1. Two Minute Video Of Social Media Content Stream For Financial Advisors
(Matching tags: client communications,Social Media)

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2. It Takes More Than An Occasional Tweet To Translate Social Media Involvement To Your Bottom Line
(Matching tags: Advisor businesses,marketing,Social Media)

Advisors incorporating social media into their marketing are overlooking a vital link to success. The failure to translate social media involvement to the bottom line of a business is not an uncommon challenge. ...

3. Be More Social By Using One Of These Link-Shortening Add-Ons For Firefox And Internet Explorer
(Matching tags: marketing,client communications,Social Media)

For advisors, successful social networking requires engaging your prospects and clients with targeted content about topics that implicitly communicates your expertise and value proposition. Generating ...

4. Erado, An Advisor Products Compliance Partner, Named To Gartner’s “Cool Vendor” List
(Matching tags: technology,security,RIA compliance,RIAs,privacy; security,compliance,Social Media)

... by Gartner, the RIA segment of the financial services industry just does not matter much.   So when Craig Brauff, founder and CEO of Erado Message Control Solutions, an email and social media ...

5. If You Are Not Bumping Into People Who Want To Help You Because You Are Doing Good Work, Then You Need To Fix That Part Of Your Life
(Matching tags: business strategy,client acquisition,integrity,honesty,communication,elevator speech,leadership,value proposition,enterprise value,marketing,prospecting,referrals,business planning,Social Media)

  Humility has always prevented me from buying into the notion of American exceptionalism, but change wrought by the Internet is making me rethink.   The Internet now makes it easy for ...

6. Have You Seen Zite? It's A Great Content Personalization App For iPad and Android
(Matching tags: mac,iPad,apple,android,iPhone,phones,Tablets,Social Media)

Zeitgeist is "the spirit of the times," says Wikipedia. It's the mood of an era. Appropos of the concept, there’s an app for that. It's called Zite and it’s great.

7. Please Join Advisor4Advisors
(Matching tags: Offbeat,Social Media,practice management)

If you are not paying A4A’s $60 a year fee, please do. I’ve been slowly going about the droll business of getting sponsors. This is not how I want to spend my time. But we do need your ...

8. Success With Social Media Means Creating Value For Your Business
(Matching tags: Advisor businesses,Client advisory board,management,marketing,client communications,Social Media)

  Social media is not just a technological tool. It’s a complete game changer. It has to have purpose. Success with social media depends upon your ability to rally people around that purpose. ...

9. Tweet Watching Can Inspire A Multi-Strategy Thought Process
(Matching tags: marketing,mutual funds,Social Media)

  Keeping up with what’s happening on Twitter can clue you in to what your clients are thinking  and help you learn to tweet effectively. It can help you take a first step into social ...

10. Cottage Industry Springs Up Around Compliance In Use Of Social Media
(Matching tags: marketing,compliance,advisor industry people,Social Media)

  The entrance of social media outlets like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook have posed a challenge to industry firms. How can they take advantage of these huge new marketing and community building ...

11. New Facebook Changes Will Happen Automatically
(Matching tags: marketing,Social Media)

Facebook will convert all business pages to its new Timeline format on March 30. Advisors have not yet converted to the Timeline format should do so now.

12. The Big Referral Myth: How The Internet Has Changed The Way Advisors Get Business
(Matching tags: Advisor businesses,Anatomy of the Referral,differentiation,enterprise value,marketing,referrals,niches,Social Media)

Referrals from clients may no longer be the primary way people find you. Google search is increasingly the way advisors are connecting with clients. This presents an opportunity but also poses a threat. ...

13. Follow Other Advisors' Twitter Feeds To Develop Your Own Style
(Matching tags: Advisor businesses,marketing,client communications,Social Media)

If you’re having a tough time understanding how to use Twitter effectively, here’s a great shortcut. Look at some examples. Here are 15 advisors who have gotten the Twitter thing down. You ...

14. An Easy Way For Advisors To Get Looped In To Twitter
(Matching tags: Social Media,client communications,marketing)

For those who have been reluctant to get in on social media, here’s an easy route. Advisor Josh Brown has recommended 20 Twitter feeds for financial advisors to follow. One of the most daunting ...

15. "Alert: Stop Using Social Media -- Immediately," Declares Advisor Marketing Consultant; Should You Allow The Threat Of Flaming Stop You From Using Social Networks?
(Matching tags: integrity,honesty,client satisfaction,marketing,prospecting,advisor industry people,Social Media)

“Alert: Stop Using Social Media — Immediately,” declared the subject line of a mass email I received today from Elmer Rich III, a business development consultant to retirement advisors ...

16. iPad Offers A Great Way For Private Wealth Advisors To Make Marketing Videos And Save About $3,000 By Eliminating Need For Touch Screen Monitor
(Matching tags: client communications,differentiation,marketing,niche management,prospecting,Social Media,target marketing,videos)

The new iPad, when combined with the new Apple TV solution, provides a great way for investment advisors to make their own marketing videos.   I spent about 10 hours in recent months researching ...

17. Remote Offices Seen Driving Advisor Networks' Social Media Needs, And There's A Productivity Twist
(Matching tags: mobile apps,tablet,Social Media)

Advisory firms with multiple physical locations are pointing to their need to standardize as a reason to adopt third-party social networking technology. There may be unexpected benefits to think about ...

18. Authenticity Is Key To Success For Advisors Using Social Media, Giving Fiduciaries A Natural Edge
(Matching tags: differentiation,marketing,niche management,client communications,fiduciaries,Social Media)

The din from social media experts telling advisors how to tweet, blog, and create other content is at high pitch. The one thing I would add is a call for authenticity. People will read if you are ...

19. Too Much Information? Advisors Urged To Use Social Media Like Anyone Else
(Matching tags: Social Media)

Many professionals naturally keep their private lives out of their business-oriented social media profiles. That's not quite the right approach, says one advisor who's won clients on LinkedIn in particular. ...

20. Actiance Announces Socialite Engage to Help Financial Advisors Strengthen Client Relationships and Drive New Business Through Social Media
(Matching tags: broker-dealers,marketing,compliance,client communications,Social Media)

Actiance, a social media compliance company today announced release of its Socialite Engage app for financial advisors. Hype psrings from the page of its press release.  ...