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 Through opt-outs and outdated email lists in your sales funnel, you could be marketing to countless unqualified leads.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 [...]
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 [...]
By Craig Foster, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Director of Digital Media. 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, where [...]
By Marcus Roth, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Data, Automation & Content. One musician on the street corner is a tune, a few in harmony is a band, working together in concert to delight their wandering listeners, but five musicians all playing their own song with their own artistic [...]
By Mike Schaffman, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. According to a recent Business Wire survey report, 86% of consumers will leave a brand they were once loyal to after only two to three bad customer experiences. Customers have countless ways to engage with a brand, making [...]
Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik By Craig Foster, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Director of Digital Media. Generation X (Gen X) to many people is the forgotten generation that falls between the Baby Boomers and Millennials. But this is a generation that is now entering the prime years for [...]
By Marcus Roth, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Data, Automation & Content. Buying an email list in 2022 no longer has a reasonable benefit when compared to the litany of downsides that come with it. In this article, I will uncover the many downsides of using a purchased list [...]
By Mike Schaffman, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. In psychology, a first impression occurs when someone establishes a mental image of someone they meet for the first time. There are countless ways to create a first impression across a customer’s journey, but one thing is for [...]
By Craig Foster, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Director of Digital Media. On October 7th, 2022, Simplicity Lone Beacon was informed by Meta (formerly Facebook) that we had become one of the first to earn its Meta Certified Company qualification. As Meta stated in the email, “we are so excited to [...]
