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Becoming a local thought leader with educational workshops
The educational workshop can be an effective marketing practice and a way to provide education to your local community, helping to grow your business by creating a loyal client base that views you as a leader in financial planning.
Retirement
To claim or not to claim? The Social Security question
Determining a Social Security strategy can be one of the most complicated processes that people across the U.S. face as they reach retirement. Learn the ins and outs of claiming Social Security and the role you can play in the process as a financial advisor.
Retirement
Health savings accounts: A strategic retirement tool?
With the cost of healthcare steadily rising across America, planning for this expense has become a focal point in many financial plans. Learn how investors and their advisors can turn to health savings accounts, and their tax benefits to address the specific cost in retirement.
Client Experience
Getting your Clients to See Green with Eco-Friendly Events
Living a green life, or minimizing lifestyle impact on the environment, is becoming increasingly important to many people. Green events might be special draw for clients and their friends who value sustainability.
Client Experience
Establish your role as a trusted resource, educate your clients in unique ways
Entice guests with the promise of fun and then perhaps you'll get to sprinkle a little knowledge on the audience throughout the event. There are times, however, when clients need information and guidance that is not directly within the scope of your expertise.
Client Experience
Build community and get more referrals
Tired of wasting time and other resources on cold leads? If you have raving client base, no matter the size, you are sitting on a gold mine. You don't even have to call clients up to ask for referrals.
Client Experience
Don't be a bore. Lose the tired seminars
Client-focused events should be a part of every financial advisor's business plan. You'll want to forego the after work retirement seminars, however. Consumers of the digital economy era are different in many ways.
Client Experience
How to Host Extraordinary Client Experiences
While the retirement seminar may have served you well in the past, they may not help you stand out in the future. To attract, retain and grow your client base you’ll need events that are designed around your clients’ passions.
Client Experience
Introducing events designed to create amazing outcomes
FlexShares wants to help financial advisors create amazing experiences to achieve better outcomes. This is the first in a series of articles as well as a whitepaper, which can be used as a blueprint for executing your event planning strategy. Log-in and download the whitepaper today and stay tuned for more event marketing tips.
Retirement
What volatility means for retirement plan participants
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Market volatility doesn’t have to interfere with retirement outcomes. Here are three ways volatility can impact plan participants and three ways to manage it.
Retirement
Should you save or spend your tax refund?
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This tax season, consider putting your refund toward a 529 plan.
Retirement
next: Millennial magnet - Attract and retain the largest generation in the U.S. workforce
In our second issue of next, we discuss how some of the factors may affect your role as a fiduciary in building effective retirement plans, including the effect changing interest rates may have on target date funds.