How to Grow Your Email List
By now we should all know how important an email list is. Despite all the new fangled ways to communicate and keep in touch, the simple, mild-mannered email still continues to dominate the field....
View ArticleYour Social Presence: Diamonds & What Happens on the Internet Are Forever
Understanding Your Social Presence Back when it was more commonly known as the ‘World Wide Web,’ the internet was seen as an ‘other’ space, one that existed beyond the reaches of The Real World. What...
View ArticleWhy Good Aesthetic is Important to Your Website
Today we’ll focus on one of the two primary mediums of a website, visual elements, and why it’s important to utilize it. Get the Look We love to look at things that look good. We can’t help it, our...
View ArticleThe Glossary of Web Marketing Terms for Financial Advisors
The vocabulary of any financial web marketer can take a little time to catch onto. Digital marketing lingo dominates forums, social networks, and blogs from around the web, so it’s important that...
View ArticleWhy It’s Essential To Update Your Web Browser – Part 2
This is the second part of the series, Why It’s Essential To Update Your Web Browser. (see part 1 here) Browser Breakdown Here’s a breakdown of browsers that are the most widely used today: Google...
View ArticleWhy it’s Essential to Update Your Web Browser – Part 1
Let’s be honest, how often are you on the Internet? Once a week? maybe once a day? Perhaps even a few times a day? If you’re anything like me, you’re on it the entire day. Now let me just clarify...
View Article3 Ways To Grow Your Marketing Lists Online
Here’s a sad-but-true fact: email marketing databases degrade by about 25% every year. Your contacts may chance their email addresses, moving from one company to another, they may unsubscribe from...
View ArticleHow To Create a Google+ Business Page
By Sara Ruthnum. Google is the champ of search engines, and since we know that the average consumer turns to Google more than ever to research relevant products and services, it is more important than...
View ArticleThe Essentials of Google Analytics for Financial Blogging
By Sara Ruthnum. The modern marketer is one part artist and one part scientist. Not only do you have to be creative, engaging the senses of your web traffic, but also you have to remember the numbers –...
View ArticleHow Financial Professionals Can Find Which Keywords They Should Target
By Sara Ruthnum. So you’ve been reading our blog lately, and realized that content marketing is a valuable component to your financial web marketing strategy. But even more important is to have a fresh...
View ArticleHow Ron Burgundy Won Content Marketing
Let’s face it, you work hard and deserve a little break. We’re going to keep things light today, but prepare yourself, today we look at greatness. We look into the brilliance of one man, nee legend,...
View ArticleTop 3 New Year’s Resolutions For Financial Broker Dealers [ Infographic ]
Back in August, we surveyed professionals from 13 Broker Dealers to find out exactly how they approach digital marketing. The results revealed a couple of interesting trends: 1. The overall attitude...
View ArticleTop 3 SEO DON’Ts for Advisor Websites
SEO or Search Engine Optimization is the process of improving the visibility of a website/web page in a search engine’s results. The earlier and more frequently a site appears in the search result...
View ArticleTop 3 Mistakes Most Advisors Make Online
In the 10+ years we’ve been building websites for the financial community, we’ve noticed that advisors come across a number of obstacles when it comes to web building. Take a look at the top three...
View ArticleWhy Financial Blogging Works: The Bottom Line
Have you heard of the term SEO? If you have a website, you may know that Search Engine Optimization (SEO), is the process of improving the visibility of a website in a search engine’s results. The...
View ArticleOne Simple Way to Create Fresh Content for Your Advisor Website
No doubt you’ve heard the axiom, “On the Web, Content is King.” After all, content is the entire reason the Web exists and why nearly 78 percent of American adults spend an average of 20 hours a week...
View Article2 Simple Metrics That Reveal if Your Financial Blog is Working
The impact of blogging for financial advisors on their website traffic is remarkable. That’s because content is one of the most important aspects of any website. Both people and search engines come to...
View ArticleWhat Should Advisors Measure In Order to Gauge Social Media Success?
The Social Media Revolution is under way! Statistics show that half of the entire world uses social media so you can bet that your target markets are already socially engaged. From a business...
View ArticleThe Number One Marketing Mistake
Maribeth Kuzmeski, marketing guru and president of Red Zone Marketing, is someone we’re always happy to call a friend. Maribeth has led her firm in consulting with some of the nation’s top financial...
View ArticleHow Often Should Advisors Post on Social Media
Earlier this week Advisor Websites was quoted in Financial Planning Magazine in an article discussing how often advisors should post on social media. We continue to hear the debate over the frequency...
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