“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. ICYMI: Define Financial’s Taylor Schulte shares two straightforward SEO strategies that produce outsized results [Article]: “In January 2018, organic search traffic (i.e., the number of people who visited my website as a result of using a search engine) for my website lagged at around 280 visits per month. After spending time learning the basics of SEO and updating my website to give search engines better information, I immediately began to see results. By the end of 2018, monthly organic search traffic…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (January 2-3, 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 to answer the question: “What do you think about this investment?” [Article]: “I recently found myself in the fourth scenario. On November 17th, with Bitcoin at $17,500, my brother-in-law texted me the following: ‘Hey. What do you think about buying 1 share of bitcoin?’ He knows my shtick. We’ve had these discussions before. He knows that I avoid these questions at all costs. But I had to give him something. I couldn’t just not respond.” Advice For Giving Advice (Michael Batnick,…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (October 3-4, 2020)
“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. Opportunity amid chaos: “But if 2020 has brought unique problems, it has also set the stage for proactive advisors to really grow, says Jud Mackrill, chief marketing officer at Carson Group, an RIA with $12 billion AUM based in Omaha, Neb. ‘I see a very clear opportunity for advisors to seize this moment,’ he says. ‘This is a time for advisors to mature the marketing side of their business to really tackle the challenge of growth in this season of uncertainty.’…
