Congratulations! Your thought-leadership content strategy made it to the middle of the year. Here are some mid-year ‘check-in’ tactics you can do to make sure your strategy finishes the year strong. Summer is the perfect time to pour yourself a fruity frozen drink and...
Creating thought-leadership content has grown to become a major part of financial services firms’ marketing efforts—and for good reason. But beyond creating content and embarking on basic efforts to promote and distribute it, marketing leaders in the industry should...
If you watch Jimmy Kimmel Live or any other late-night talk show for a week, you are sure to see a steady stream of actors showing clips from their latest movie and bands performing songs from their album that just dropped. Clearly these actors and bands understand...
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” While we wait for philosophers to answer that question, I think it’s time to introduce a new mental conundrum: “If a white paper gets posted only to the Resources page of a company’s...
The Wall Street Journal reported that financial advisors are increasingly using newsletters as a primary cog in their marketing efforts. “When it comes to staying in touch with clients, many financial advisors swear by the simple, age-old dictum: publish or perish,”...
Barry Schwartz gets it. The Chicago-based mortgage broker knows that he needs to make his weekly e-newsletter stand out in crowded inboxes. By adding 1980s-theme pop culture trivia and steady doses of self-deprecating humor, Barry’s newsletter, “Hey! Mortgage Fans!,”...
