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Latest Blog Research Has Important Implications for Advisors

Technorati Media is a leading authority on digital influence and social media with a reach of over 130 million unique monthly visitors. Recently, Technorati Media published their 2013 Digital Influence Report. The findings were regarding the power of blogging were significant for business professionals, including financial advisors.

If you’re a financial advisor and you’re not blogging, you may want to consider launching one. Blogging is the most superior form of digital marketing for building influence. Influence leads to growth in traffic, connections, relationships, and sales. Simply put, building influence through blogging builds business.

The Majority of Online Influencers are Bloggers

Let’s look at another reason as to why it’s important for financial advisors to blog. According to the Technorati Digital Influence Report, 86% of influencers blog. You may think of yourself as being influential, but if you’re not blogging in the digital age, you’re likely not going to be influencing anyone online.

It doesn’t matter how active you are on social networks if you’re not connecting people to something…like your unique, editorial content.

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Why Financial Advisors Should Become Self-Publishers

Self-publishing through blogging is a great way for financial advisors to build online authority, credibility, and influence. In fact, it’s perhaps the only way to realize sustainable success in digital marketing (and there’s very little competition.)

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10 Reasons Why WordPress is the Best Platform for Your Business

7 Reasons Why Financial Advisors Should Use WordPress

WordPress is a powerful and easy-to-use content management system for financial advisors and financial firms to publish their thought leadership insights and get found by their target markets. In this post I’ll cover 7 reasons why WordPress is indeed your best option.

First, if you encounter a web design or development company that relies on a proprietary (closed) website platform or system, that is the exact point you should turn and walk away. When it comes to building a scalable and functional online content management system that will benefit your bottom line, nothing beats the open source, flexible, and powerful WordPress platform.

Building your professional content management system on WordPress will provide you with an immediate advantage over competitors who use proprietary content management systems.

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How to Create Irresistible Content for Your Ideal Customers

How to Create Irresistible Content for Your Ideal Clients

Do you write with a belief that your words have the potential to convert leads into clients? And more importantly, do you write with the deliberate intent of doing exactly that? The purpose with which you write your blog posts can make all the difference to your blog’s potential for success.

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10 Tips to Boost Traffic to Your Blog

10 Tips to Boost Traffic to Your Blog

If you are thinking about launching a blog, or if you’ve been blogging for awhile, understanding how to effectively promote your blog can be very important to your success.

Blogs are digital assets that acquire value over time. If your goal is to attract and cultivate leads from your target markets with your blog, you must first focus on growing your visibility; or attracting blog traffic.

If you’re not blogging and you are relying on a static website to grow your online visibility, you are missing a tremendous opportunity to grow your business over time.

If you want your blog to be successful and sustainable for the long run, you will need to focus on two key principles:

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The 4 Image Sourcing Resources You Need for Your Blog

The 4 Image Sourcing Resources You Need for Your Blog

Writing blog posts is one thing – bringing them to life with relevant and interesting images is something else altogether.

If you are new to the blogging world (or even if you are not), trying to find images for your blog posts can be a painful process. One easy (but expensive option) is to use a stock image website such as iStock Photo. But if you knew that there were millions of completely free images within your grasp, why would you ever choose to do so?

With that in mind, today I want to introduce you to the four completely free services I use to find images for blog posts.

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5 Ways Blogging Can Amplify Your Business

Ultimately, blogging is all about building online influence. Influence is the new marketing, and there is no better tool than a professional blog to showcase your insights, expertise, passions, and personality. Blogging is how you build a trusted network of followers in the age of social media. Recently I was a featured guest speaker on [...]

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