The Importance of Correctly Titling Your Marketing Content

Tablet search engine system screen By Marcus Roth, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Data, Automation & Content. Like it or not, the titles of your content are not meant for you, they're meant for your audience and search engines. It’s a different story if you’re writing a [...]

Why Your Marketing Campaigns Lag: Ads Versus SEO

By Craig Foster, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Director of Digital Media. Do you have a radio or a TV show? Are you running ads on radio and TV programs? Are you not seeing the results that you expected from them? If you’re not seeing the results, the reason may not be [...]

How to Reengage the Unengaged in Your Sales and Marketing Database

By Marcus Roth, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Data, Automation & Content. In my experience guiding successful email campaigns to unengaged contacts in their sales database, I’ve noticed that financial advisors treat the task like they’re being forced to eat their vegetables or take out the trash. On more than [...]

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 [...]

2023-02-22T17:21:34+00:00February 22, 2023|Advertising, Blogs, Campaigns, Digital Leads, Digital Marketing, Marketing|

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 [...]

2023-02-08T13:52:36+00:00February 7, 2023|Advertising, Blogs, Campaigns, Digital Leads, Digital Marketing, Marketing|

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 [...]

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