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Prospects Have Lots of Problems; Your Message Needs to Focus on Just One
When creating your marketing message for your niche, you want to articulate the one unique problem your niche faces. Here are questions to help you address that overriding problem.
How Financial Advisors Can Make Their Marketing Message Stand Out
To be an uncomparable financial advisor, you need a marketing message that is simple, clear, and repeated often. Here’s a framework for creating your message.
How to Be an Uncomparable Advisor
When you become an uncomparable financial advisor, you don’t have to compete with other advisors because you are unique. Here are the five components of uncomparability.
Incomparable or Uncomparable, Which are You?
Advisors seek to be incomparable, or better than the competition. But this marketing tactic creates a neck-and-neck race that they can’t win. Instead of being incomparable, choose to be uncomparable.
The Year-One Niche Marketing Plan for Advisors
It can take three years before a niche focus takes off for your financial advisory business. This article covers seven marketing steps for year one to ensure you lay a solid foundation for success.
Should Advisors Have More Than One Niche?
Firms often consider launching multiple niches rather than focusing on just one. Though sometimes successful, this approach can dissipate your marketing efforts. This article offers guidelines to determine whether having multiple niches is for you.
The 12-Week Advisor Marketing Plan
Give yourself a year to implement a marketing plan, and it will promote procrastination and won’t be nimble. Instead of planning out your advisory firm’s marketing tactics for an entire year, create a plan that spans just 12 weeks.
Use Your Calendaring System to Qualify Prospects
Here’s how to customize your calendaring system so that you weed out unqualified prospects and spend your time talking to qualified ones.
Nine Steps to Launch a New Niche
Firms reach a certain size and decide to focus their marketing on a specific client segment or groom younger advisors into business development roles via a niche specialization. But how do these firms establish themselves with a niche? These nine steps will help.
Where Is Your Marketing Failing?
You can follow all the marketing best practices and still see your strategy fail. Rather than randomly implement new tactics, you can view your marketing as an arch that supports your business. Here are the specific areas of your arch to assess for weakness.