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Our recent articles offer digital marketing tips for the independent financial advisors.
How Content Generates Digital “Micro Buy-Ins”
By Graeme Mills, Content Manager for Simplicity Lone Beacon. When it comes to choosing a financial advisor, trust isn’t built overnight. It’s built gradually over time, through repeated interactions. [...]
Understand That You’re On Your Prospects’ Timeline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_LdwZptKak You can’t rush results—and you can’t control when a prospect is ready to move forward. This clip focuses on the importance of understanding that you’re always on your [...]
Pay Attention to Digital and In-Person Buying Signals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QMJG5QJN6E The strongest prospects often show their interest before they ever say a word—you just need to know what to look for. This clip breaks down digital and in-person [...]
Diversify How You Reach Prospects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_2R28xfL28 Relying on just one way to reach prospects is like putting all your investments in a single stock—risky. This clip dives into why financial advisors should diversify their [...]
How Financial Advisors Can Be Certain a Prospect Is Interested In Becoming a Client
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htBEVU-JNk0 Prospects often reveal their interest long before they ever speak to you—and the proof is in their digital behavior. This clip focuses on the digital evidence that someone [...]
How To Optimize Financial Advisor Websites For AI Search Overviews
By: Kirby G Mack (Vice President of Digital Media at Simplicity Lone Beacon) As of 2025, AI tools like ChatGPT are increasingly used for general searches, and the trend [...]
TCJ Episode 37: Buying Signals Financial Advisors Should Pay Attention To
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIn7-ViK7t4 Not all prospects raise their hand when they’re ready to work with you—but they do leave clues. In this video, we break down the digital and in-person buying [...]
TCJ Episode 36: Why Marketing Diversification Is Crucial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf8x4E11Tzg In the same way financial advisors preach the importance of portfolio diversification to weather market volatility, the smartest advisors are also diversifying their marketing strategies to ensure consistent [...]
Simplicity OneCast: Stop Talking, Start Closing: Strategies That Win and Grow Clients
In this month’s OneCast, John Capuano joins Mike Schaffman for a conversation on what it takes to increase wallet share and close more clients in today’s commoditized financial [...]
TCJ Episode 35: Allocating Time for Your Marketing Efforts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_PKDN9iBag Welcome back to another episode of The Customer Journey! In this episode, Mike and Greg talk about the importance of qualifying your marketing. Financial Advisors struggle to spend [...]
Wealth Transfer is Your Opportunity for Multigenerational Client Retention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va_l8Cq5F-k The Great Wealth Transfer isn’t on the horizon—it’s already happening. Trillions of dollars held by the Baby Boomer generation are beginning to pass into the hands of their [...]
Increase Wallet Share & Be the One-Stop-Shop Advisory Firm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx-xBZUKMA0 Clients sometimes worry that working with one advisor for everything means putting all their eggs in one basket. But with a Simplicity advisor, that couldn’t be further from [...]
