In this webinar, Chief Evangelist of FMG, Samantha Russell and Chief Growth Officer of Holistiplan, Chris Field, to share how financial advisors are successfully incorporating tax planning into their practices, either through partnerships with CPAs or by developing the expertise in-house.
They discussed:
- How to market and showcase your tax planning capabilities on your website and in your marketing materials
- Real-world examples of advisors who have mastered the art of effective client communication and marketing when it comes to tax planning
- How to easily integrate tax planning into your client and prospect conversations
3. Chris Field
Chief Growth Officer, Holistiplan
Connect with Me!
/christophercfield
chris@holistiplan.com
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4. 🛑 STOP asking:
"What marketing tactic will work?"
🚦START asking:
"What makes my business MARKETABLE in
the first place?"
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➡️ Huge gap between client expectations
and services rendered
💡 Takeaways:
1️⃣ People want 1 Provider/Point of
Contact for everything.
2️⃣ So much marketing opportunity for
firms who offer Tax
Source: https://advisorpedia.com/research/expectations-
investors-and-advisors-have-differ/
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9. Over 60% of Investors believe that
most financial advisors make the
same promises, making it hard
to tell the difference between them
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- BNY | Pershing “Advisor Value Propositions” Report
10. How Do You Best
Communicate This In Your
Marketing?
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11. Before Sending
Leads To Your Site,
Ask:
Does My Website
Pass The 5 Second
Test?
+ Source: https://tenonfinancial.com/
12. Show your website, count to 5, then ask:
● What was the page about?
● What do you remember seeing?
● Who would benefit from this service?
● What action to take next?
You Have 5 Seconds To Make
a First Impression
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13. No one reads a website like a book. Use
Images, icons and charts to communicate
quickly
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29. Send THREE emails for optimal performance. Make
sure clients know they can share with friends!
● 1 week before
● 1 day before
● 1 hour before
What’s the Best Way To Get Registrants?
Source: https://danielwaas.com/how-to-increase-webinar-attendance-rates/
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Drip Email Marketing
FIRST:
● Collect prospect emails on your site
THEN:
● Email them over time valuable,
educational, TIMELY content that is
HELPFUL
● Gets even more effective if you have a
niche
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36. ● Mobile App to push out breaking news
● FINRA - reviewed content
● Direct Integration with LPL for easy compliance
● New Do It For Me Program
Contact Us: Marketing@fmgsuite.com
Overwhelmed?
Need Help? We Get it!
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How do we as an industry remedy this?
🚨👉 Content Marketing 👈🚨
When someone watches your videos, reads your words, and hears you explain things....it immediately helps put them at ease. It makes them feel like they "know" you.
And psychology tells us that the more we feel like we know someone, the more likely we are to trust them.
Content Marketing removes "fear of the unknown" and builds trust.
What other tactic can work so well (and at scale!) in this industry?
Those with $500K or more are twice as likely to list tax guidance as the number 1 - at 40%!
October, 2021 example from Sequoia Finacnial - on the Biden Build Back Better Plan
Alright, let’s start with what the five-second test is.
Five second tests are a method of user research that help you measure what information users take away and what impression they get within the first five seconds of viewing a design. In this case, that design is your website.
You may ask, why just five seconds? It’s long enough for a good design to communicate your primary message. Right now, there’s a growing trend for website visitors to open many sites at once, so attention to your page is reduced, which makes your design and messaging critical to getting your point across quickly.
These tests help you determine if your website visitors' first impressions of your pages are on point. So just to reiterate that point, these tests apply to only the first impressions a visitor gets.
These first impressions include answering the questions you see on the slide (read slide), ending with probably the most critical question your page can answer: what action can a visitor take next?
Bob Bob Ricard sells more champagne than any UK restaurant.
How do we as an industry remedy this?
🚨👉 Content Marketing 👈🚨
When someone watches your videos, reads your words, and hears you explain things....it immediately helps put them at ease. It makes them feel like they "know" you.
And psychology tells us that the more we feel like we know someone, the more likely we are to trust them.
Content Marketing removes "fear of the unknown" and builds trust.
What other tactic can work so well (and at scale!) in this industry?
October, 2021 example from Sequoia Finacnial - on the Biden Build Back Better Plan
73% of investors like to receive updates from their advisor via email,
+ up from 66% in the 2019 survey