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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Craig Foster, Director of Media. This article originally appeared on WealthManagement.com 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, [...]
This article originally appeared on WealthManagement.com Coming from a background as a professional wrestler and designing the silliest of logos—even a logo for a wrestler named “Dashing Rock Ripper”—the financial advisor design spectrum can come across as limited. However, it doesn’t have to.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
