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 [...]

Successful Email Subject Lines: Analyzing 2,700 Email Deployments 

Written by Andrew Preshong, Email Marketing Manager at Simplicity Lone Beacon, and edited by Marcus Roth, Senior Director of Email Marketing, Automation, and Content at Simplicity Lone Beacon.   To continually optimize our email marketing efforts, Simplicity Lone Beacon embarked on a challenge to discover which email subject lines are [...]

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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 [...]

Published Article: Take The Time To Adopt Your Client’s Perspective

By Marcus Roth, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Data, Automation & Content. This article originally appeared on WealthManagement.com I learned a valuable lesson from a friend who would be considered a model prospect for any financial advisor. He recently changed advisors and made his decision on this factor: client [...]

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Email Marketing and Copy Writing for Financial Advisors: When to Use Long-Form Content

By Marcus Roth, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Senior Director of Data, Automation & Content. Certain prospects value different features when shopping for an advisor. But there are mostly just two types of prospects: convenience-based and strategic, tactical.   The convenience-based prospects really don’t want, or care, to know HOW the financial world [...]

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Published Article: How to Turn Employees into Brand Advocates

  By Ben Kulis, Simplicity Lone Beacon’s Operations Manager This article appeared on WealthManagement.com   In today’s connected world, businesses constantly search for innovative ways to boost their brand presence and break through the noise. While digital marketing, social media, and influencer partnerships are all essential components of a robust [...]

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Cracking the Code of Dinner Event Emails: Key Findings from an Extensive Review

Written by Andrew Preshong, Email Marketing Manager at Simplicity Lone Beacon, and edited by Marcus Roth, Senior Director of Email Marketing, Automation, and Content at Simplicity Lone Beacon. Over the past 7 months, our email team conducted an extensive review of our advisors' Complimentary Dinner Event emails to find out [...]

Three Keys to a Successful Digital Brand for Advisors

By Mike Schaffman, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Building and sustaining a quality digital brand requires discipline and creativity. Financial advisors operate in one of the most highly commoditized industries where authenticity and trust reign supreme. Here are three important keys to consider for a successful [...]

How to Transform Your Financial Knowledge into Compelling Content

By Graeme Mills, Content Manager for Simplicity Lone Beacon. As a financial advisor in the digital age, transforming your financial and economic expertise into compelling content is an essential skill that can be the difference between gaining market share in new advertising channels and floundering along with the pack. Compelling [...]

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Two Ways to Jumpstart Your Video Marketing Strategy

By Mike Schaffman, Simplicity Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing.    Videos can be one of the most efficient ways for advisors to thoughtfully communicate with and educate their audiences. That said, it is crucial for advisors to be authentic and understand that each video must have a [...]

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