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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 […]

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 […]

Nurturing the Sales Funnel Using Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

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The dawn of the social media age has seen generations discover, adopt, and pass on the habit of social media usage to younger generations, resulting in even the youngest members of society using one or more sites on at least a semi-regular basis. Of course, social media has been around for more than a little […]

Should Financial Advisors Start Using New, Trending Social Media Platforms?

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  In this ‘Back to Basics’ series, I have already covered how to connect with your current contacts online, best practices for the 3 big social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn & Twitter), and what type of content to share on these networks. Because there are so many different social platforms, I am going to take this […]

Back To Basics: An Advisor’s Best Practices for Content Creation

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  Now that you have created your networks, connected online with your current contacts, and learned best practices for advisors on Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn as a financial firm, it is time to discuss the content that goes on these social platforms. You’ve all heard the saying, “Content is King,” and in today’s digital age, that […]

6 Ways Financial Advisors Can Use LinkedIn To Grow Their Business

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    For financial advisors, Linkedin can be a powerful tool. In an earlier guest post, The Importance of LinkedIn for Financial Service Providers, it is stated that 70% of the buyers surveyed listed LinkedIn as the social media platform they are most likely to turn to when gathering information on service providers. Not only […]