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The Assets of Your Company: The Content Experts are Nearby

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  Look around at the people within your organization – the marketers, product managers and management team – why did you choose to hire them? They were hired because they are the best of the best. Those employees who are helping with your company’s success on a daily basis are some of the biggest assets […]

Why Advisors Need To Get Social: 3 Social Media Success Stories To Convince You

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  Who doesn’t love a good success story? Now that even more financial advisors are using social media, some of the resulting success stories are pretty impressive. Just like winning the lottery, your chances of gaining a $10 million account from one Facebook “like” are pretty slim, but it does happen. WHERE: LinkedIn   WHAT: […]

The Best of the Best: Top Blogs That All Financial Advisors Should Be Following

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If you know us at all at Financial Social Media, you know we like to provide you with the best of the best — the best thought leaders, information, and resources you need to know about to stay ahead of the game as a financial advisor. Today we’ve compiled the top blogs that professionals in […]

4 Things Financial Advisors Shouldn't Be Doing on LinkedIn

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I speak on social media at several conferences throughout the year and have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to booths. Some have interactive TV displays and are buzzing with people while others are nothing more than a generic tablecloth and sterile white sign stating the company name. The same […]

Advisors, Are Your Calls-To-Action Weak? 10 Signs They Need an Overhaul.

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Have you ever developed an addiction to downloading free offers? Last week, I was perusing thorough the HubSpot website and couldn’t help but notice myself compulsively downloading e-book after e-book—everything from social media marketing to website creation. Normally, I’m hesitant when it comes to signing up for free offers, but on this occasion I was […]

The Number One Marketing Mistake

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Maribeth Kuzmeski, marketing guru and president of Red Zone Marketing, is someone we’re always happy to call a friend. Maribeth has led her firm in consulting with some of the nation’s top financial professionals and advisors. She knows her stuff. Today Maribeth shares what she identifies as the number one marketing mistake made by financial […]

Please Announce Yourself

If the niche you serve is similar to you or your current life stage, you may literally have lists handed or emailed to you that are perfect prospects or influencers. Only these lists are not yet in your emailable database….they may be the soccer team’s roster, your church directory, or the preschool class email list. So […]

Avoid the Black Hole: How to get the most out of your subscribers

One of the most important advisor marketing objectives is to build your list by collecting email addresses on your web site. Here’s how this plays out for many advisors. On your web site, you have a request to join your list: Join our Mailing list Sign up for our e-newsletter Subscribe to my blog Then […]

7 Ways Social Media Can Make You Smarter

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  Last year, I explored the land of Twitter for the first time in my life. Like many skeptical financial advisors, I didn’t see the point. Twitter [among an exhaustive list of other social media platforms] seemed like another technological creation to add to the clutter. Regardless of my first impressions, I tossed my inhibitions out […]

Doing Things Really Different

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  When was the last time you tried something really different in your business? For most businesses, trying something new is risky. And for many we are trying to avoid risk, not add to the complexity of our business. And furthermore, there are the pessimists that believe that most new tactics really won’t work – so […]