Make Marketing Data Your Best Friend in 2021
Marketing can be a tough nut to crack. You know it’s essential to growing your financial advisory business and reaching new, potential clients. But the return on investment (ROI) for marketing activities can be difficult to quantify. Historically, “marketing” for financial advisors
Tailor Technology to Suit Your Clients — Not the Other Way Around
Virtual Certified Financial Planner Derek N.H. Notman, CFP®, shared an interesting post on LinkedIn. With the following graphic, he posed the question, “Fellow financial advisors, what is wrong with this picture?” The post spurred a thoughtful discussion about the role technology
How Financial Advisors Can Use Drip Campaigns to Transform Leads into Clients
If you weren’t marketing to prospects digitally before the COVID-19 pandemic, then now is the time to get started. As the number of COVID-19 cases ramps up again, and as more states lockdown ahead of a projected holiday spike, your
Why Women and Millennials Are Essential to the Future of Financial Advice
If you’re a financial advisor, you already know that women and millennials are two markets that are increasing in both financial power and independence. Yet, for myriad reasons, many advisors have not tapped into or placed enough focus on these
Client Engagement: How to Make the Most of Your Efforts During COVID-19
“Curveball” — there is not a more perfect word to describe the past 11 months. Businesses and employees across industries have been challenged to leave their comfort zones and adapt to a new way of working. Financial advisors were not
Financial Advisors: How to Create Real and Authentic Client Communications
Authenticity. It is a word that we see often and, likely, appreciate. Who doesn’t want to be authentic in a world of smoke-and-mirrors? Even though it may be the predominant buzzword used by a marketing professional or seasoned financial advisor, marketing
Overcoming Fear by Gretchen Halpin on Databird
Our Co-Founder Gretchen Halpin was featured on Databird Business Journal about how she built her way to the top of the financial services industry by overcoming fear. Gretchen Halpin discussed inspirations, goals, and how to overcome obstacles. Read the full
Creating a Newsletter That Clients and Prospects Will Actually Read
Let’s face it: we live in an over-communicated age. If earlier decades were an information desert, our current culture is an information rain-forest by comparison. You, your clients, and your prospects are inundated daily by the latest headlines and opinions
Ask Before You Hire: What Financial Advisors Need to Know about Digital Marketing Firms
Your financial advisory firm is growing; you’ve got a solid client base, and you’ve built an in-house team with a shared vision and the dedication to back it up. You’re ready to take your firm’s marketing efforts to the next
Best Practices for Refining Your Personal Brand
Let’s start with the obvious: the financial advisory business is a personal business. Our success depends on building relationships with our clients — relationships built on trust. And then, as financial planners and wealth managers, we must perform and communicate