Did you hear? Government’s R3.00 per litre reduction in the General Fuel Levy to cushion the blow of the Iran-conflict oil spike saved South Africa from a R10/litre hike. Nevertheless, it should be a clear “code red” for people’s disposable income, so budget resilience and protecting essential insurance cover should be top of mind.
This week in Seed Analytics Advisor Connect:
Upcoming events: Coffee & tech leadership connects.
Prospecting: Use these LinkedIn filters to find clients.
Scale without the admin when onboarding new clients.
New opportunities & jobs for you to explore in SA.
SA insurers hit R5 trillion & global property's turning point.
Prompt of the week: Let AI build your LinkedIn search string.
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How to use LinkedIn filters to find potential clients
3 steps to find and filter prospects or potential partners on LinkedIn…
One of the most used platforms in the world, LinkedIn has 1.2 billion active users and the distinct advantage of being the professional network, and thus, absolutely full of potential clients.
Not everyone wants to pay for Sales Navigator (LinkedIn’s premium subscription tool), though. But did you know even the free version of LinkedIn has more filtering power than most people realise?
With the right combination of search terms and filters, you can build a targeted list of business owners in a specific industry in under 10 minutes.
Here's the 3-step method…
1. Build your Boolean search string
Most advisors type "doctor" into LinkedIn search and get thousands of irrelevant results. The trick is using Boolean operators, simple commands that tell LinkedIn to combine, exclude or prioritise specific terms.
Try this: Type the following into LinkedIn's main search bar: (Owner OR Founder OR Director OR "Managing Partner") AND ("medical practice" OR "healthcare" OR "private practice") AND Gauteng.
Then hit enter, click "People", and click "All filters." From there, set your Location to South Africa (or a specific province), and set Connections to "2nd" to see people connected to people you already know, so that you can ask acquaintances to introduce you.
This takes you from potentially thousands of random results to a focused list of practice medical owners in your region. (Just replace “medical practice” with whatever niche you’re targeting.)
2. Read the profile before you reach out
This is where you have to play it cool; most people send a generic connection request the moment they find a match. But LinkedIn profiles are full of signals you can use to personalise your approach.
Before connecting, scan for: Recent posts (what are they talking about?), career milestones (did they just open a second practice?), and the "About" section (many business owners spell out their priorities right there).
Then send a connection request with a short, specific note. Not "I'd love to connect," rather send: "Saw your post about expanding to a second location in Pretoria. I work with several practice owners navigating the financial complexity of scaling, and I’d be happy to share what's worked for them if it's useful."
That's not a pitch. It's a relevance signal. And it gets accepted far more often.
3. Save and repeat weekly
The real power of this method isn't one search; it's making it a habit. LinkedIn lets you save searches, so your filtered list updates automatically as new people match your criteria.
Set a recurring 10-minute slot every Monday morning to review new profiles that match your saved search and send 3–5 personalised connection requests. Boost this by engaging with one or two posts from people already in your pipeline. Over a quarter, that's 50+ highly targeted new connections in your chosen niche — all from the free version of LinkedIn.
Note: Brokerage owners, this same method works for finding experienced advisors to recruit, identifying partnership opportunities or mapping competitor teams. The filters don't care what you're looking for, only that you're specific about it.
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Global Property’s Turning Point. Global listed property may be entering its most compelling phase in a decade. Sesfikile Capital notes that new global construction volumes have collapsed by 30% to 90% due to elevated funding costs and zoning constraints. As a result, demand is finally exceeding supply, particularly in AI-driven data centres and US senior housing.
Retirement is Becoming Optional. As longevity increases and traditional finish lines blur, a new advisor insight published this week highlights that retirement is becoming optional for many HNW clients. However, planning for this Grey Zone, where clients blend consulting, passion projects, and partial drawdowns, is more complex than ever.
Big Banks Shoulders Most Tax. A report highlights just how heavily the South African fiscus relies on its financial sector, with the Big Banks shouldering a massive R90 billion of the national tax burden.
Cape Town Trims Rates and Caps Tariffs. While most of the country braces for utility inflation, the City of Cape Town’s latest budget introduced rate trims and strict caps on tariff hikes. For property investors and HNW clients, this again cements the Western Cape as a predictable, well-governed enclave.
The TFSA & RA Savings Reality. A recent poll shows advisors are cautiously optimistic about the National Treasury’s 2026 decision to hike TFSA and RA contribution limits. However, 22% of respondents noted that only higher-income clients will realistically benefit.
Prompt of the week
If you want to search for high-net-worth prospects on LinkedIn…
LinkedIn's free search bar works great if you know how to create the Boolean operators and a targeted combination of keywords. But who has time to learn that stuff? This prompt lets AI build the search string for you.
How to use it:
Decide who you want to find (business owners, medical professionals, attorneys, etc.)
Decide which industry or sector they're in
Decide which region you're targeting
Paste the prompt below into any AI tool and fill in the three variables
Copy the output string directly into LinkedIn's main search bar
The Prompt:
You are a LinkedIn Boolean search specialist. Your task is to generate a precise Boolean search string that can be pasted directly into LinkedIn's free search bar to find potential high-net-worth prospects.
I will give you three inputs:
Role type: [DESCRIBE THE SENIORITY OR ROLE YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, e.g. "business owners and founders" or "C-suite executives" or "partners at professional firms"]
Industry or sector: [DESCRIBE THE INDUSTRY, e.g. "medical practices" or "commercial property" or "legal firms" or "engineering companies"]
Location: [THE REGION YOU WANT TO TARGET, e.g. "Gauteng" or "Cape Town" or "KwaZulu-Natal"]
Using these inputs, generate a single Boolean search string that:
Uses OR operators to cover common title variations for the role type (e.g. Owner, Founder, Director, Managing Partner, CEO, Principal).
Uses OR operators to cover common industry descriptions and synonyms for the sector.
Uses AND to combine role, industry and location into one string.
Wraps multi-word phrases in quotation marks.
Is formatted as a single line I can copy and paste directly into LinkedIn's search bar.
Also provide:
A brief explanation of what each part of the string does, so I understand how to modify it myself next time.
One alternative version of the string that broadens the search slightly (e.g. adding adjacent industries or a wider region).
Keep the output clean and ready to use. No preamble, no extra commentary beyond the explanation and the alternative.
Did You Know? On 2 March 1980, Microsoft released its first hardware product. The Z80 SoftCard was a microprocessor that you could plug into your Apple computer to allow it to run certain PC programmes. It brought in half of Microsoft’s revenue for years before being discontinued in 1986.
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