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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
Empathy and Privacy Cross Paths on Your Customer’s Journey
By Mike Schaffman, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Our digital world is continuing to evolve all around us, and while technology has certainly made things easier, it has also made everything more complex. When we think about the customer journey and all its different stages, our [...]
Published Article: Why Your Emails Need to Focus
Originally appeared in WealthManagement.com One email. One topic Imagine you’re walking down a quaint, city street and you hear music from buskers around the corner. Maybe you heard one musician playing a tune or melody, or a few in harmony as a band, working together in concert to delight their wandering [...]
Making Your Marketing Commitment in 2023 and Beyond
Source: Freepik.com. Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik. By Mike Schaffman, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. According to a recent survey performed by Broadridge analyzing advisory data from 2021 to 2022, the average per-prospect cost of winning new business rose by 3.3%, while the number [...]
Financial Advisors on TikTok: Can It Work?
By Craig Foster, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Director of Digital Media. If you’ve kept up on the world of social media, you are going to hear a lot of talk about TikTok, both good and bad. With TikTok as one of the fastest-growing social media sites, financial advisors might be tempted [...]
The Importance of Feeding the Beast: A Brief Look into Maintaining an Email Newsletter
By Marcus Roth, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Data, Automation & Content. Many financial advisor businesses are unaware of the attrition amongst their prospects over a year. Through opt-outs and outdated email lists in your sales funnel, you could be marketing to countless unqualified leads. As a [...]
Your Next Marketing Strategy? Hello YouTube
By Craig Foster, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Director of Digital Media. As we start off 2023, you may be thinking about fresh new ways to upgrade your business. Well, have you thought about what your strategy for YouTube is and how you will execute it? At Simplicity Lone Beacon, we’ve worked [...]
Good Branding: The Glue that Binds Marketing and Sales & Turns Prospects to Clients
By Marcus Roth, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Data, Automation & Content. Long ago, the marketing department of service-based companies was a subdivision of the sales department. Marketing was seen as a tool wielded by sales staff to be used to further their direct goals. As business thinking has [...]
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 [...]
How to Reach the Next Generation of Retirees
By Craig Foster, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Director of Digital Media. A few weeks back, I wrote about how Generation X is the forgotten generation that financial advisors should remember. In general terms, I mentioned the importance of targeting Gen X, why they are good prospects for financial advisors, where [...]
Who’s Giving You Digital Advice?
Financial advisors, who's giving you your digital advice? If you’re investing in digital media for lead generation, chances are you know very little about how to decipher and measure results, or whether or not you have a legitimate plan to crack the code of digital marketing. It’s possible that the [...]
Why Your Emails Need to Focus
By Marcus Roth, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Data, Automation & Content. One musician on the street corner is a tune, a few in harmony is a band, working together in concert to delight their wandering listeners, but five musicians all playing their own song with their own artistic [...]
Data Isn’t The Holy Grail of Business Until You Know How to Use It
The truth is that we, as business leaders, put too much pressure on data to solve all our roadblocks and setbacks. Make no mistake, data is the most important marketing currency, and we at Simplicity Lone Beacon consider it—first-party data especially—our lifeblood. The problem is that many who seek [...]
3 Helpful Ways to Analyze Your Customer’s Journey
By Mike Schaffman, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. According to a recent Business Wire survey report, 86% of consumers will leave a brand they were once loyal to after only two to three bad customer experiences. Customers have countless ways to engage with a brand, making [...]
5 Must-Have Elements for Financial Advisor Websites
Don’t take this personally, but coming from a background as a professional wrestler and designing the silliest of logos – right down to a logo for a wrestler named “Dashing Rock Ripper” – the financial advisor design spectrum can come across as limited. However, it doesn’t have to be. [...]
Generation X – The Forgotten Generation Financial Advisors Should Remember
Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik By Craig Foster, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Director of Digital Media. Generation X (Gen X) to many people is the forgotten generation that falls between the Baby Boomers and Millennials. But this is a generation that is now entering the prime years for [...]
Buying An Email List Has Massive Downsides in 2022 – Don’t Even Bother
By Marcus Roth, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Data, Automation & Content. Buying an email list in 2022 no longer has a reasonable benefit when compared to the litany of downsides that come with it. In this article, I will uncover the many downsides of using a purchased list [...]
QR Codes – The Comeback Kid! But What Can They Do for Your Advisory?
Do you remember in the early 2000s when these ugly, blocky graphics started showing up in random places, and no one knew what they were? Eventually, we found out that they were called QR Codes, and their purpose was to feed us a lot of information as fast [...]
Financial Advisors, What’s Your First Impression Like?
By Mike Schaffman, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. In psychology, a first impression occurs when someone establishes a mental image of someone they meet for the first time. There are countless ways to create a first impression across a customer’s journey, but one thing is for [...]
Who Says Financial Advisories Can’t Be on the Cutting Edge of Digital Marketing?
By Craig Foster, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Director of Digital Media. On October 7th, 2022, Simplicity Lone Beacon was informed by Meta (formerly Facebook) that we had become one of the first to earn its Meta Certified Company qualification. As Meta stated in the email, “we are so excited to [...]
Welcome Email Sequences Reduce Sales Cycles for Financial Advisories
By Marcus Roth, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Data, Automation & Content. While analyzing the year-to-date success of our client’s ability to convert new business, our research uncovered an illuminating statistic which proved true for multiple clients. The research showed that clients utilizing Simplicity Lone Beacon Emersion sequences, otherwise [...]
Do You Truly Understand Your User?
“If you have to explain the joke, it’s not funny.” Written By: Kirby Mack, Vice President of Digital Media at Simplicity Lone Beacon If you did a Google search right now for “Do’s and Don’ts of Website Design,” the first page results would give you a combined total of [...]
Why YouTube is Your Answer to Connecting with New Clients
By Craig Foster, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Director of Digital Media. A little while back the Pew Research Center put out a survey that looked at the usage of different social media platforms. This survey looked at usage of YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and other social media platforms. When our team [...]
If You Want to Achieve a Big Goal, Start at the End
By Greg Dinetz, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Co-Founder. It may seem counterintuitive, but to give yourself a better chance of achieving your goals, start with the desired result and work backward. Think about it; when you’re traveling somewhere new, you put the address into your navigation and what does it [...]
The Biggest SEO Secret – The Real Keyword You Should Be Focusing on Is…
Content. That's it. That's the article. But wait, what makes this the "biggest SEO secret," and why are we so eager to give it to you? For years, Simplicity Lone Beacon has been stressing the importance of content to its clients. But for years, keyword stuffing and backlinking have [...]
