Let’s be honest: There probably are at least a few clients—maybe a lot—who simply aren’t right for you and your practice. Letting go of those clients can generate tremendous benefits—not just for your business, but for those clients who aren’t ideal for you. If you decide to transfer or sell clients to other advisors (either within your company or to an outside advisor), here are seven steps that will help you do so effectively.

I asked some of the top financial advisors in our elite, mastermind Roundtable Program to share their best ideas—the strategies that they have used to generate at least $150,000 in new revenues and that they believe other financial advisors could implement in their own practices to generate the same results.

There are seven steps to replicating ideal clients effectively. These steps will make the best use of your prospective client-seeking time, and will enable your favorite, most profitable clients to tell you how to work with other clients just like them.

The single best way to get more referrals from your satisfied clients is to stop asking them for those referrals. Instead of asking, offer those clients something of great value: a second-opinion service.

One of the most important business growth strategies you can implement as a financial advisor is to establish yourself as a top advisor among centers of influence—attorneys, accountants and other high-end professionals who work with the affluent clients you also want to serve.

Elite-level financial advisors are a diverse group. They serve a wide variety of clients and demographics. They organize their practices in numerous manners. And they define success in ways that can be unique and extremely personal to them. But they also share a lot of similarities—eight, in fact.

Being a thought leader is increasingly becoming a requirement for wealth managers who want to build very successful practices serving high-net-worth clients. A thought leader serves two powerful functions that will help you overcome the commoditization and competition challenges advisors face today. Maximizing current client relationships is one, and attracting affluent prospective clients the other. Result? To be positioned at the high end of the competence spectrum.

To garner affluent clients’ attention, bring them on board and successfully retain them over time, you need to know their hot-button issues—the key financial concerns that keep them up at night and the major financial challenges that could potentially derail their future.

Want to move upmarket and serve clients with more wealth than your existing client base? One of the most powerful steps you can take is to form strategic alliances with other professionals. Profitable strategic alliances are a hallmark of elite financial advisors earning at least $1 million a year.

With approximately 400,000 financial advisors practicing today, your major challenge is to stand out in a very crowded marketplace. The fact is, most clients can’t tell financial advisors apart anymore. The terms advisors call themselves have become largely meaningless, and most advisors’ “sales pitches” sound remarkably similar—and, frankly, pretty dull. The good news: There are two steps you can take that will clearly and definitively tell prospective clients and referral sources such as centers of influence how you are different from the pack and why they should work with you.

If you want more referrals from your clients, it’s time to stop asking them for names—and start offering a valuable service that can really help the people in their lives whom they care about most. Discover how the second-opinion service can help you generate a steady stream of ideal prospective clients.

You might be able to get a lot of referrals from your existing clients—but you’ll almost certainly get higher-quality, more profitable referrals from attorneys, accountants and other centers of influence who regularly work with the affluent. Check out how COIs can help you move upmarket and supercharge your growth.

When financial advisors and other business owners learn from each other in formal settings known as mastermind groups, great things can happen. That’s why so many elite financial advisors are part of these groups. Check out all the ways you can accelerate your success by joining a high-performance mastermind group of driven entrepreneurs like you.

Deliver an extraordinary experience to high-net-worth clients—time and time again. Build a great financial advisory business—and a great life!

If you want to work with the Super Rich—or even clients who aspire to become extraordinarily affluent—it’s a good idea to understand how this group thinks about building, enhancing and protecting wealth.

Did you know affluent investors have multiple personalities? Check out the nine HNW personality types that every financial advisor needs to understand to serve the wealthy and score big. Build a great business—and a great life!

Don’t try to serve anyone and everyone—release those clients who just aren’t a good fit for your practice. Build a great financial advisory business—and a great life!

Every financial advisor wants highly loyal clients. It means you don’t have to hunt as much for new assets, and it helps ensure a steady revenue stream over time. But unless you possess six key traits that foster rock-solid client loyalty—and demonstrate to your clients that you actually possess those traits—you risk stalling out instead of accelerating your success. Don’t let that happen! Check out my latest episode of The Elite Advisor Report to discover the six Cs of client loyalty—what they look like, how to implement them in your business, and how to make sure you communicate them to your clients.

When you seek out someone to help you with an important task or project—at the office or around your house—whom do you look for: an amateur or an expert? I know who I want helping me—and I bet you feel the same way. Therefore, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that when seeking help with their wealth, the affluent want to work with experts—people they perceive to possess the talent and other key characteristics required to help them achieve all that is truly important to them. That means if you want to attract the affluent—and you should—you need to position yourself as the go-to expert among the specific types of high-net-worth clients you most want to serve and can serve extremely well (and profitably).

As financial advisors look to move up the hierarchy of —in many cases aiming for the elite level characterized by advisors earning incomes of $1 million or more—one fact becomes crystal clear: You’ve got to stop being reactive in your business—responding to whatever appears before you and saying yes to any prospective clients who cross your path. Instead, you need to become highly proactive and deliberate about your choices.