Financial Advisory Practice Management Expertise and Insights
Simplicity Lone Beacon has first-hand experience deploying business best practices. We’ve built successful businesses from the ground up. Today, we’re helping independent financial advisors optimize business efficiencies by evaluating sales systems and processes, and conducting a thorough financial advisory SWOT analysis. Our expertise helps financial advisors:
Financial Advisor Practice Management Articles
What’s the Difference Between PR and Marketing?
By Ben Kulis, Simplicity Lone Beacon’s Operations Manager For years, companies had to have multiple agencies each handling various tasks (e.g., digital, ads, public relations). But, as time has progressed and the tools and technologies have evolved, the lines between them have become blurred, and full-service integrated firms have taken [...]
Utilizing the Power of Volunteerism for Your Advisory
By Ben Kulis, Simplicity Lone Beacon’s Operations Manager The term “Marketing” has evolved over the years and now encompasses a wide variety of strategies all geared towards two main goals, creating awareness of your brand and ultimately driving leads. We have also seen an increase in corporate social responsibility (CSR), [...]
Published Article: Without Digital Technology, Your Financial Advisory Firm May Be Stuck in the Stone Age
By Simplicity Lone Beacon Co-Founder John Capuano. This article originally appeared on WealthManagement.com There are still firms in the financial industry that are barely dipping their toe into the digital space. The notion that engaging in digital is an option and not a necessity today is dangerous. Whether we [...]
Advisors Talk “Process”, Clients Want Outcome
Market your outcome, not your process. Every financial advisory firm is trained to “lead with their MULTI-STEP PROCESS” when they are talking to a new prospect. The reality is that most prospects want to hear about the OUTCOME and what that outcome means for them. The two biggest variables that [...]
The Pareto Principle: What Is It & How Can You Apply It to Grow Your Business?
The Pareto Principle, also commonly called the 80/20 Rule, states that about 80% of outcomes come from 20% of causes. While this principle can be helpful in prioritizing high-impact tasks and can help increase your productivity, it can also help you grow your business by identifying your best clients and [...]
What’s A Business Without Its People?
Workplace happiness can be a tricky thing to achieve, never mind quantify. There are 3 questions managers should be asking their employees regularly to gauge their job satisfaction.
Learn How Our Longest Standing Client Established One of the Most Successful Firms in the U.S.
Simplicity Lone Beacon is proud to announce that one of our longest advisor relationships, SHP Financial, was featured on Michael Kitces's Financial Advisor Success Podcast. During the show, Derek Gregoire, Co-Founder of SHP Financial, discusses the centralized execution of multiple marketing strategies. The Simplicity Lone Beacon and SHP Financial partnership [...]
Lessons From the Masters
It's nearly unheard of to walk out onto Augusta National and be competitive the first time out. It usually takes plenty of rounds and frustrations to even make the cut, much less be a contender. It's the same in business: The more experience you have being around the "final group", [...]
Instilling Confidence in a Time of Uncertainty
While uncertainty over foreign and domestic threats can create panic among consumers, they can also bring opportunities to those who can offer information and guidance to a nervous public. Just as we have begun to see the light at the end of the tunnel concerning the pandemic, the escalating war [...]
Home Alone!
As the mask mandates are being lifted, our attitudes toward a virtual work environment are likely here to stay. It's time to find the work/life/culture balance. Check out John Capuano's quick video below to learn about Simplicity Lone Beacon's approach to the new normal of working from home.
Do You Have a Cybersecurity Plan?
The events of the last couple years have forced companies to look more towards digitizing than ever before, and perhaps more quickly than they had prepared for. While this trend towards digital has allowed for greater productivity, businesses need to have a cybersecurity plan in place to prepare for possible [...]
Building A Working Culture That Works
Finding and retaining good people will always be our single highest priority, and our proudest accomplishment. Good PEOPLE can be inspired to be great business people, and inspire those around them.
What Sets You Apart From the Pack?
It’s not easy for a financial advisory or institution to separate themselves from the pack. They have similar goals and offerings, and all share the same stock market...so how do they compete in such a homogenized space? Check out John Capuano's 1-minute video and he'll tell you how we help [...]
Got First Party Data?
If your business isn't collecting first party data, you're falling behind many of your competitors. Understanding first party data today could save your business tomorrow. Check out John Capuano's 1-minute video and he'll tell you why.
Understanding the Latest Trends in Financial Services Marketing
Like everything else in our world, marketing in the financial services industry is anything but static: It is constantly evolving and those who want to be successful in this space must understand how the consumer they are trying to reach is different today than they were even two or three [...]
Your Most Important Client is Right in Front of You
The notion of status quos is not in the cards for us and the flywheel for growth only gains momentum. The fuel for the flywheel: OUR STAFF. Our company’s growth is proportionate to our ability to recruit for, and develop good people. Check out John Capuano's latest video to hear [...]
