EP539: Debra Angilletta - Numbers Only Tell Half The Story: Ask Better Questions To Sell Advisory
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Debra Angilletta discusses how to bridge the gap between financial data and client perspectives to enhance advisory sales.
See what the team at The Successful Bookkeeper has on right now → Your clients' financials tell one story. What your clients think about their business tells another. In this episode, fractional CFO, course creator, and speaker Debra Angilletta returns to show how closing that gap — through simple, curiosity-driven conversations — is the most direct path to selling advisory services. No complicated sales process required. Chapters [00:00] Opening Quote and Intro [01:35] Meet Debra Angilletta [03:30] Why Bookkeepers Struggle to Sell Advisory [06:10] The "Curious" Question Technique [09:20] Staying Human in a Digital World [11:50] Finding Your First Five Clients [14:30] The Advisory Transformation [17:30] What 100 Business Owners Said [20:30] About the Book: Hidden Profits [22:40] Rapid Fire: Steps to Take Now The Missing Half of the Story Numbers give you the facts; your client's perspective gives you the context. Debra frames advisory as the natural result of putting those two pieces together: "When you put those two pieces of information together, that's where the magic happens, and that's where you can fill the gap." The good news is you already have one half. You just need to…
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