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This Month's Registered Representative Opportunity: This nationwide Independent Broker-Dealer has proven it's service capabilities through thick and thin since 1993.  This B-D offers choices of clearing through Bear Stearns Securities Corp, as well as Fiserv Securities.  The B-D has one of the highest "average production per rep" statistics of most Independent B-Ds.   The typical experienced reps and advisors joining this B-D come from a variety of wirehouses, banks, & regional firms. Therefore, this B-D has proven it can service the experienced reps who have built a strong business catering to the traditional commission clientele, fee-based clients, institutional clients, and clients of high-net-worth who even demand alternative investment opportunities such as Private Placements and IPO's. This B-D has a very experienced back-office staff to support the successful Reps and Advisors needs for stocks, bonds, options, 12,000 mutual funds, hundreds of variable annuities and insurance products, varieties of packaged fee-based programs for access to separate account managers and wrap accounts, RIA support, nondiscretionary commission alternative programs, managed futures, reits, mortgage lending, and cash management accounts.  This B-D offers up-to 90% payout, transition planning assistance, computer purchase support, on-line rep workstation tools, real-time rep order entry, advanced portfolio reporting tools, branch level on-line new account opening and on-line cashiering functions, and the end-client on-line account access. For this and other Registered Representative opportunities, please visit www.goingindependent.com (go to our Opportunities section and click on Hotjobs) or contact Mitch Vigeveno directly at 727-725-8876. This month's Featured Article: Efficient Business Plans By David L. Lawrence   Much has been written about the process of building a business plan. As we are approaching the end of 2004, this may be a good time to start thinking about what you want to accomplish in 2005 and beyond. Most written business plans follow a pattern that takes the business from a conceptual level (i.e. vision or mission) to the objectives and steps to reach goals. Last things first One approach to creating a business plan for your practice is to start with the end in mind. This may sound, at first glance, like trying to forecast revenue and if this is your only goal, then so be it. However, the end might be defined as something other than money. It could be the growth of assets under management or the increase in personal time for you. It could be to develop more focus in your practice or expand into new service and/or product areas. And yes, it could also mean a compensation or revenue target. Defining what it is you hope to accomplish in a given year may ultimately take on bigger proportions than just a single year. Many advisors have found it helpful to develop a longer range plan, say 3 to 5 years or more. Then, break down the goals and objectives of that longer range plan into a year by year plan of action. This gives you quantifiable goals that may easily be translated into a system to monitor your progress throughout any given year.     David Lawrence is President of David Lawrence and Associates, a practice efficiency consulting firm. He has over twenty years experience in the financial services profession. He spent 18 years with a major financial planning firm as a Senior Financial Advisor, Training Manager and District Manager. He has also worked for two large independent financial planning and asset management companies in senior management positions. He has been frequently quoted by such national publications as Barron's, Financial Planning Interactive, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal Online to name a few. He has also made frequent appearances on NBC and FOX television affiliates. He is a sought after public speaker on a variety of financial and technical topics. He is the current President of the Financial Planning Association of Tampa Bay and is active in that organization on a national level. Mr. Lawrence currently writes a monthly column on practice efficiency issues for Financial Advisor Magazine.  www.efficientpractice.com.

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