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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 […]

Do You Make These 7 Branding Mistakes as a Financial Advisor?

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There are plenty of bases to cover before your company can be successful. You have to address issues like production, ad budgets, profit margins, sales channels, and capital acquisition. Once you find solutions to these problems, you can begin focusing on generating revenue and growing your business.Well, almost. There’s one more very important question to […]

Sailing Into Social Media: The Tale of the Titanic Retold

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On this day one 100 years ago, the infamous Titanic had already departed on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic. Most of us are well aware of the famous James Cameron film inspired by the Titanic and its doomed voyage, but did you also know that there are apps and Twitter accounts dedicated to the […]

How Advisors Can Create Some “March Madness” Around Their Business

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march-madness-work-278.jpg” alt=”” width=”278″ height=”225″ />Imagine you make it to the “Final Four” on a high-net-worth investor’s list of potential advisors. You’re all potential champions, so beating the competition and winning the assets boils down to capitalizing on the little details that set you apart. Most advisors plan to add new clients in 2012. If this […]

3 Ways Advisors Get More Business Using Google

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Local search advertising can be highly effective because it allows advisors to tailor their brand messages very precisely to fit what prospects in their area are looking for. As the Web grows, more people are submitting geographically constrained searches to sites like Google to find local businesses and filter out everything else. Typical local search […]

Jumping on the Social Media Bandwagon, One Advisor at a Time

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A Financial Advisor's Social Survival

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A Financial Advisor’s Social Survival As a financial advisor, I look at social media very much like anything else I do. Every decision I make is, more than likely, linked to some regulation or rule. That does not need to prevent me from doing my job. The compliance storm that is swirling about the use […]

A Financial Advisor’s Social Survival

A Financial Advisor’s Social Survival As a financial advisor, I look at social media very much like anything else I do. Every decision I make is, more than likely, linked to some regulation or rule. That does not need to prevent me from doing my job. The compliance storm that is swirling about the use […]

Even Online, Keeping It Simple Brings The Clients

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Michael Lynch has been courting high-net-worth clients, and now he feels like the campaign has been successful enough to take on a new partner and kick the process into an even higher gear. Part of the process entailed taking a hard look at his website and ripping it out — more than once. The process […]

Financial Social Media’s Top 10 Blog Posts of 2011

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As 2011 comes quickly to a close, I sat wondering what I’d write about for our final blog of the year. After much contemplation, I decided to compile a list of our most popular blog posts based on their share rate and reader views (thanks to ProducersWeb). It’s been quite a year for social media […]