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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 […]

Measure the ROI of your Social Media Marketing Campaign [CHECKLIST]

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  We hear it all the time… social media ROI is hard measure, but it is possible! When you run a new marketing campaign for your financial firm, whether it be a local/online event promotion or a lead-generating whitepaper give-away, there are ways to track your social media return on investment. Below is a checklist of metrics […]

Get Busy Living [digitally], or Get Busy Dying

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Anyone familiar with the masterpiece movie “The Shawshank Redemption” with Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman will remember this quote, with a slight modification. I added the “digitally” to the title, and it’s what kept echoing in my head as I read the annual World Wealth Report released by Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management. The annual report […]

Make Your Original Blog Content Worth Your While

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  Now that you have written optimized, relevant, original content for your audience (15-Point Blog Optimization Checklist), today I want to help you not only maximize the reach and exposure of this content, but also learn how to stretch this content as much as possible to benefit and grow your business. There are 2 crucial […]

Attracting the Next Generation of Clients. Are You Ready for the Next Shift?

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By Joanna Belbey. As people get older, their wealth is inherited by younger generations. Today, the Boomer generation holds a great deal of wealth which has begun shifting to their children, and will shift eventually to their children. To avoid losing out, Financial Advisors and Producers need to be prepared for this shift, and for the differences […]

3 Tips for Hosting a Successful Financial Advisor Conference: Lessons from #FPABE

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  Having spoken at hundreds of conferences on the topics of social media and digital marketing, I’ve seen the gamut of good, bad, and ugly when it comes to hosting an event. It’s not easy. A lot of planning and prep goes into hosting a successful financial advisor conference. I recently returned from FPA BE […]

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 #1 Blogging Secret That Changed My Business…

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By Joe Simonds. When I first began blogging back in 2010, I had no freaking idea what I was doing. There was no one in our industry teaching “How to properly blog”, and I was too thick-headed (and too cheap) to take a course or ask for help. I figured that I was smart enough […]

Social Media Advertising for Your Financial Firm: A Necessary Tool

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  Last fall, Twitter finally went public and solidified that all the major social networks are now publicly traded entities. With all the hype around the release of their IPO’s, some forgot to consider how this would affect their users and the interface that they had grown to know and love. Because of increasing pressure […]

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 […]