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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
7 Tactical Tips To Brainstorming Killer Ad Concepts That Actually Work
Written by Marcus Roth, Senior Director of Email Marketing, Automation, and Content at Simplicity Lone Beacon. My last two articles in this series covered the heady strategy and history of advertisement, where this article will attempt to tactically deliver ways to generate novel and exciting new advertisement concepts for [...]
How Financial Advisors Can Refresh and Reuse Great Marketing Content
By Graeme Mills, Content Manager for Simplicity Lone Beacon. In my last article, I covered what makes great content for your advisory’s marketing efforts, and why it matters. In this article, we’ll cover how to take that content and maximize its impact for marketing purposes by repackaging, reworking, refreshing, and [...]
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), [...]
Selecting the “Right” Marketing Metrics
By Ben Kulis, Simplicity Lone Beacon’s Operations Manager The term “Data-Driven” can be an intimidating term for anyone in the marketing community. As a financial advisor, understanding and selecting the right marketing metrics to track can significantly enhance your client acquisition efforts and influence your overall business growth. It can [...]
Thoughts on Modern Advertisements – Part 2: 6 Reasons Why the Look of Ads Have Changed
Written by Marcus Roth, Senior Director of Email Marketing, Automation, and Content at Simplicity Lone Beacon. As detailed in the first article of this series, advertising has undergone a significant transformation from complex visual and verbal compositions to a more minimalist and engaging approach. This second installment explores the reasons [...]
Case Study: How Email Nurturing Improved Webinar Signups And Attendance
By Kasey Dean, Simplicity Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Accounts. Recently, we teamed up with a client down South to tackle an exciting opportunity. We launched a 3-month trial focused on promoting a tax webinar on-demand. Our goals? Refresh their database with new content and get their current contacts [...]
Navigating the Financial Services Landscape: 4 Marketing Mistakes Financial Advisors Should Avoid
By Ben Kulis, Simplicity Lone Beacon’s Operations Manager As we see on a day-to-day basis, the marketing landscape is constantly evolving, and consumer expectations continue to shift. Because of this, it is harder than ever for financial advisors to stand out against competitors, especially when their work and expertise is [...]
Thoughts on Modern Advertisement – Part 1: Changes Over Time
Written by Marcus Roth, Senior Director of Email Marketing, Automation, and Content at Simplicity Lone Beacon. There used to be a certain way logos and headlines needed to look. In the days of magazine ads and written direct response marketing campaigns, an ad’s concept was on-the-nose and described the [...]
The Art and Science of Ad Targeting For Financial Advisors
By Zoe Menendez, Senior Digital Media Manager. One of the most important aspects that makes your digital ads successful is the geographic location that you're targeting. It often gets forgotten because flashy creatives and thought-provoking copy (which are both equally as important!) is more visible. However, location could be [...]
How to Capitalize on Your Competitor’s Missed Opportunities
By Kasey Dean, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Accounts. According to a 2023 NASDAQ study, nearly 50% of clients with $500K or more considered or actually switched advisors in the past 3 years. This represents a huge opportunity to capture new prospects and ultimately, clients. With this type [...]
Increase Your Conversion Rates with Effective CTAs
By Mike Schaffman, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Every day financial advisors struggle to creatively craft and properly position their calls to action (CTA). Having an effective CTA allows an advisor to better attract prospects, convert them into loyal clients, increase existing wallet share, and strengthen [...]
In What Order Do Your Prospects Care About the Services You Offer?
Written by Marcus Roth, Senior Director of Email Marketing, Automation, and Content at Simplicity Lone Beacon. We surveyed over 1,000 people between the ages of 50 and 70 with an average of $500k in net investable assets. One of our Founders, John Capuano, covered his three major takeaways from the [...]
Digital Ads vs Mailers for Financial Advisor Dinner Seminars: Which is Better?
By Zoe Menendez, Digital Media Manager. Recently, I was reviewing data from our clients who have been hosting dinner seminars. These clients have been spending most of their event budget on mailers and it got me wondering; Is this really the best use of their budget? Could they be [...]
Email Team Deep Dive: Generating Hype in Email Sequences
Written by Rich Davis, Email Marketing Coordinator at Simplicity Lone Beacon, Edited by Marcus Roth, Senior Director of Email Marketing, Automation, and Content at Simplicity Lone Beacon. A few months ago, our client-facing team noticed the monthly open rate for one of our advisor's emails was a bit lower [...]
2 Secrets Financial Advisors Need to Create Captivating Content That Generates Results
By Graeme Mills, Content Manager for Simplicity Lone Beacon. The reason you create and share content—whether it's videos, articles, webinars, web copy, ads, or other forms of content—is to establish and re-establish a connection between you and your clients and prospects. The two key concepts to do that are in [...]
Evaluating Your Marketing Strategy: A Guide for Financial Advisors
By Kasey Dean, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Accounts. In today's digital age, marketing has become an indispensable tool for financial advisors to grow their client base and strengthen their brand presence against their competitors. There is a plethora of strategies and insights out there that can help [...]
Published Article: How Financial Advisors Can Optimize Their Email Newsletters
By Marcus Roth, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Data, Automation & Content And Andrew Preshong, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Email Marketing Manager This article originally appeared on WealthManagement.com To continually optimize advisors’ email marketing efforts, The email marketing team at Simplicity Lone Beacon conducted a study to discover which email [...]
How Understanding MQLs and SQLs Can Improve Your Financial Advisory Business
By Mike Schaffman, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. As a financial advisor, it's essential to recognize that not all prospects are alike. Understanding the different types of prospects is pivotal in tailoring your processes and conversations, providing a superior experience, and elevating your likelihood of securing [...]
10 Tips for Financial Advisors’ Marketing Operations
Image: Freepik.com By Ben Kulis, Simplicity Lone Beacon’s Operations Manager No matter the industry, marketing departments are under constant pressure to deliver results while juggling multiple projects, campaigns, and deadlines. This is also true for advisors. Setting up efficient workflows is the key to thriving in today’s ever-changing [...]
The Data Shows Your Advisory Should Embrace Digital Channels to Supplement Traditional Advertising
By Craig Foster, Director of Digital Media. In the financial advisory world, the allocation of marketing budgets, especially when you have a limited budget, plays a pivotal role in enhancing lead generation, client acquisition, and overall business growth. As the world modernizes, the age-old debate of whether to invest in [...]
Successful Email Subject Lines: Analyzing 2,700 Email Deployments
Written by Andrew Preshong, Email Marketing Manager at Simplicity Lone Beacon, and edited by Marcus Roth, Senior Director of Email Marketing, Automation, and Content at Simplicity Lone Beacon. To continually optimize our email marketing efforts, Simplicity Lone Beacon embarked on a challenge to discover which email subject lines are [...]
Published Article: Why Do Most Digital Lead Platforms Fail?
By John Capuano, Co-Founder of Simplicity Lone Beacon. This article originally appeared on www.wealthmanagement.com For marketing companies like ours and our clients, success is measured by the ability to generate, evaluate, nurture and close leads. And for the most part, that means digital leads. The perceived success or failure of [...]
Published Article: How Financial Advisors Can Connect with Gen X
By Craig Foster, Director of Digital Media at Simplicity Lone Beacon. This article originally appeared on wealthmanagement.com Generation X is a crucial customer base for financial advisors and their firms’ future growth. I have written several articles about how the Generation X demographic is a major opportunity for financial advisors, [...]
Published Article: What is Most Important to Digital Marketing Campaigns
By Craig Foster, Director of Digital Media. This article originally appeared on www.wealthmanagement.com There are many components to a digital marketing campaign. When examining the performance of your ads, it can be difficult to accurately attribute certain components of them to the success or failure. In other words, data [...]
