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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Market your outcome, not your process. Every financial advisory firm is trained to “lead with their MULTI-STEP PROCESS” when they are talking to a new prospect. The reality is that most prospects want to hear about the OUTCOME and what that outcome means for them. The two biggest variables that [...]
Your BRAND = Your REVENUE POTENTIAL How connected is your brand to your revenue? Is your staff in lockstep with your brand and how it’s articulated? Do you live and breathe your brand? In the financial world, almost everyone’s brand is homogenized. Everyone shares the same stock market and [...]
