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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
By Kasey Dean, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Accounts. According to a recent 2024 digital ad spending study by EMARKETER, financial services saw the 2nd largest growth in digital ad spending compared to 2023 (~18% growth). The findings in this study plus the results of our recent advisor case [...]
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 [...]
By Zoe Menendez, Senior Digital Media Manager for Simplicity Lone Beacon. There's no more excuses for financial advisors not to have a social media strategy... and the data proves it. From 2022 to 2023 there was a 3.2% increase in new social media users. If we break that down that’s [...]
Written by Marcus Roth, Senior Director of Email Marketing, Automation, and Content at Simplicity Lone Beacon. In today’s competitive financial advisory landscape, it is crucial to stand out by building meaningful connections with potential clients. One powerful method is leveraging the StoryBrand framework by Donald Miller. The core philosophy [...]
