{"id":4447,"date":"2020-01-15T08:36:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2020-01-15T08:36:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:36:09","slug":"there-are-no-sure-things-there-are-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=4447","title":{"rendered":"There are no sure things, there are opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I\u2019ve spoken to other plan providers about sure things they are working on, all I later see are missed opportunities. There are no sure things in this business, there are opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Even when you have a signed contract with certain retirement plan projects such as starting a new multiple employer plan, it\u2019s still not a sure thing because you still got to bring assets over to make a go of it. The sales process is long, tedious, and at certain points, not fun. It\u2019s a marathon with enough twists and turns because selling retirement plans isn\u2019t the same as selling products that are impulse purchases like candy at the supermarket checkout line.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen many opportunities fall by the wayside that was supposed. to be sure things because of the cockiness of the provider and them counting their eggs before they\u2019re hatched.<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I\u2019ve spoken to other plan providers about sure things they are working on, all I later see are missed opportunities. There are no sure things in this business, there are opportunities. Even when you have a signed contract &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=4447\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4448,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/4448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}