“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Brian Portnoy explains “funded contentment,” the happiness equation, and how he defines the modern advisor [Video: 14-minutes]: How To Use A Purpose-Based Financial Planning Approach / Grow Episode 46 [Dasarte Yarnway, Altruist] Lessons from growing to $100 AUM in 4 years [Twitter thread]: Lessons From The Past 4 Years [Kyle Moore, Quarry Hill] How to “humanize” the sales process by personalizing “cold” emails with minimal time investment [Podcast: 53-minutes]: “You’re talking about the great sales mystery of over qualifying versus under…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (May 29-31 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Industry recruiting veteran Shannon O’Toole with excellent, all-encompassing advice for your next interview [Podcast: 28-minutes]: “I think it’s an interesting time right now to be a candidate. I do, from my perspective, think that the industry has a shortage of talent. You can be a little bit more picky right now as a candidate. So, just as I tell a firm owner that they really need to think about who it is they want to hire and what those values and…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (May 15-16 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Matt Sonnen shows why defining a niche, or target client “persona” is so important and affects more than just your marketing [Article: 4-minute read]: “Nikolee then added some hard data supporting her advice. Citing Schwab’s benchmarking data, she quoted that firms that have a documented ideal client persona to guide them add 28% more clients annually, which represents 45% more assets.” How Important Is It To Define Your Ideal Client? [Matt Sonnen, WealthManagement.com] Why a podcast can develop greater relationships with current…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (May 8-9 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. How Thomas Kopelman picked up 5 new clients in about 6 months through his Instagram efforts and how he structures his fee model to make serving millennials profitable [Video: 22-minutes]: How To Utilize Instagram To Grow Your Business [Samantha Russell, Twenty Over Ten] The anatomy of an effective marketing funnel and the importance of “micro-commitments” [Podcast: 53-minutes]: “There is some large financial event that happens once every two years. So the goal [at the] top-of-funnel is not to move the money.…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (May 1-2 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Co-founder and President of Journey Strategic Wealth, Penny Phillips shares: how to know when to double down on current marketing strategies versus experimenting with new social media platforms what differentiates advisors who actually implement new marketing tactics and best practices the trends successful advisory firms of the future will be capitalizing on …and more, in this podcast with FMG Suite’s Samantha Russell [Podcast: 42-minutes]: “Every single day, it’s like ‘Get on Clubhouse. Do this Podcast.’ To some extent you have to…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (April 24-25 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Why Facebook will soon be putting a higher premium on quality, engaging content and how to boost your Facebook organic reach with an “engagement stack” [Article: 12-minute read. Podcast: 47-minutes.]: “With the upcoming iOS changes and Google Privacy Sandbox, off-platform actions are going to be harder for Facebook to track. Because they’ll be more limited in the data they can collect, content on the Facebook platform will become even more important.” How To Improve Your Facebook Organic Reach [Michael Stelzner, Social Media…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (March 6-7, 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. New Planner Recruiting’s Caleb Brown shares his tips for how new financial planners can gain confidence in low-risk environments [Video: 3-minutes]: 5 Ways To Gain Confidence As A New Planner [Caleb Brown, New Planner Recruiting] ProudMouth founder and CEO Kirk Lowe shares how to accelerate your content marketing results with organic strategies, how a small podcast audience can get just as much ROI as more established podcasts, and multiple marketing tactics to leverage your podcast episodes with “centers of influence” and…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (February 27-28, 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Keil Financial Partners founder Jeremy Keil shares how his repeatable marketing process allowed him to double his marketing budget at the start of the pandemic, the podcast content strategy that allowed him to develop his podcasting skills after he started his podcast, the benefits of “motivational interviewing” and more [Podcast: 57-minutes]: “When I talked to him he said, “When I went to your website, everything that’s on there is exactly what I’m looking for. You gave me all kinds of information:…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (February 20-21, 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. InvestmentNews 40 Under 40 advisor Luis Rosa explains the multiple benefits of committing to a content marketing plan and how to get started [Video: 9-minutes]: Content Marketing Is Still The Best Growth Hack [Dasarte Yarnway, Altruist] Altruist’s Marketing Manager Shabana Siyed provides five principles for creating compelling marketing content [Article: 6-minute read]: “I like to think of marketing and content creation as “dating.” When dating, you don’t go into the first date planning to put a ring on it, but rather, you…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (February 6-7, 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Samantha Russell with Twenty Over Ten shares a day-by-day workflow to get more out of your social media strategy [Article: 5-minute read]: “Well, it’s not a secret anymore. At Twenty Over Ten, I have a weekly checklist to maximize our social media efforts. I’m a huge believer in checklists and implementing this one maximizes our social media reach effectively and efficiently. Best of all, this checklist can be adjusted to fit any advisory businesses’ schedule.” My Daily Checklist For Dominating Social Media…
