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How to Grow Your Email List

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  By now we should all know how important an email list is. Despite all the new fangled ways to communicate and keep in touch, the simple, mild-mannered email still continues to dominate the field. It’s stickier than social media and more precise than a blog post. As an advisor, email is one of the […]

Your Social Presence: Diamonds & What Happens on the Internet Are Forever

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Understanding Your Social Presence Back when it was more commonly known as the ‘World Wide Web,’ the internet was seen as an ‘other’ space, one that existed beyond the reaches of The Real World. What happened on the internet wasn’t to be taken seriously – it wasn’t real. Within the last few years this rather strange […]

Why Good Aesthetic is Important to Your Website

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Today we’ll focus on one of the two primary mediums of a website, visual elements, and why it’s important to utilize it. Get the Look We love to look at things that look good. We can’t help it, our eye is instinctively drawn to appealing visuals — catching colour, clean lines, simple design, interesting graphics, […]

The Glossary of Web Marketing Terms for Financial Advisors

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The vocabulary of any financial web marketer can take a little time to catch onto. Digital marketing lingo dominates forums, social networks, and blogs from around the web, so it’s important that advisors have a grasp on the basics. We have compiled a list of some of the most popular web marketing terminology to keep […]

Why It’s Essential To Update Your Web Browser - Part 2

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This is the second part of the series, Why It’s Essential To Update Your Web Browser. (see part 1 here) Browser Breakdown Here’s a breakdown of browsers that are the most widely used today: Google Chrome As of July 2014, a traffic website analysis tool (StatCounter) estimated that 45% of web browser users around the […]

Why it’s Essential to Update Your Web Browser - Part 1

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Let’s be honest, how often are you on the Internet? Once a week? maybe once a day? Perhaps even a few times a day? If you’re anything like me, you’re on it the entire day. Now let me just clarify before we starting jumping to conclusions. I’m not on Facebook or doing online shopping all […]

3 Ways To Grow Your Marketing Lists Online

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Here’s a sad-but-true fact: email marketing databases degrade by about 25% every year. Your contacts may chance their email addresses, moving from one company to another, they may unsubscribe from your email communication, or they abandon that old AOL address they only use to fill out forms on websites. Prospects who buy do so because they […]

How To Create a Google+ Business Page

By Sara Ruthnum. Google is the champ of search engines, and since we know that the average consumer turns to Google more than ever to research relevant products and services, it is more important than ever to turn up in relevant search results. First, as always, having a website is crucial to an advisors success. However, […]

The Essentials of Google Analytics for Financial Blogging

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By Sara Ruthnum. The modern marketer is one part artist and one part scientist. Not only do you have to be creative, engaging the senses of your web traffic, but also you have to remember the numbers – measuring the successes (or failures) of your marketing strategies. Taking a look at the numbers, from the successful […]

How Financial Professionals Can Find Which Keywords They Should Target

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By Sara Ruthnum. So you’ve been reading our blog lately, and realized that content marketing is a valuable component to your financial web marketing strategy. But even more important is to have a fresh and interesting blog to improve your SEO (search engine optimization) rankings. But what’s the next steps in optimizing your blog to rank […]