By Jenny Pearse. Creating content for your digital marketing can feel very much like you are a hamster on the hamster wheel; forever creating new content. With the ever-changing marketing trends of social media, it can seem overwhelming to know how to create content that keeps you connected to your audience. But here is the…
Can your marketing survive without a strategy? The quick answer is NO! Whilst you may have an initial impact, over time your marketing will become lost. As with financial advice, marketing (especially digital marketing) conducted without an underlying strategy means you are expelling energy and commitment with no real gain. Without understanding why, what and…
I’m in love with… what I do! Well communication; marketing really. I’m in love with the power of marketing and how it elevates your voice; for you and your business a voice! I’ve been working in and around marketing in different arenas for over 25 years and seen more fads, trends and “new-ways” of doing…
In an era of big data and a constant stream of information we are being influenced in how we feel, what we do and who we trust each day. If there is a demand for a product or service there are people who are willing to sell it to us. Has the marketplace changed? For…
A version of this article was first published in the AFA Financial Adviser Magazine. I’ve published many articles highlighting all the important and imperative reasons why you should consider investing in a digital marketing strategy for your financial advice business. There is no perfect way or formula to get started, particularly when using social media…
Without a doubt 2018 has been a year of distractions. For those that work within financial services, it’s not been a jolly year. No matter how well prepared your business is for change it’s been challenging. We’ve seen never-ending headlines on the Royal Commission. As well as the changing landscape on legislation, regulation and compliance….
I love anything that has a visual element to it when posting content on social media but have you noticed in recent times that there has been a trend towards posting image based content for the sake of posting content. Now whilst there is no argument that images are an incredible way to draw your…
As the sun sets on June and we head in to the second half of the year this is a really great time to pause, reassess, reset and re-energise your (digital) marketing strategies. So here are some things you should be asking yourself: What’s working? What’s not working so well? Where can you improve? Are…
There is much to be said around the use of marketing in business but when it comes to digital marketing there is a two speed economy. One where advice practices happily provide a flow of impersonal communications and little else. The second where they dive into what some would consider the utopia of social engagement,…
I caught up with Adviser of the Year Finalist, Glen James, recently to chat about the how he is incorporating digital marketing in his business and with his personal brand. Glen’s financial advice business is based on the Central Coast of New South Wales and with a team that operate like a well-oiled machine it…