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7 Rules for Building a Personal Brand as a Financial Advisor
You don’t need a script or a fancy brand to market yourself well. You need clarity, consistency, and a voice your clients recognize.

Social Media Does Work for Financial Advisors — Just Not the Way You Think
Let’s address the elephant in the room: “Social media doesn’t work for financial advisors.” But the problem isn’t the platform — it’s the playbook.

How Podcasting Can Grow Your COI Network
If you have a podcast—whether it’s primarily guest-based or not—you actually have an incredible opportunity to build, strengthen, and expand your COI relationships by using that podcast strategically.

3 Marketing Priorities Every Financial Advisor Needs to Grow
One of the biggest problems we see with marketing—ourselves included—is that activity can turn into noise. It becomes activity for activity’s sake. You’re busy, you’re posting, you’re doing the “things,” but you feel like it’s gotten detached from the outcomes that matter.

4 Reasons Advisor Lead Magnets Fail
To be successful, a lead magnet has to be genuinely valuable to your target prospect. Here, we need to drill down on a more useful definition of “value”.

5 Ways Top Advisors Find Their Best Content
What might just be the most underrated superpower in marketing?
Knowing what topics, questions, and ideas actually matter to your best clients and prospects.

Building Strategic Referral Partnerships: A Guide for Financial Advisors
How can advisors win more referral business from centers of influence?

The Ultimate Guide to Client Reviews for Financial Advisors
Advisors now have the opportunity to collect and share their clients’ stories. Here’s how you can do it.

Does Your Ideal Prospect Already Have an Advisor?
Want to understand your ideal prospect? Start with this question.

Using Video to Build Multi Generational Advisor Firms
If you’re building a multi-generational advisor firm, video can and should be your best friend.

Getting Outside the Content Bubble
How to create better content that does all look, sound, and feel the same as everyone else.

Why Financial Advisors Need to Tell More Stories
It’s about time that advisors start telling the stories of the life changing work that they do with amazing people. That's the heart of your value proposition. That's the heart of your marketing strategy.

Evergreen Added as New WealthTender Preferred Vendor
Evergreen Financial Marketing, a specialized full-service marketing agency for financial advisors and RIAs, partners with Wealthtender to implement SEC-compliant testimonial marketing for its clients.

What Cyber Monday Told Financial Advisors
This Cyber Monday saw a 42.5% increase in pay later spending for the holidays. Here’s what it means for financial advisors.

How to Shoot Great Video on Your Phone
Have you ever been told “Your phone is all you need to shoot great video?” And then you used your phone and… you felt lied to?

LinkedIn's Algorithm Change: Playing By the New Rules (Again?)
If you’re a financial advisor who relies heavily on LinkedIn as a part of your digital marketing strategy, this one’s for you *cheers*. We’re breaking down the changes to the algorithm as of October 2023.

What You Can Learn from 16 Million Financial Advisor Posts (Hearsay Study)
What do you get when you analyze 16 million social media posts by 100 financial services brands?

Invest Like a Mom
Few people get "investing" like a mom. In honor of Mother's Day, we sat down with a few all-star moms and asked them to tell their stories.

How Financial Advisors Can Stop Wasting Money On Advertising
Today I want to tell you why we don't recommend paid advertising to most financial advisors we work with.

5 Stages Every Marketing Strategy Needs for Financial Advisors
Financial advisors: here are 5 stages every marketing strategy needs to produce consistent results.