A Financial Advisor’s Guide to Obtaining Useful, Effective Client Testimonials

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 [...]

Financial Advisors’ Guide to Compliant Testimonial Marketing

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 [...]

Financial Advisors: Is It Time To Change? 

 By Mike Schaffman, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Simplicity Lone Beacon   If you desire change, then know that you’re responsible and should feel empowered to make that happen. Remember, change is not just about doing something different; it’s about a well-calculated approach toward modifying your perception, behavior, and [...]

Crafting an Effective Press Release: Best Practices for Independent Financial Advisors

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 [...]

How Financial Advisors Can Refresh and Reuse Great Marketing Content

By Graeme Mills, Content Manager for Simplicity Lone Beacon. In my last article, I covered what makes great content for your advisory’s marketing efforts, and why it matters. In this article, we’ll cover how to take that content and maximize its impact for marketing purposes by repackaging, reworking, refreshing, and [...]

Increase Your Conversion Rates with Effective CTAs

By Mike Schaffman, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Every day financial advisors struggle to creatively craft and properly position their calls to action (CTA). Having an effective CTA allows an advisor to better attract prospects, convert them into loyal clients, increase existing wallet share, and strengthen [...]

2 Secrets Financial Advisors Need to Create Captivating Content That Generates Results

By Graeme Mills, Content Manager for Simplicity Lone Beacon. The reason you create and share content—whether it's videos, articles, webinars, web copy, ads, or other forms of content—is to establish and re-establish a connection between you and your clients and prospects. The two key concepts to do that are in [...]

Published Article: How Financial Advisors Can Optimize Their Email Newsletters

By Marcus Roth, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Data, Automation & Content And Andrew Preshong, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Email Marketing Manager This article originally appeared on WealthManagement.com To continually optimize advisors’ email marketing efforts, The email marketing team at Simplicity Lone Beacon conducted a study to discover which email [...]

How Understanding MQLs and SQLs Can Improve Your Financial Advisory Business

By Mike Schaffman, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. As a financial advisor, it's essential to recognize that not all prospects are alike. Understanding the different types of prospects is pivotal in tailoring your processes and conversations, providing a superior experience, and elevating your likelihood of securing [...]

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Tracking Client and Prospect Engagement: Finding Leads You May Have Missed

By Mike Schaffman, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing.    We’ve got bad news: you’re probably missing out on a huge source of potential leads. But we also have good news: we can show you how to find those leads, get those leads in the seat across [...]

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