SMART ADVISOR MARKETING

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Entries Tagged as 'Financial Advisors'

Scratch the Itch

January 11th, 2008 · No Comments

The easiest sales we ever closed were the clients who had problems that we could solve.
Check out these headlines from the last few weeks:
“U.S. stocks are off to the worst start to the year on record, according to key market measures”
“2007 may be a record year for capital gains distributions from mutual […]

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Tags: Build Your Market · SEO · Business Development · Webinar · Client Communications · Internet Marketing · Selling · Financial Advisors · Marketing · Baby Boomer · Uncategorized

Fall is Planning Season

October 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

This quarter is the perfect time for business development. Don’t let the holidays distract you from your marketing efforts because many advisors generate 1/3 of their annual income in these three months. Here are just a few concepts to help you focus:
1. CD Rollovers - the chaos in the sub-prime mortgage market has spilled over […]

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Tags: CD Rollover · RMD · QCD · IRA Distribution · Build Your Market · Client Communications · Selling · Financial Advisors · Marketing · Financial Planning · Annuity

If You Don’t Ask, They Can’t Become Clients

September 18th, 2007 · No Comments

If you don’t ask, they can’t become clients
We had an advisor ask us about incorporating more “calls to action” on his website. “Of course we can do that - who are your customers and what would you like the visitors to do?” we asked? “I don’t know - you’re the marketing people, you tell me […]

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Tags: Build Your Market · Persuasion · SEO · Client Communications · Internet Marketing · Financial Advisors · Marketing · Selling

Stop Client Dissatisfaction and Grow Your Business

September 13th, 2007 · No Comments

For the past several months we have been surveying advisors about their marketing programs. When we ask them which marketing tools they use, it amazes us that only about 21% use a client newsletter.
We heard leading advisors from a recent conference podium say:
“I had an existing client transfer an additional $700,000 IRA account to me […]

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Tags: Client Communications · Build Your Market · Internet Marketing · Credential · Financial Advisors · Marketing · Selling

Email Marketing Best Practices for Advisors Should Not Include Spyware

September 6th, 2007 · No Comments

A week or so ago we got a call from one of our customers who wanted to know if we did ‘email capture’. We explained that his website visitors can sign up for a newsletter, request information or enroll for an event and when they did that they supplied their email address.

No, that’s not what […]

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Tags: Client Communications · Seminar · Email · Spam · Newsletter · Internet Marketing · Financial Advisors · Marketing · Baby Boomer · Selling