By Marcus Roth, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Data, Automation & Content. Independent financial advisors are entrusted with a significant responsibility: safeguarding their clients' retirement savings. It's no surprise that clients expect an assurance that their savings are in capable, professional hands, and that any arising issues will [...]
By Craig Foster, Director of Media. Recently I wrote about how boosting posts on social media sites can help improve the results of your lead-generation campaigns, “Boosted Posts Are the Key to Improving Your Lead Generation Campaigns.” As I wrote, a boosted post strategy is a cost-effective way to increase [...]
By Marcus Roth, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Data, Automation & Content. I learned a valuable lesson from a friend of mine who would be considered a model prospect for any financial advisor. He recently changed financial advisors and made his decision on this factor: client experience. His previous [...]
By Mike Schaffman, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Buzzwords are used in every industry to attempt to signal technical knowledge on a subject or topic, some of which are overused and misused, thus losing their meaning and earning them the name “buzzword.” However, in the [...]
As a full-service sales and marketing company for the financial services industry, we do our best to help clients execute successful campaigns throughout all stages of the customer journey. Success is measured by the ability to generate, evaluate, nurture, and close leads. And for the most part...that means “digital leads”. It’s not unusual [...]
By Craig Foster, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Director of Digital Media. Have you recently had results from your lead generation campaigns that were disappointing? Maybe the campaign didn’t produce many leads or your cost per lead could have been higher than estimated or the quality of the leads was not what [...]
Life, and marketing, is complicated enough without having to spread your time and resources across too many platforms. I’ll trade 25 solid ideas for 1 that I know I can execute. I get it...it’s easy and fun brainstorming new initiatives. But it’s tedious developing the framework to actually execute one [...]
By Marcus Roth, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Data, Automation & Content. An older friend of mine recently shared an insightful experience about switching financial advisors. This interaction sparked the idea for three separate articles I felt were worthy of publication. Interestingly, the decision was not propelled by [...]
By Kasey Dean, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Accounts. In the financial industry, and any business, managers and leaders tend to be the first ones called upon when a mistake or error occurs. Whether it's internally or externally, they are always looked on as the problem-solvers and are expected [...]
By Mike Schaffman, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. While the news cycle might suggest that AI (Artificial Intelligence) is the new “hip” thing to be following and implementing into your marketing systems, let’s not forget that it’s been around the block for many years. Of course, [...]
