You Can’t Buy Organic Growth
Let's face it: M&A is big news in our industry. It's hard to go more than a few days at a time without seeing in an industry periodical or one of your social media feeds that Firm A has been
The Women’s Market Isn’t One Audience. It’s Several.
Marketing your practice to women is different than pitching it to men, and advisors must know the differences if they are to succeed, a panel of women said at the Invest In Women conference. Women Aren't One Audience Women are not a
Why Putting Clients First Is Still the Best Growth Strategy
It’s not counterintuitive or selfish — unprofitable firms forced to close their doors can’t serve clients. At first, the title of this article might seem like an impossible contradiction. After all, it is a dictum in the RIA space that our
What Advisory Clients Are Willing to Pay For. Hint: It’s Not Always Investment Management
Here’s how to spend less time justifying your value and more time guiding clients to toward their hopes, values and and dreams. There’s a great story about a company with a broken-down piece of equipment. Unfortunately, the equipment was essential to
Crossing the Digital Divide: 6 Keys for Marketing to Gen Z
Here’s a story about two houses. One belonged to a baby boomer, and it was his pride and joy. He graduated from college in the early 1970s, got his first job, and started saving. When he received a small inheritance from
Know Your Audience, Grow Your Practice: Using Data to Personalize Your Online Presence
In his 1970 bestseller “Future Shock,” the prescient author Alvin Toffler coined the phrase, “high tech/high touch.” He was suggesting — in 1970! — what we have come to take as an assumption today: that advances in technology typically require