Is social media marketing an option or a necessity for the successful financial advisor today? Although, in the words of Mark Twain, “All generalizations are false,...
For a variety of reasons, the financial advisor workforce is getting older. Although there are a number of important implications to this trend, one widely-held view is...
I’m reading a first-rate new book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business, by Harvard Business Professor Frances Frei and global...
Financial Advisors…brace yourselves for more competition! Come mid-Fall, hedge funds could be pitching their services to wealth management clients with alluring...
It’s a paradox! Just as opportunities for financial advisors are on the rise, more advisors than ever before are leaving the industry. A study by research firm Cerulli...
Marketing is one of the most critical activities in the ClientWise Professional Advisory Model™ (PAM™). An effective marketing campaign leverages your branding message...
There’s some interesting research that indicates the number of Americans who will retire abroad is likely to grow by 9 times, over the next few years. As a marketing...
Many financial advisors want more exposure in the media. It’s a no-brainer really. Media attention raises your awareness with potential clients, potential professional...
Following a pilot program that gave 600 financial advisors access to Twitter and LinkedIn, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has taken the training wheels off and gave...
Many top-performing financial advisors demonstrate the ability to identify and refine what we, at ClientWise, call the ideal client type. This is a targeted demographic...
Networking is one of those activities that a lot of people do…poorly. Hardly surprising! There’s something vaguely intimidating about entering a room full of strange...