Top Advisor Marketing

Episode 28 - Why Advisors Should Care About Behavioral Finance

Prasad Ramani, founder of Syntoniq, joins us to discuss the simple and compelling applications of behavioral finance in an advisor's practice and a client's life. Prasad discusses: why is BF important, how does it impact client investment behavior, why is it a factor when it comes to business development, and how BF can be used to develop and strength relationships with new and existing clients. 

LINKEDIN | BIO | WEBSITE | TAKE BF ASSESSMENT

Episode 27 - The #1 Selling Mistake Keeping Advisors From Earning Serious Money w Jimmy Lyons & Jeff Tompkins

AdvisorConnects's Jimmy Lyons and Jeff Tompkins join Matt Halloran for a discussion on ways advisors can adopt technology to make their practice and lives better. In the age of digital fatigue, advisors need to find how to connect technology to simplify how it works, how much it costs and how it can give them more time, not less. 

LINKS: AdvisorConnect.co | LINKEDIN (Jimmy) | LINKEDIN (Jeff)

 

Episode 20 - "5 Communication Faux Pas, Missteps and Mistakes" by Renee Walker, Marketing Strategist

Matt, Kirk and Renee talk about branding, marketing and how to help advisors improve marketing communications. Renee shares her "5 Communication Faux Pas, Missteps and Mistakes". Advisors need to avoid making these mistakes to enhance their marketing success. Renee has an interesting background having worked with politicians for years helping them with marketing communciations and branding.

GUEST BIO: Ensightium  | LinkedIn

Renée T. Walker has earned many titles: brand whiz, business and communication strategist, entrepreneur, author, speaker, business and executive coach, accredited public relations pro. Her wisdom and insights on strategic communications, brand building and reputation management help her growth-stage clients accelerate results and solve complex business challenges.

Episode 19 - Get to Know Doug Heikkinen at IRIS.xyz

Doug chats about his incredible financial content and media platform (IRIS.xyz) - and how and why he got started. Doug talks about the advent of financial planning too- great story. IRIS is an incredible platform (community) for advisors to learn and share their content. You'll want to listen to this podcast then check IRIS out. 

GUEST BIO:

IRIS.XYZ | LINKEDIN

Douglas Heikkinen brings over 25 years of experience as a marketing and communications professional and a client-side procurer of information and services to the financial sector and others. He is a defector from the corporate world, taking with him a thorough understanding of the mindset of capital business.

Episode 15 - Get to Know Susan Bradley & Sudden Money Institute

Susan discusses her journey to being the foremost expert on transition planning. She relays the importance of advisors’ role in helping people with sudden money and describes the “Financial Transitionist” role, training and credential.

LINKS:

SuddenMoney.com | Book, “Sudden Money: Managing a Financial Windfall”

GUEST BIO:

Susan Bradley is the founder of the Sudden Money® Institute (SMI), a resource center for Life Transitions and Good Decisions. The Institute trains financial advisors and other professionals in Financial Transitions Planning, a unique set of process and tools for managing the human dynamics of financial change.  Susan is the author of Sudden Money: Managing a Financial Windfall (Wiley 2000).

Episode 13 - Get to Know John Frankot & TripleRMedia's HNW Marketing Approach

HNW practices are driven by relationships. Every advisory knows this. A big issue is that advisors don't have a system in place to nurture these relationships. Top-of-mind is great but mind-share is better. Advisors need to find out how to be within an ideal prospects sphere of influence. It starts with meeting HNW prospects where they are - with what interests them.

GUEST BIO:

John helps businesses with high net worth clients Cut Through the Noise, Cultivate Relationships, and Increase Referrals. He is founder and president of Triple R Media.

linkedin.com/in/johnfrankot | Life Refined Magazine

Episode 10 - Get to Know Robert Sofia & Snappy Kraken's Marketing Platform

Advisors can't build good marketing while considering how to make "compliance" happy. It's better to start with what will work then work backwards to get compliance on board or to make small concessions. Lots more financial marketing and success nuggets throughout this podcast.

Robert launched a platform to help advisors automate many parts of their business (prospecting, client experience, client communication, prospect mgmt) so advisors can focus on the only thing they can't outsource of automate, meeting with clients. Lots of great insight into Snappy Kraken's platform.

Mentions: Robert Sofia, Snappy Kraken

GUEST BIO:

Robert Sofia founded Snappy Kraken, a SaaS marketing solution that helps financial advisors personalize, automate, and track marketing campaigns and business processes. SnappyKraken.com

 

 

Episode 8 - Getting to Know Sheryl Brown of Ash Brokerage

Sheryl shares her passion for business development, life, financial literacy and a better world. She talks about how Advisors are too often caught up in finspeak (financial industry jargon) to truly connect with, engage and influence the masses of seemingly uninterested investors, how important listening is to selling, and how Advisors rarely adopt and adapt to the what the leading thinkers in this industry are talking about, doing and succeeding at.

Peer book Sheryl referenced: Flirting With The Uninterested

GUEST BIO:

Director of the Business Development Analyst Team at Ash Brokerage. Passionate business development and social media expert. Helps financial professionals expand their influence and grow their businesses. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

Episode 4 - The Pursuit of Absolute Engagement w/Julie Littlechild

Human beings aren’t equipped with unlimited battery backs. The growth of our businesses goes hand-in-hand with our personal wellbeing. How does personal vision fit into business vision? How do you build a business that supports the life you want for yourself? Why is audacity necessary in achievement and action? On this episode, author, speaker and coach talks about her book The Pursuit of Absolute Engagement and gives insight on the principles she wrote about.

To pursue absolute engagement is to be intentional about structuring your business in a way that supports meaningful growth. Julie Littlechild

Guest Bio:

Julie Littlechild is a speaker, writer and the Founder of AbsoluteEngagement.com. She helps successful professionals and entrepreneurs design businesses that support the lives they want to live and to create lives that fuel their capacity to do just that. Julie has worked with and studied top producing professionals, their clients and their teams for twenty years. She is a recognized expert on driving deeper engagement and growth and the author of a popular blog. To get in touch email jlittlechild@absoluteengagement.com. To learn more about her book or buy it www.AbsoluteEngagement.com/book.

Episode 2 - Top 5 Keys To Working With the Press To Grow Your Advisor Practice w/Matt Ackermann

Advisors aspire to be an asset for the media, and someone journalists want to interview. What increases your chances of building that kind of relationship? On this episode we share insights on the top 5 things advisors should know about when it comes to working with the press. We talk about knowing your interviewer and building conversational relationships with Investment News’ digital content director Matt Ackermann.  

Guest Bio:

Matt is the director of digital content at Investment News.  Follow him on Twitter @acketyack.