Six ways to get more referrals from your financial advisory clients

Six ways to get more referrals from your financial advisory clients

Building a strong relationship with your clients beyond managing their money and speaking about their finances can be one of the most critical components to growing your practice.

Small gestures of appreciation can have a significant impact. By sending anniversary emails, hosting client-specific events, encouraging social media connections, producing monthly video updates, organizing webinars and educational events, and sharing regular newsletters, you can maintain a more robust connection with your clients without much hassle. These efforts show you care and help your clients trust you more, keeping them loyal to you over the long-term.

Benefits of an Outsourced Chief Marketing Officer for RIAs

Benefits of an Outsourced Chief Marketing Officer for RIAs

Select Advisors Institute offers comprehensive marketing solutions tailored specifically for financial advisors. With expertise in digital marketing, their services include email marketing, social media management, website design, search engine optimization, and advertising. These strategies aim to increase visibility, generate leads, and drive revenue for financial advisors. The agency also specializes in seminar marketing, strategies for registered investment advisors (RIA), and marketing plans. Select Advisors Institute's personalized approach ensures that each client's unique needs are met, helping them stand out in the competitive landscape of the financial advisory industry. By outsourcing marketing to the agency, financial advisors can save valuable time and benefit from the agency's industry knowledge and specialized resources. The article emphasizes the benefits of working with an investor-specific CMO, such as avoiding the costs and challenges of hiring an in-house marketing team. Overall, Select Advisors Institute offers a range of services and expertise to help financial advisors succeed in their marketing efforts.

How to improve the quality of your client referrals received

How to improve the quality of your client referrals received

This blog post explores the importance of improving referral quality for financial advisors. While receiving referrals is typically viewed positively, advisors often encounter referrals that don't align with their target client profile or fail to convert into actual clients. The post highlights three key factors contributing to this issue. Firstly, the lack of clarity on the advisor's niche market, emphasizing the need for a specific and well-defined ideal client. Secondly, referrals driven by niceness rather than suitability, necessitating client education on making appropriate referrals. Lastly, the importance of strong sales coaching and consultative skills to effectively convert referrals into clients. Addressing these factors can optimize referral processes, attract ideal clients, and foster business growth.

The Best Social Media Strategy for Financial Planners in 2024

The Best Social Media Strategy for Financial Planners in 2024

A January 2024 report showed that more than half of the world currently uses social media (62.3%). 5.04 billion people around the world now use social media, with 266 million new users coming online within the last year.What’s more: The average daily time spent using social media is 2h 23m!

So how can financial advisors and financial planners maximize their social media marketing strategy so they can better engage with their clients and find new prospects? This article goes into some strategies and methods!

Marketing agency for wealth managers and financial advisors

Marketing agency for wealth managers and financial advisors

In a fiercely competitive industry, financial advisors must prioritize effective marketing to attract clients and drive business growth. Crafting a well-structured marketing plan, leveraging the power of digital marketing and social media, collaborating with specialized marketing agencies, and providing valuable content through content marketing are key strategies to achieve success. By adopting innovative tactics and utilizing marketing automation, financial advisors can differentiate themselves, build credibility, and establish strong client relationships.

RIA's: Don't let AI scare you, it can increase your margins!

RIA's: Don't let AI scare you, it can increase your margins!

Select Advisors understands the challenges businesses face when integrating AI into their practices. Our AI consulting services offer tailored guidance and solutions to fully leverage the potential of AI. From devising bespoke AI strategies to selecting the right development partner and providing ongoing optimization, we ensure sustainable growth and success.

Conquering the Cocktail Party: Six Steps for Effortless Mingling

Conquering the Cocktail Party: Six Steps for Effortless Mingling

Networking is crucial for career development and business growth. Mastering networking skills leads to valuable connections and opportunities. Strategies include making connections during introductions, confidently approaching groups, excelling at small talk, avoiding controversial topics, and knowing when to move on.

How to Build a 2024 Financial Advisor Marketing Plan?

How to Build a 2024 Financial Advisor Marketing Plan?

Are you finding that your marketing and sales efforts are falling short of expectations, leaving you frustrated or surrounded by excuses? It's time to break free from the mundane routine and discover a more intentional approach to your growth efforts. This article outlines how, by first understanding the difference between a marketing strategy and a marketing plan.

2024 Prospecting Strategy for Financial Advisors: Build Your Trust Visibility

2024 Prospecting Strategy for Financial Advisors: Build Your Trust Visibility

YOU and your clients believe you are trustworthy. But how can you prove that to those who don’t know you? Is there a benchmark for measuring your trust level against, so you can measure your stats and improve them if need be? We believe so, and we want to show you the building blocks around measuring “trust.”

Use Gamification with Your Clients and Team for More Growth

Use Gamification with Your Clients and Team for More Growth

Gamification is a powerful tool that can enhance performance and growth in finance, law, and accounting. By applying game mechanics to non-game contexts, it drives engagement and motivation. This article highlights the benefits of gamification and offers five strategies for financial and legal professionals to implement. These strategies include referral contests, financial education quizzes, thought leadership contests, and more. Gamification can increase engagement, improve knowledge retention, foster collaboration, provide real-time feedback, and support continuous learning and development. By embracing gamification, professionals can create an exciting and dynamic workplace culture while empowering their teams to succeed.

Outsourced and Fractional Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for RIA’s and Financial Firms

Outsourced and Fractional Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for RIA’s and Financial Firms

Why you may want to outsource your Chief Marketing Officer Role to a full agency that focuses exclusively on the financial and legal industries, rather than looking to do it all inhouse. This article is about financial advisor marketing through a wealth management marketing agency that can help you, with a CMO and entire team of experts.

Liquid Death: A Case Study on Branding Water

Liquid Death: A Case Study on Branding Water

A branding case study on turning a mundane product or service into a rebellious, heavy metal-inspired brand that resonates with consumers. Dive into this fascinating case study and uncover the power of daring to be different, embracing authenticity, and disrupting traditional marketing norms, and learn lessons on applying it to your financial, legal or accounting practice.

SEC Marketing Rule, Rule 206(4)-1 of the Advisers Act

SEC Marketing Rule, Rule 206(4)-1 of the Advisers Act

Advisors are starting to be modernized to the 2020’s by the SEC! In this video interview with attorney Chris Stanely, we learn more about the details of the new adopted amendments to Rule 206(4)-1 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the Advisers Act) to modernize the regulation of investment adviser advertising and solicitation practices. More importantly, we discuss how to maximize these updates for your practice’s marketing efforts!

The Good the Bad and the Ugly of the Super Rich UHNW

The Good the Bad and the Ugly of the Super Rich UHNW

People envision the ultra high net worth lifestyle to be nothing short of perfect - Glamorous, fun, relaxing and liberating. What most people don’t know is the downside of extreme wealth. We have covered those challenges in this article.

Best questions to ask your team during your sales/pipeline review meetings

Best questions to ask your team during your sales/pipeline review meetings

Managing a sales team, or developing a new one, can be frustrating, especially if you don’t know how to best coach your team around sales to develop their pipeline. In this article, we’ve outlined 10 questions to help shape your meetings for better outcome.

The Most Private of Private Members' Clubs

The Most Private of Private Members' Clubs

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the doors of the world’s most private members clubs?  Discover the opulence of London's newest and most private enclave; where history, art, and extravagance converge. We unveil the secrets of Apollo's Muse, redefining luxury and exclusivity.

Salary and Compensation Rates at Family Offices and RIA's

Salary and Compensation Rates at Family Offices and RIA's

Salary and compensation levels for various roles and titles within the family office space. While these are numbers driven from the single family office space, they can be used as reference levels for the wealth management industry as a whole.

Amy in Barron's Podcast: How to Motivate Advisor Teams With Creative Compensation

Amy in Barron's Podcast: How to Motivate Advisor Teams With Creative Compensation

Amy Parvaneh was recently published in Barron’s, and recorded for Barron’s Advisor Podcast, about compensation and pay packages that are most suitable for advisory teams and firms around business development. In the recording, she discusses the downfalls of the traditional revenue split, and how to best align your team’s roles and responsibilities (including around business development) with their personality.

Wealth Management Firms: Different Compensation Structures for Your "Sales" Team

Wealth Management Firms: Different Compensation Structures for Your "Sales" Team

How to pay your staff for business development as an RIA? What are the different compensation models for RIA’s for bringing in new business? This article explains it all!

Should You Rename Your Advisory Practice?

Should You Rename Your Advisory Practice?

Choosing a name for your practice should not be taken lightly. Name ideas for a wealth management practice are aplenty, but most advisors seem to lean towards the same style and approach, which can be hurting them in the long run. Read this about the art of naming a new or existing advisory practice!