Deliver More for Your Customers and Employees with Affordable Access to Estate Planning
Estate planning is an essential part of planning for the future, though many people fail to plan for this eventuality. As an institution, helping your customers and employees create an estate plan isn’t just a perk; it says that you care about them and their family. It’s a simple way to show them that you care about their personal and family wellness.
While estate planning options are not mandated, it is important for you to offer it to your customers and employees. It’s about wanting to go above and beyond and provide that extra service. In reality, estate planning is essential, because the unintended consequences of not having any plan can be rather painful.
Here’s why offering estate planning to customers and employees is good for them and good for institutions.
Build Trust With Your Clients
By offering estate planning, you can build upon the trust you already have with your customers and employees. On one hand, offering an added benefit of estate planning solutions is a natural fit with clients who already trust you with one part of their life’s planning. If someone has already converted to a customer and trusts you with one item, it’s much easier to provide another complementary service.
On the other hand, offering this added benefit like legacy and estate planning is a simple way to establish even more trust. Customers subconsciously understand that you have a comprehensive focus, and care about the holistic picture of someone’s financial life, not just the bottom line. It also shows that you truly care about them and the future of their family even when they are gone.
Improve Your Customer Service
Estate planning is an added benefit and a way to augment the high caliber customer service you already offer your clients. It’s a natural extension that gives your clients that extra feeling that you care and are looking out for their best interest, while delivering an experience they would get nowhere else.
It Increases Long-Term Wellness
Estate planning isn’t just about designating where wealth goes, but improving the long-term wellness of the family. When customers are gone, an estate plan designates where their wealth goes, making the process of dealing with a loved one’s death easier and less stressful. When a person does not have an estate plan, this can cause confusion and indecision (and the laws of the state (probate court) will take control and decide who gets what), further upsetting an already grieving family. When you offer estate planning as an institution, it shows that you truly care about your customers and employees as actual people with lives and families outside of the company.
It Stems Attrition
Employees want more out of work than just a paycheck. They are looking for organizations that share the same values as them and care about them as people, not just as warm bodies filling a position. By offering benefits such as estate planning, you show that you care about your employees as people and that you hold the same values as them, like the importance of family. This can also lead to increased employee loyalty, which can stem attrition and instead, improve employee retention.
It’s an Extension of Your Services
You are already helping your client plan for things like retirement and asset strategy. Estate planning is an integral part of the financial planning conversation and an extension of your services. You are already having these types of conversations with your clients, so incorporating estate planning is a natural fit. Naturally, your customers will look to you for the trusted choice in building their estate plan, and we know that OneDigitalTrust is a simple way to offer a solution they will trust.
Prioritize Relationships Over Transactions
We’ve touched on this throughout this article, but finally, offering estate planning to your clients and employees brings a relational side to your business. Estate planning isn’t about your bottom line; it’s about the human lives of the people who do the planning and their loved ones. It allows you to move past the business side of your interactions with customers and employees and create deeper, trusting relationships that build loyalty.
At OneDigitalTrust, we have reinvented personal legacy and estate planning, helping users create and maintain their plan through all life states and events, and helping advisors and institutions provide an even better customer experience. Life moves too fast for old-school estate planning approaches. Get your customers and employees an “always on” capability right in their pocket. Trust us, they will thank you for it!