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.

Here’s how to customize your calendaring system so that you weed out unqualified prospects and spend your time talking to qualified ones.

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.