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, [...]
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 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 Through opt-outs and outdated email lists in your sales funnel, you could be marketing to countless unqualified leads.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 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 [...]
Use all five of your senses when analyzing what you're putting out there for potential clients to see for the first time. Originally appeared in WealthManagement.com By Mike Schaffman, VP of Sales and Marketing. According to a recent Business Wire survey report, 86% of consumers will leave a [...]
Get smart about engaging with the next set of retirees. By Marcus Roth, Senior Director of Email, Automation, and Content. This article originally appeared on WealthManagement.com Buying an email list in 2022 no longer has a reasonable benefit when compared with the litany of downsides that come [...]
Financial advisors, who's giving you your digital advice? If you’re investing in digital media for lead generation, chances are you know very little about how to decipher and measure results, or whether or not you have a legitimate plan to crack the code of digital marketing. It’s possible that the [...]
Get smart about engaging with the next set of retirees. By Craig Foster, Director of Media. This article originally appeared on WealthManagement.com Generation X to many people is the forgotten generation that falls between the baby boomers and millennials. But this is a generation now entering the prime [...]
Use all five of your senses when analyzing what you're putting out there for potential clients to see for the first time. By Mike Schaffman, VP of Sales and Marketing. This article originally appeared on WealthManagement.com In psychology, a first impression occurs when someone establishes a mental image [...]
The truth is that we, as business leaders, put too much pressure on data to solve all our roadblocks and setbacks. Make no mistake, data is the most important marketing currency, and we at Simplicity Lone Beacon consider it—first-party data especially—our lifeblood. The problem is that many who seek [...]
