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Social Media for Financial Advisors: Webinar Recording

Loic Jeanjean, Director of Web Marketing at Advisor Websites hosted a free webinar about how Financial Advisors can become/remain active on social media sites. He also shared valuable tips and ideas on how to prospect, stay top of mind and stay in line with the latest FINRA and SEC guidelines. Here is the deck of […]

Search Engine Optimization - Part 3: Links

Years of SEO collaboration with financial services professionals has taught me one thing: Link building has to be the most challenging part of internet marketing plans for financial advisors. Not only is it an intricate mechanism to understand but also an even harder thing to do effectively. Unlike creating content for websites, researching keywords, defining […]

Seach Engine Optimization - Part 2: Content

Content is King! When it comes to search engine optimization, having high quality unique content is a crucial piece of the puzzle. Not only will it benefit your website’s overall performance but also will showcase professionalism and provide valuable information to your visitors. Latest studies suggest that Google top 10 websites have on average 943 […]

Gather Insights by Adding LinkedIn Recommendations to your Website

We’ve always been strong believers of Linkedin at Advisor Websites, not only because it’s the most used professional networking website in North America, but also for the potential it has in helping financial advisors grow their business and establish themselves as expert in their own community/industry. As I was going through all the RSS feeds […]

How to Add Valuable Resources to Your Financial Website

You have a great financial website and are pretty happy about it? Great! Now it’s time to engage with your customers and position your website as a must-see portal for all the financial needs of your clients. One way to achieve this is to add valuable content to your site. However, there are a few […]

LinkedIn DirectAds For Advisors - How To Succeed

Most financial advisors I have been talking have heard about pay-per-click or at least have seen some of these pay per placement ads on search engines like Google or Yahoo! These ads run on a bidding system that can prove very expensive for advisors trying to compete for keywords like ‘financial planning’ ‘investment advisor’. Over […]

Direct Mail VS E-mail Marketing

You have probably heard in recent conferences or business gathering that you should abandon old marketing methods in favor to online marketing. In today’s article, I will go over the pros and cons of using direct mail or e-mail marketing and try to show why e-mail marketing provides such a high ROI and positive response […]

Evolution of Marketing for Financial Advisors

This is the first part of a 5 week series on the evolution of marketing in the financial services industry. The series will cover the new and old marketing tools used by Financial Advisors, their advantages and disadvantages, the compliance rules about social media and will showcase 12 advisors that have been successfully incorporating social […]

Most Effective Marketing Techniques for Financial Advisors

Two months ago, we asked professionals of the financial services industry to go through a survey about marketing and advertising techniques. Over 600 advisors, financial planners and managers of financial/investment firms rated their most successful marketing tools, and shared their usage on social media. We’ve broken down each question in a separate chart to provide […]

Start a Conversation with LinkedIn Groups

Over the past couple of weeks we have been posting videos to help advisors understand and start using all the different features available on LinkedIn. Today, you will learn how to build new relationships quickly by joining industry or shared interest groups. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5CF1FEm_oA&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Some of the takeaways from this video are: *Share relevant content by […]