Financial Services

The Client Audit

A unique client survey tool that helps advisors to:

  • Gauge client satisfaction
  • Identify specific cross-selling, consolidation and referral opportunities
  • Strengthen and grow relationships with existing clients

The Client Audit Process

  • Advisor completes survey customization process
  • Advisor Impact customizes client survey
  • Advisor Impact designs and prints surveys and return envelopes
  • Advisor mails surveys to clients
  • Clients complete survey and return to Advisor Impact
  • Advisor Impact receives, inputs and analyzes client surveys
  • Advisor Impact develops comprehensive report and action plan

In the United States, the Client Audit is offered through a partnership between Moss Adams LLP and Advisor Impact.

The Client Audit Report: The Big Picture

  • Key marketing opportunities
  • Top client issues
  • Satisfaction gaps
  • Client expectations regarding contact and education

Client Opportunity Report

Client-by-client overview of key opportunities

  • Cross-selling
  • Consolidation
  • Referrals
  • Follow-up lists for key marketing opportunities

Action Plan

Follow-up templates for clients, centers of influence and prospects

  • Suggested client marketing campaigns
  • Assessment and identification of assets at risk
  • Recommended changes to service structure

The Client Audit helps financial advisors gauge client satisfaction and identify specific cross-selling, referral and consolidation opportunities.

About the Program

The Client Audit is a unique process designed to help financial advisors strengthen relationships with their existing clients and identify cross-selling, consolidation and referral opportunities to grow those relationships.

The Client Audit allows you to outsource the time-consuming and specialized process of client surveying to experts in the industry. More importantly, it provides you with a comprehensive analysis of satisfaction and opportunity that is practical and actionable.

The Client Audit will:

  • Identify specific clients who are willing to provide referrals.
  • Identify specific cross-selling and marketing opportunities on a client-by-client basis.
  • Help advisors gauge satisfaction among existing clients and identify specific gaps.
  • Demonstrate commitment to existing clients.
  • Provide data to build deeper relationships with centers of influence and prospects.
  • Track progress and changes over time.

Surveys and final reports are customized for each advisor taking part in the program, whether purchased individually or as part of a corporate group.

Individual Pricing: $2,300 per advisor + $2.50/client household
Example: One advisor with 150 client households
Total Cost: $2,675
Volume discounts are available.

Download the Client Audit brochure to learn more about the Client Audit Report and the Client Audit Process.

For more on client surveying, read the following article at Financial-Planning.com: http://www.financial-planning.com/pubs/fp/20031101024.html.