By Graeme Mills, Content Manager for Simplicity Lone Beacon. When it comes to choosing a financial advisor, trust isn’t built overnight. It’s built gradually over time, through repeated interactions. You’re not selling a candy bar; you’re being asked to safeguard someone’s life savings. That’s why the advisory sales cycle is [...]
By Graeme Mills, Content Manager for Simplicity Lone Beacon. As a financial advisor, your role extends far beyond building portfolios or managing risk, it’s about building trust. And in a world where financial headlines change by the hour and economic shifts seem more dramatic than ever, timely communication with your [...]
Written by Marcus Roth, Senior Director of Email Marketing, Automation, and Content at Simplicity Lone Beacon. If your advisory sends regular newsletters to clients and prospects, like we do at Simplicity Lone Beacon for our clients, then Apple’s recent iOS 18.2 update will change how your emails are received—whether [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
By Graeme Mills, Content Manager for Simplicity Lone Beacon. In the world of financial advisors, making improvements to your business, personnel, or self, creating institutional partnerships, and engaging in your community can be effective ways to stand out from the crowd. But who will know unless you tell people? One [...]
Written by Marcus Roth, Senior Director of Email Marketing, Automation, and Content at Simplicity Lone Beacon. My last two articles in this series covered the heady strategy and history of advertisement, where this article will attempt to tactically deliver ways to generate novel and exciting new advertisement concepts for [...]
