Brian Ouellette

9:07 AM Tuesday. Two advisors. Same message from a top client: “Told a friend about you.” One had an ODP™ link. One did not. 1:18 PM Friday. One closed dream client. The other? Crickets. Why’d one win?👇Click below

"The best clients come from referrals, there is no exception."

Brian Ouellette, a University of Washington graduate, began his career on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) as a runner before returning to Seattle to build his private client practice at PaineWebber. In 2000, he became the Market Commentator for Q13 FOX News This Morning, reporting live daily for over 3 ½ years and making more than 3,000 live TV appearances during one of the most significant boom-and-bust cycles in stock market history.

In 2004, he sold his book of business and founded Shoewallet Active Gear, a product featured on NBC's Today Show, CNN, NY1, and over 250 radio stations, as well as in publications like Shape and Runner's World. Shoewallet produced private label versions for Boeing, the Department of Defense, Skechers, and more across the U.S. and Canada.

In 2010, after reading Sports Illustrated’s "How & Why Athletes Go Broke," Brian recognized the urgent need for athletes to have better advisors. This led him to create Pro Athlete Direct™, an education-based marketing service for advisors to help athletes manage their finances, taxes, legal matters, and real estate needs. His experience helped him develop a system that allowed advisors to build strong connections with sports agents and their athlete clients, guiding them in making strategic financial decisions.

Brian has coached a range of trusted advisors across the U.S. and internationally, including former pro athletes, Barron's Top 100 advisors, Forbes Top Wealth Advisors, and top-producing realtors.

After over 20,000 hours of coaching and R&D, the AskMyAdvisor® referral app was born. This software provides trusted advisors—financial advisors, attorneys, realtors—with a simple way for their top clients to connect them with the people in their lives, making recurring referrals effortless.

“Let’s get straight to the point. After a career as a financial advisor and a coach to the industry’s best, I turned to software for one reason: I discovered how to increase referrals by 800%. The secret? Strip away the complexities that kill referrals. Focus on one thing—a single, exclusive pathway for referrals, accessible only by the top 20% of your client and COI relationships. This approach isn’t just a shift from the old way; it’s revolutionary. And it led directly to the creation of the AskMyAdvisor® Method & OS. Once you see it, you won’t just use it—you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it.” – Brian Ouellette

Learn more at tip.askmyadvisor.co/webinar

Founder

After 10 years & +20,000 hours of R&D, we have built the first Q&A app for you (accountants, attorneys, financial advisors, realtors) to share with your top 25 clients to strengthen those relationships & tap into new ones, quickly. 

How does it work? AskMyAdvisor Referral Method Software provides client-facing accountants, attorneys, financial advisors, realtors, venture capitalists, and other trusted advisors with a frictionless method of retaining and growing their best clients. By using the software, they can avoid tech overwhelm, resulting in 5-10 times more referrals on a recurring basis, while working only with clients they love.

It's a simple solution to the problem, "Oh, you've got to call my guy!" Or,  "My financial advisor's great, email her." 

Instead you just share your dedicated URL (format follows: askmyadvisor.app/YOURNAMEOFCHOICE) as a dedicated channel to Q&A where your top clients & the people in their lives can easily ask their questions, get second opinions, etc. 

Members also receive the Phone App (for instant notifications allowing our members to reply to questions within minutes) & get access to The Network. 

This is our private community of our advisor members, who are elite accountants, attorneys, financial advisors, realtors from the US & abroad, to come together. 

This is a private think tank.

Think of it as a Facebook Group  on steroids (BTW, it's our community built from the ground up, so no FB login).

ATTN: Established (3+ yrs) accountants, attorneys, consultants, financial advisors, realtors, and other trusted advisors.

You agree that referrals are king, yes?
(If that is not an emphatic yes, skip this post.)

So why do “good referrals” die?
Not because people are lazy.

Because the handoff process to refer is a mess.
Email intro?
Phone number swap.
Who contacts who?
Advisor taking referrals?
Can non client ask a question?
Endless back and forth...

All of it is confusion wrapped in different ways.
 
Which leads the referral to...
Dead on arrival from one 🤬dirty word: delay.

The good news, we found the fix.
Fix: Have a standard for all referrals.

Have One Direct Path (ODP) for all referrals.
One path to you. One standard.
One link. One controlled flow.
One thing to remember instead of 10.

In an emergency, how many options are there? One.
You call 911. That's a standard.

Referrals should be no different, but they're are.

What happens with one direct path?
One link replaces the steps, questions and confusion that cause delay.

Fixing this one killer, what happens?
More referrals. Faster. Cleaner. No chasing.

Want the full One-Page PDF Blueprint based on this (image)?

Comment PDF and I will send it.
Just had coffee with Nate Short about this exact topic (I'll send PDF your way!)


P.S. Per this post, who is the first person who comes to mind? 
Using the toolbar to share makes it easy to send their way. 
Worse case, you let them know you're thinking of them. 
Better case, you help them remove this referral killer.

Founder, The AskMyAdvisor® OS. 🔐SOC 2 compliant software. Advisor built for Advisors. “Referrals are king. Delay is the killer. One link removes delay. That is all.”

𝐈𝐟 911 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫* 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐬, people would die. Seriously.

𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬:
You have an emergency.

But instead of dialing 911, you have to:

→ Dig through contacts
→ Guess which number to call
→ Wonder who reaches out to who
→ Leave a voicemail
→ Hope someone responds

Absurd, right?

911 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝.

One number.
No thinking.
No delay.
Lives saved.

𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐬.
Client polls show 90% say they would refer their advisor.
But only 10% actually do.

That missing 80%?
They do not forget you.
They get stuck.

Confusion = delay.

𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐬.

No clear process.
No single path.
Too many options.
Too much friction.

𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 "𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫" 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫.

It is worse.

Two paths split attention 50%.

Ten paths kill it completely.

We found the fix.

𝐖𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐃𝐏™

It is one standard.
One clear referral path.
Not two. Not ten. One.

𝐓𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮:
Clients and advisor friends share one link.
Zip their lips.
That's it.

No confusion. No delay.

Standards create action.

Clarity converts.

𝐅𝐮𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭
Referral are King.
Advisors spend over $50B/yr. on sales and marketing.
Yet, still miss the king killer: Delay.

Remove delay with one direct path the game changes.

Not in weeks or months.

In about 10 minutes.

𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐭, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐎𝐃𝐏™
DM me or comment below: "one link"


P.S. While reading this, who is that one advisor friend who came to mind?
Before sharing it, here’s what happens when you ping them...
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞: you show you're thinking of them.
𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞: you help them.
𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐬: you’re the one who put the AskMyAdvisor® Method on their radar first.
Either way, it’s worth a ping.

*𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘴, 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴.

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Most SaaS companies need days or weeks of work to earn one sales call.

Ads. Posts. DMs. Emails. Webinars.
Then the call.
Then maybe a customer.

We flipped that.

None of the above. 

Instead it’s one self serve path in 90 seconds.

First value lands at 37 seconds.

Steve Gordon  Bill Cates, Unlocking Exponential Growth  Pierre Herubel Wes Bush … a few simplifiers who understand this. 

We release in less than 72 hours.
Message me, or comment VIP to get on the early list.


P.S. Reserve your private AdvisorOneLink🔑 when you get on the list. Format is:
askmyadvisor.app/your-name
One link. No delay. More referrals.

The avg. COI (per person) is now 600+. This is a combo of Facebook, x, Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack;)

So think about this…
10 clients, advisors, friends of yours have a reach of 6,000
25 a reach of 15,000+

That’s there size of an arena!Birds of a feather flock together.

Moral of the story… if you want to replicate your top 10 client and advisor relationships? Get more intros/referrals from them.

Easiest path to do this. Standardize how referrals get to you. 

Like 911 is the standard for emergencies. Have one standard path all referrals reach you. 

Not two. Not 10. Just one. We call it one direct path.

Open article: Brian Ouellette (@askmyadvisor) by substack.com

Over the past decade, I've been a growth architect for businesses, helping them grow with strategically sound systems, not the latest hype.

My mission is twofold:

1) Share B2B growth strategies meant for SMEs (small and medium enterprises), to achieve growth through digital channels.

2) To build an autonomous AI system that will allow us to automate business growth.

I also sprinkle a bit of AI into the growth strategies to make it extra good 🌶️ (and spicy).

What I do:
→ I'm the founder & CEO of Buro Ventures, a venture garden that instead of flowers - plants, nurtures and grows businesses.
→ I run Growth Garden, a digital hub for B2B companies that want to grow, providing guidance and tools.
→ I teach 350+ aspiring entrepreneurs about entrepreneurship and building businesses in SATCO, our incubator program.
→ I advise SMEs in growth hacking, inbound and outbound marketing strategies, AI, and automation.

Follow for resources, strategies, tools, and systems. 

If you want my hands-on help to growth, I'd like to talk:

→ Send me a DM on Linkedin, or send me an email at "harald@buroventures.com"

If you want to get my guidance and access to tools to help you, you can join Growth Garden:

→ GO HERE: https://go.buroventures.com/b2b-offer-vsl2

X/Twitter: @harroi
YouTube: @haraldroine
Instagram: @haraldroine

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Experience:
↪︎ 18 years of website development and creation
↪︎ 14 years of experience in digital entrepreneurship
↪︎ 14 years of experience running successful digital marketing campaigns
↪︎ 1-year leadership experience from the Royal Norwegian Air Force

Roles:
↪︎ Founder of BURO Ventures, a digital consultancy and venture group aiming to develop the infrastructure of tomorrow's workplace.
↪︎ Founder of Fitnessfryd, a digital PT service offering workout and nutritional advice online.
↪︎ Founder Coach51, an organization empowering coaches to transform the world and make 51% thrive by 2051. 
↪︎ Project Manager and Digital Marketing Specialist at Inspiro Group AS.
↪︎ Digital Marketing Specialist at Inspiro Group AS.
↪︎ Creator of SocialUpcoming, an e-business education platform.
↪︎ Previously Content Manager at Prisguiden.no.

Specialties: 
Business strategy
Lead generation
Digital marketing strategies
Digital growth strategies
AI development
Automation systems
Digital business development
E-learning course marketing
Idea development
Market research
Social media marketing
Search engine research and marketing

Harald Røine

55,000 people asked for this…
And it broke B2B marketing and GTM on LinkedIn.

November 2024 I shared the B2B protocol.
A system that has generated $15M in revenue for clients using it. 

It generated 170,000 comments on LinkedIn for BURO alone in 2025, and countless more for clients and people using it.

Since sharing it the first time, countless people have tried to steal it, reverse engineer it, or even posted it as their own system. 

But everyone is missing a fundamental thing.

They didn't create it, so it's hard to properly implement it.

That's why I've created a tutorial video going through it all.

In the video I share:

1️⃣ How the lead generation elements work, so you can sit back and get leads coming to you.

2️⃣ How we nurture and book leads automatically, cause we use a engagement, trust and gravity system.

3️⃣ How we track and score leads in a way that allow you to focus on the best leads - always. 

Want it?

✅ Comment "B2B" below and I'll send it over.

(Repost for good karma with the B2B marketing gods)

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Access it here: https://lnkd.in/epyrvh7N

I help founders scale through trust-based marketing │ Founder & CEO @ Buro Ventures

This AI marketing team generated 6,500+ leads in a month.
(Copy the exact prompts)

I put my top-performing marketing strategies into an AI marketing team (55,000+ leads generated in 2025).

The prompts run in under 5 minutes.

They build a team of six AI agents:

Market researcher
Offer builder
Expert copywriter
Funnel architect
Nurturing specialist
Conversion master

It does months of marketing agency work in hours, completely for free.

Want the AI Marketing Team?

➾ Comment "TEAM"
➾ Connect with me and Lasse Flagstad and we'll send it to you

BONUS: Repost and I'll also send you my Sonnet 4.5 GTM Orchestration prompts (90-Day plan in 30 minutes)

This free prompt flow does $30k+/month market research work.
(Steal it)

It uses Sonnet 4.5 to pull buyer pains from public threads, then turns them into angles + headlines + hooks you can ship today.

Here's how it works:

→ Extracts 25+ emotionally charged ICP quotes, so you get a database of what hurts them and how your offer helps.

→ Eliminates surface-level insights by finding the hidden objections others miss, so your offer is objection-proof before the sales call

→ Delivers a conversion guide (where to say what, and in what order), so your LinkedIn posts + ads move prospects to calls.

It turns vague "ideal customer profiles" into a tactical brief in under 10 minutes.

I'm sharing it for free.

Want the flow?

→ Comment "RESEARCH"
→ Connect with me and Lasse Flagstad  and we'll DM it to you

→ BONUS: Repost and I'll also send you the Sales Bottleneck Mapper prompts

The AI Growth Guy for B2B Founders │ Founder & CEO @ Buro Ventures

This is crazy. I built our first AI employee… literally
It runs 24/7, and cost pennies. This is how:

before and over the weekend, I've been playing around with Clawdbot and created our own AI employee.

Now I recorded a video about it, and how you can create yours.

Comment "AI" and I'll send over the video to you on DM

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Access it here: https://lnkd.in/ec5n8b6R

ChatGPT-5.2 booked me 21 calls in one week.
Here are the prompts I used:

1. Audience Analyzer: Sweeps LIVE data to analyze your ICP's digital footprint and build a profile of their pain points and buying triggers.

2. Offer Analyzer: Builds an offer based on logical arguments and price anchors it to present it as the logical solution for your ICP.

3. Ad Copywriter: Creates scroll-stopping ads that are built specifically for each chosen platform based on its extensive knowledge base.

4. VSL Writer: Writes a video script that explains your methodology and presents you as an industry expert.

5. Email Writer: Warms up leads by sending nurturing emails that provide impactful insights to showcase your expertise.

6. Sales Assistant: Generates a sales playbook based on each lead's pain points to boost your closing rates.

These 6 prompts collectively generated 55,000+ leads and 15+ weekly calls in 2025.

Want them?

✓ Comment "SICK"
✓ Connect with me and Lasse Flagstad and we'll send them to you

🎁 BONUS: Repost and I'll also send you my B2B Content Strategy Playbook (Builds 300+ resources from 1 audio transcript)

This system generated 65,000 leads from LinkedIn in 2025
(Steal it for yourself)

I recently recorded a 30 minute video on the exact system we used to generate 65,000 inbound leads for BURO in 2025.

It covers:

1️⃣ How we generate attention that converts to leads

2️⃣ How we build trust at scale, by running the “trust flywheel”

3️⃣ How we convert by converting trust to deals.

Want access?

✅ Follow me
✅ Comment "YES" below, and I'll send it on DM

(repost, for karma and share it with other's you think would benefit from it)

You can now do $100,000+ market research with ChatGPT.
(GPT-5.2 Prompts).

I've been helping B2B founders for 10+ years.

A lot of them simply didn't have the budget to pay for "elite" market research.

High-end consulting shouldn't be gated behind six figures.

So I designed prompts that do it for free.

The prompts scan G2, Reddit, and niche forums to harvest 40-60 quote-backed insights → Reconstruct your strategy from the ground up based on audience insights → Build a full content pipeline based on your ideal buyer's psychological profile.

They even find actual LinkedIn profiles of people who match the extracted psychographic data.

All in under 30 minutes.

I'm sharing the full prompts + setup guide.

Want them?

Comment "PROMPTS"
Connect with me and Lasse Flagstad so we can send them to you

BONUS: Repost and I'll also send you our full GPT-5.2 Business Suite (GTM Planner, Marketing Swarm, Sales Agent, and Offer Builder)

This system closed 3 new clients in 1 week.
(I'm giving it away for free)

I built an offer creation system powered by Gemini 3.0 back in November (when it dropped).

I closed 3 new clients in the first week I used it.

The system:

➜ Builds a long-term memory bank that Gemini is currently missing (there's no "projects" feature in Gemini).

➜ Fills that memory bank with prospect pain language, immediate needs, and review.

➜ Runs LIVE competitor analysis with Gemini's live web search.

➜ Analyzes competitor webpages and offer snapshots with its multimodal understanding.

➜ Builds an adaptive offer that shifts to competitor and market changes.

Want it?

➜ Comment "ACCESS"
➜ Connect with me and Lasse Flagstad so we can send it to you

BONUS: Repost and I'll also send you my full Gemini 3.0 B2B Marketing Engine (pulled 1,000+ new leads last week)

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