Welcome and thank you for checking out our inaugural episode #1 of TCJ: The Customer Journey as part of our new video series. Anyone who makes their living in the financial services industry will want to keep an eye out for TCJ as Greg Dinetz (Co-Founder) and Mike Schaffman (VP [...]
Financial professionals are so caught up in investment strategies and overall planning that they often forget about the similarities to marketing, mainly how diversification is a necessary component to establish a healthy and profitable marketing portfolio. Here are some of the ways you can grow your firm’s marketing portfolio in [...]
What if you had people asking you to become your client rather than feeling the need to convince them? A clear brand differentiator can accomplish that. It's futile trying to be all things to all people, because when you try to reach everyone, you reach no one. Check out John Capuano's [...]
It’s important for any company, whether it’s just starting out or has been in business for fifty years, to regularly take the time to analyze and ask itself what it is doing right, what it could improve on, and how can it grow moving forward, both from an internal and [...]
As we rapidly approach the end of the year, this is a time for many for personal and professional reflection. It’s also the time when principals and executives of firms reevaluate their business relationships and why we see so much business movement between Q4 and Q1. Let’s discuss why this [...]
“What’s your brand?” The answers are usually as commoditized as the financial advisory business itself and everyone pretty much says the same thing; It’s hard to find “the essence” of your firm. Check out John Capuano's latest video below for tips on building your brand and why it can be [...]
We watched out our window as nearly 20,000 runners competed in the Boston Marathon! They share with us a great lesson in life and business: Setting an ambitious goal and having the WILL and DISCIPLINE to achieve it! Are you a competitor or a spectator?
Like it or not, the financial planning industry is a commodity: All firms share the same stock market, the same insurance carriers, and basic services. It doesn’t get easier when it comes to the needs of clients because they want the same thing too: protection and growth. It’s hard to [...]
Marketing technology, or “martech”, is software used to optimize and improve digital marketing efforts. It is now ubiquitous across nearly every industry, and it has changed the way advertising is executed and measured. Yet many businesses report that their martech is not working for them. Why? Dazzling presentations of new software that promises to streamline a [...]
We believe in a tight playbook. This allows us to execute the things we offer in world class fashion, and connect them all to deliver results that set a new bar in the world of financial marketing. Here are our “core four[1]” steps to financial marketing success. Killer Website If [...]
