Digital Marketing Strategies
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At Simplicity Lone Beacon, we’ve spent our careers helping big national brands develop digital marketing strategies to activate campaigns locally. Today, we’re creating independent financial advisor digital marketing strategies to capitalize on the tremendous opportunity that exists online, putting your message in the hands of the people you want, delivered in the way only you can, and give you the resources to close those leads.
Financial Advisor Digital Marketing Articles
How to Navigate Meta’s New Special Ad Category as a Financial Advisor
By Zoe Menendez, Senior Digital Media Manager for Simplicity Lone Beacon. Digital lead generation has been largely misunderstood by much of the financial community and it’s costed us. We at Simplicity Lone Beacon have been innovators in this space and have demystified digital marketing, and have been able to [...]
Data Shows Financial Advisors Should Capitalize on the Great Wealth Transfer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dScoYpb2AOo Over $100 trillion is set to change hands in the coming years. That’s not just numbers on a balance sheet—it’s family stories, dreams, and decades of hard work being passed down. Inheritance isn’t just a financial event. It’s emotional, it’s complicated. And it’s already on your clients’ minds. [...]
Using Data to Create More Meaningful Connections with Clients & Prospects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QafyZ8ohMlE When you hear 'data,' you probably picture spreadsheets, algorithms, and cold, clinical numbers. But in the world of financial advising and sales, data isn’t sterile—it’s deeply human. Used the right way, it becomes a powerful tool to personalize every conversation, every email, every touchpoint with your prospects and clients. [...]
Survey Says… Your Target Audience Cares About Wealth Transfer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvXfiTlNNcQ A massive transfer of wealth is already underway—whether your prospects and clients are planning to leave a legacy or preparing to receive one. More and more Americans are thinking beyond their own retirement and asking bigger questions: What will happen to my wealth when I'm gone? Or, what should [...]
Show Your Prospects and Clients the Value of a Full-Service Financial Advisory
https://youtu.be/nO5IRLK6AO0 Marcus Roth and John Capuano explore how survey respondents perceive the role of a full-service advisory firm, and the results may surprise you. Many pre-retirees and retirees still don’t fully recognize the value of having a single, comprehensive financial team guiding their retirement strategy. And among ultra-high-net-worth individuals, belief [...]
Address Your Prospects’ and Clients’ Pessimism In The Economy
https://youtu.be/tsuSZTew9X0 Marcus Roth, and John Capuano share sentiments of pessimism from respondents to the 2025 Retirement Survey about the U.S. economy over the next five years. For advisors, this level of uncertainty among retirees and pre-retirees signals an opportunity to directly acknowledge these concerns. It’s not just about offering a [...]
Why & How Financial Advisors Should Share Timely Content with Their Audiences
By Graeme Mills, Content Manager for Simplicity Lone Beacon. As a financial advisor, your role extends far beyond building portfolios or managing risk, it’s about building trust. And in a world where financial headlines change by the hour and economic shifts seem more dramatic than ever, timely communication with your [...]
Why Attending to All Stages of Your Lead Funnel Helps Your Business
By Zoe Menendez, Senior Digital Media Manager for Simplicity Lone Beacon. When it comes to digital marketing, lead generation is the name of the game. Platforms like Meta and LinkedIn make it easier than ever for financial advisors to generate quality leads that then eventually become clients. However, when your [...]
Five Critical Components for Success in Large Company Projects
By Mia Wood, Senior Client Relationship Manager at Simplicity Lone Beacon Summary: Success in large company projects depends on five key components: proactivity, communication, team comradery, leveraging strengths, and revisiting the end goal. Proactive teams anticipate challenges, conduct risk assessments, and adapt quickly to minimize disruptions. Clear communication ensures [...]
Your Prospects and Clients Are On Their Phones… It’s Time to Adapt
https://youtu.be/RTCeYIT0kPo In Simplicity Lone Beacon's latest OneCast, Partners Greg Dinetz and John Capuano talk about how much media consumption for the retirement aged demographic has changed in the last 10 years. Whether you like it or not, your audience is on their phones A LOT, and if you don't adapt [...]
The Power of Referrals in 2025
https://youtu.be/sbwUohU9l3g In Simplicity Lone Beacon's recent OneCast, Co-Founder John Capuano met with VP of Sales and Marketing, Mike Shaffman to talk about 5 important concepts for advisors to be attuned to in 2025... One of the biggest: How referrals work in the digital age. Listen to this key insight and [...]
SEO is Dead. Here’s What You Can Do.
By: Kirby G Mack (Vice President of Digital Media at Simplicity Lone Beacon) SEO is dead. This is something proclaimed every year. And depending on which side of the SEO operations you land on, you either scoff at it or cheer it. SEO, Search Engine Optimization, is evolving rapidly with [...]
Apple’s iOS 18.2 Update Changes the Game for Financial Advisor Newsletters – Here’s What You Need to Know
Written by Marcus Roth, Senior Director of Email Marketing, Automation, and Content at Simplicity Lone Beacon. If your advisory sends regular newsletters to clients and prospects, like we do at Simplicity Lone Beacon for our clients, then Apple’s recent iOS 18.2 update will change how your emails are received—whether [...]
Instagram for Financial Advisors
By Zoe Menendez, Senior Digital Media Manager When you think about what social media platforms your advisory is using, what comes to mind? For most, it’s likely just Facebook and LinkedIn but this limited strategy could mean you’re missing out on valuable impressions and potential clients. In this article, we’re [...]
Turning Digital Ad Spend into Appointments: A Case Study for Financial Advisors
By Kasey Dean, Simplicity Lone Beacon’s Senior Director of Accounts. For many financial advisors, traditional lead-generation strategies like in-person events can yield inconsistent results, especially in challenging markets. One advisor spent most of the past year-and-half struggling to set up appointments from their various events. They tried multiple mail houses, [...]
The Value of First-Party Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80wcYEatHOk&feature=youtu.be First-party data... as in the data you own on your clients and prospects... is one of your greatest assets as a financial advisor. Purchased data is often irrelevant and untailored to the important questions you want answered about your prospects and their preferences. This is why every financial advisor [...]
Hyper-Personalization is a Marketing Necessity in 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wTE_6Kn6jY We've said it once and we'll continue to say it: Today's consumers want what they want, and they want it when they want it... But there's more to it for financial advisors in 2025. Hyper-personalization is increasingly necessary for financial advisors, meaning people don't just want to [...]
Using AI to Empower Productivity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlzlyRdQRQs The use of artificial intelligence is a white-hot topic, and it’s shaping up to be especially influential in the financial advisor space. And it's something we at Simplicity Lone Beacon have been honing for years, staying a step ahead on behalf of the financial advisors we work with. The [...]
A Financial Advisor’s Guide to Obtaining Useful, Effective Client Testimonials
By Graeme Mills, Content Manager for Simplicity Lone Beacon. A successful client testimonial strategy for a financial advisory is twofold. First, you must understand what a persuasive, yet compliant testimonial is. Then, you must understand how to best solicit those testimonials in a way that prompts your target audience for [...]
Brand Awareness: Why It’s a Key Element of Financial Advisors’ Marketing Strategy
By Zoe Menendez, Senior Digital Media Manager. Brand awareness amongst your prospects is one of the key factors that can get a prospect moving down your sales funnel and getting closer to becoming a client... In today’s world where trust between your firm and a potential client is developed over [...]
It’s About Time
https://youtu.be/viOkvuNjoxc By John Capuano, Partner at Simplicity Lone Beacon Now’s the time that we’re reflecting on the outcomes of 2024 initiatives and committing to 2025 objectives. Let’s remember that new initiatives take time. Too often we see people lose patience or get distracted and scrap good plans too quickly, start [...]
How Consistent Emails Turned a “Dead” Lead into a High-Net-Worth Client
Written by Marcus Roth, Senior Director of Email Marketing, Automation, and Content at Simplicity Lone Beacon. For over five years, one financial advisor has diligently sent monthly emails to "unengaged" prospects—prospects who hadn’t opened an email for at least 120 days. While it may seem like an uphill commitment, [...]
Financial Advisors’ Guide to Compliant Testimonial Marketing
By Graeme Mills, Content Manager for Simplicity Lone Beacon. Many financial advisors want to start using testimonials in their marketing but are unsure how to use them in a compliant and impactful way. The effectiveness of testimonials is hard to overstate. Hearing how a product or service helped a customer [...]
How Financial Advisors Can Build Trust with “Micro Buy-Ins”
https://youtu.be/ZJJV_El3rpY Today's consumers are hit with so much information that they get information overload... It takes over their thought process and decision-making comes to a halt due to "choice paralysis." In Simplicity Lone Beacon's recent OneCast, Jason Jenkins, Simplicity EVP, Sales Training, shares his insight on how financial advisors can [...]
