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Financial Advisor Magazine: “Lights! Camera! Advisors Discover The Power Of Video Marketing”

Financial Advisor Magazine’s Ben Mattlin spoke to industry experts, including our Executive Vice President, Digital Pat Allen, about the various ways advisors use video.

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Latest MuckRack survey sheds light on marketing/comms convergence, alignment

Marketers and PR/communications pros share top priorities but diverge on how they measure success.

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Starting February 1, bulk-email basics matter even more

“If you don’t comply, your email reputation may suffer and worse.”

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Vanguard ban on bitcoin ETFs [A communications case study]

With ample time and opportunity to be proactive, the firm chose to be reactive.

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ETF marketing gone wild: The spot bitcoin launch

Are you ready for this? Today ETF marketing takes its place in the spotlight to an extent not seen before in recent history, if ever….

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Our take on what’s ahead for investment industry digital marketers in 2024

Skill development, brand-building, social network hoop-jumping, and fighting the forces conspiring to prevent email delivery all loom large in 2024.

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The investment industry stories we’ll remember from 2023

ChatGPT, the resurgence of fixed income, Taylor Swift, direct indexing, Future Proof and more make up our most memorable stories of the year.

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TikTok, not Google, is now the go-to for basic investment searches

The battle to capture investment term search traffic now extends to multiple fronts as searchers show a growing preference for short-form video explanations.

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Advisors continue to complain about asset manager websites—time to do something about it?

I rejected the report at first. Of course, I did, in solidarity with all who toil on asset manager websites. J.D. Power’s recent alarming research…

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