MarketYourFinancialPractice.com Media Room: Product Profile
What is MarketYourFinancialPractice.com?
MarketYourFinancialPractice.com is a unique, interactive, web-based tool designed to help financial advisors improve their marketing skills and attract new clients.
MarketYourFinancialPractice.com contains literally hundreds of tools and has been designed to electronically replicate a one-on-one financial advisor marketing coaching program, with access to the content 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
Why was MarketYourFinancialPractice.com created?
MarketYourFinancialPractice.com was created to fill a void in the marketplace. Financial advisors must go through a lot of training to be able to provide investment and financial advice. However, most advisors don't learn how to market their services or how to manage and grow their practice. Many financial advisors lack access to those with expertise in financial services marketing. Some financial advisory practices find it cost-prohibitive to hire marketing consultants. The tools and tips in MarketYourFinancialPractice.com will help financial advisors in every type of practice, from the solo practitioner to a financial advisor in a larger financial advisory practice.
Who created MarketYourFinancialPractice.com?
MarketYourFinancialPractice.com was developed by Professional Services Marketing, Inc. and ActiFi, Inc.
What is Professional Services Marketing, Inc.?
Professional Services Marketing, Inc. (PSM) is a marketing consulting firm that works with professional services firms and individual professionals to develop and implement creative, cost-effective, and results-oriented strategies to grow their business. PSM does this by serving as the outsourced marketing department for its clients. PSM works with clients not quite large enough to support an in-house marketing department, but in need of a higher-level strategic approach to new business development.
PSM helps clients drive revenue into their firms by applying a comprehensive approach to strategic marketing within what we refer to as The Four Pillars of MarketingSM:
- Retain and Grow Relationships with Existing Clients
- Attract New Clients and Develop New Business
- Increase Name Recognition and Awareness
- Create Targeted and Effective Communications
What is ActiFi, Inc.?
ActiFi, Inc. (ActiFi) works with financial practices to alter the economics of delivering world-class advice. By implementing our proven people, process, and technology solutions, advisors run a more effective and profitable practice with results that scale over time. ActiFi solutions focus on seven core objectives:
1. Increase Profit – increase revenue, decrease expense
2. Provide More Value – improve service levels
3. Create More Time – create workflow efficiencies
4. Grow Revenue – sales, marketing, referrals
5. Improve Satisfaction – client communication
6. Offer More Expertise – new products/services
7. Decrease Risk – embed fiduciary best practices
Who was MarketYourFinancialPractice.com designed for?
MarketYourFinancialPractice.com was designed specifically for financial advisors who may not have the resources to hire marketing consultants or marketing coaches. MarketYourFinancialPractice.com provides subscription-based access to a program with a comprehensive array of marketing tools and resources, as well as to personalized advice and encouragement through opportunities to interact with MarketYourFinancialPractice.com marketing coaches through practice-specific Webinars and interactive technology on the Web site.
How does MarketYourFinancialPractice.com help financial advisors?
Using cutting-edge, Web-based technology, MarketYourFinancialPractice.com helps financial advisors accurately assess their skill sets and develop and implement creative, results-oriented marketing plans uniquely tailored to each financial advisor's unique points of difference in the marketplace. Each plan is built around the PSM Four Pillars of MarketingSM:
MarketYourFinancialPractice.com helps financial advisors:
- Think strategically - develop a strategic focus to the growth of their practice
- Build confidence - build their marketing confidence in a variety of situations
- Create focus - develop processes which bring focus and discipline to marketing
- Maximize their time - best utilize their marketing time by pursuing only the highest impact strategies
- Build relationships - develop a system to regularly follow up with A-level contacts
- Market more effectively - access marketing tools that are customized to meet their unique needs
- Measure and evaluate their success - evaluate marketing opportunities on a real-time basis
Our secure Web-based technology allows each subscriber to have his or her own "version" of the site. All assessment results, plans and personal marketing activities are stored in My Marketing Folder. In addition we offer subscribers:
- With the "Remind Me" feature, the ability to have a "Virtual Marketing Coach" remind members of projects they want to pursue by a certain date
- Integrated Webinar technology that will allow us to offer online seminars to financial advisors as part of the subscription fee
- Assessment tools like "Test your Marketing Know How" that will direct members to the substantive modules they need most
- Ask your Marketing Coach feature allowing members to ask questions 24 hours a day, seven days a week and receive a timely response
- A member's discussion board so the "community" of MarketYourFinancialPractice.com members can share information on what's working for them
What is included in a subscription to MarketYourFinancialPractice.com?
A one-year subscription to MarketYourFinancialPractice.com includes full access to all four portals on the website (Assessment, Planning, Implementation, and Measurement), to nearly 100 interactive tools stored in My Marketing Folder and to all of the contents of the 17 implementation modules. There are literally hundreds of tools, tips, checklists, templates, and other helpful documents members can access online or download for their personal marketing efforts.
In addition, the subscription includes interactive features such as Ask a Marketing Question, Join a Practice Group, Web-Based Orientation Sessions, Talk to your Peers Discussion Board, Action Plan Reminder Messages, My Marketing Folder, Your Favorites, Self-scoring Assessments, Print-Friendly Pages, ongoing updates to the MarketYourFinancialPractice.com site, and other features summarized here.
Why should financial advisors subscribe to MarketYourFinancialPractice.com?
Through MarketYourFinancialPractice.com, financial advisors will have access to a wealth of marketing assessment and planning materials, tools, tips, checklists, and implementation tools. All of their information will be securely and confidentially saved on the site in My Marketing Folder.
MarketYourFinancialPractice.com offers a proven process for assessing, planning, implementing, and measuring the success of a financial advisor's marketing activities. Financial advisors without access to specialized marketing services can take advantage of the many best practices contained in MarketYourFinancialPractice.com.