treated as a market of one. How can you do that?
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Why Clients Should Properly Value Their Collectibles
Let us look at six reasons it makes sense to inventory your collectibles
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Is Your Client on the Wrong Side of a K Shaped Economy?
Let us consider some advice you can give to a client or their child who has a job but finds themselves on the wrong leg of a K shaped economy.
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Seven Ways To Get in Social Circles (That Keep You Out)
People in the financial services industry have been assigned this label for years. So, how do you get in?
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10 Ways for Financial Professionals Not To Start 2026
Plenty of articles address best practices, how about looking at mistakes financial advisors should avoid?
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Time: The Currency That Cannot Be Replaced but Can Be Preserved
We never seem to have enough time. When someone has died, we often regret we did not spend more time together.
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Seven Reasons To Get Client Annual Reviews Scheduled Now
This is an ideal opportunity for advisors to be proactive. Call them up and get an annual review scheduled in January.
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Why Help Clients When You Don’t Get Paid
Involves providing advice towards solving a problem where the advisor is nor ringing the cash register. There are several reasons why this is a good idea.
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How To Meet Your Future Clients Over the Holidays
The people who live in a protected, isolated world often are deeply involved in the holiday celebrations in your local area.
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How To Read the Room When Attending Events
Reading the room speaks to the ability to pickup clues from people around you and act accordingly. Here are a few examples
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Is Your Market Where You Live or Where You Work?
Although you would take clients from anywhere subject to licensing your two primary options for your territory might be where you live or where you work.
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Do Clients Overspend at Christmas?
. If you are helping them dig their way out of debt, neither them or you want them hopping back in again.
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How To Persuade Clients They Need an Emergency Fund
How can you make the case your client should not be spending everything they earn?
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How To Avoid Becoming a Pariah on LinkedIn
If they conclude advisors and agents are pushy, they have grouped you into this category before you can prove you are different.
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Can You Live a Comfortable Retirement Lifestyle on $100K a Year?
Can you live a comfortable, approaching luxurious lifestyle on slightly under $100,000 a year? I think so.
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Do Clients Really Understand How Investing Works?
Now it is similar to both a spectator sport and a video game. Do your clients really understand how investing works?