Maribeth Kuzmeski, President of the consulting firm, Red Zone Marketing, works with the nation’s most successful, million dollar producers to assist them in continuing to grow and systematize their practices. She has written 4 books including the bestselling book, “85 Million Dollar Tips for Financial Advisors.” Her newest book is The Connectors - Relationship Strategies from the World's Most Successful Business People.

   Maribeth is a national keynote speaker, has spoken at the Million Dollar Round Table and has created webinars, top advisor toolkits, and other products for MDRT and other industry organizations. She also consults with Broker Dealers and some of the largest mutual fund and annuity companies. Maribeth has been featured in hundreds of publications including Business Week, Entrepreneur, and many industry publications including National Underwriter. Her passion is to help financial advisors use their brilliance so they can serve more of their ideal clients.

Topics:

1) New for 2009: The Connectors: How the World’s Most Successful Businesspeople Build Relationships and Win Clients for Life.
 
   Maribeth Kuzmeski delves into a powerful strategy for increasing sales and creating long-term business success. A strategy that many take for granted – relationships!  She has conducted hundreds of interviews and researched some of the world’s most successful “connectors” including CEO’s, top sales professionals, famous founders of companies and business leaders to find out how they built relationships and the correlation to their success. Based on her newest book: The Connectors - already in Amazon's Top 100 Business Books.

   She will share not only the specifics of the influence of relationships in successful businesses but will describe the tangible “how to’s” for developing better, more profitable connections. Maribeth will share the most powerful Connector Strategies that are working today to take your business relationships - and your business - to the next level!

2) Infuse Energy and Confidence into your Practice: 5 Strategies the Most Successful Advisors are Using to Gather More Assets NOW! 
   Find out the 5 strategies that the nation’s most successful financial advisors are using right now to gather NEW assets in these uncertain economic times. Maribeth Kuzmeski personally consults some of the nation’s top advisors managing from $250 million to over $1 billion in client assets. She will share their success strategies that are easily transferable, repeatable, and implementable by advisors at any stage of their business. Attendees will leave with immediate marketing ideas they can use to take advantage of the opportunities to earn new clients now!

3) Breaking The Barriers To Success: For Women Advisors

   The barriers to a woman's success in the financial services industry are the same as her distinct advantages.  The unique skills and abilities a woman posses are exactly the characteristics a top producer needs to succeed.  Learn how top women are taking this business and turning it upside down with success!

4) Red Zone Leadership for Managers

   How managers and executives can lead their team down the field to victory by following common sense strategies (often forgotten) and new leadership principles.  Attendees will discover how reinventing will solve many business challenges and guide their organization to higher levels of productivity, loyalty, and bottom line profits!  This is definitely not a typical leadership training session but a high level, entertaining, content filled program that shares and shows the strategies for leadership success!

5) Thriving, Not Just Surviving In Volatile Markets: Strategies from the Nation's Top Advisors 
   Maribeth Kuzmeski will share the strategies that the nation’s most successful financial advisors are using right now to thrive in volatile markets. For many of the nation’s top advisors, volatile market times offer opportunities that don’t exist at other times. Top advisors, in difficult market conditions, bring on more new clients, referrals increase, and they have dramatic gains in net new assets – often more than at any other time.

   Maribeth has conducted in-depth interviews to find out what's working right now with some of the most successful advisors who each are currently managing from $250 million to over $1 billion in client assets. She will share the results! Their success strategies are similar, easily transferrable, repeatable and implementable by all advisors. Attendees will leave with immediate ideas they can use to take advantage of the opportunities to earn new clients now!

6) Generating Extraordinary Sales Through Simple, Inexpensive Marketing
   Advisors will gain smart marketing ideas that will delight clients, build their brand, and generate a stream of qualified referrals. Discover proven communication and prospecting strategies that will differentiate, delight clients and prospects, and leave a memorable impression. Advisors using these strategies gather 15-30 referrals per month and are at the top of their respective firms in sales and new client acquisition. Attendees will leave with proven, tangible marketing ideas they can implement immediately for more success.

7) Creating a Referral Explosion...Without Asking!
   Discover extraordinary, referral-boosting strategies that can be implemented immediately to gain the best, most qualified leads into the business.  And, each idea has been proven to generate referrals without requiring the advisor to directly ask clients.  No scripts, memorization or methods that may not be sustainable in an advisor's busy practice.