January, 2022

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12 Top-Performing Website Pages for Financial Advisors (Video)

Indigo Marketing Agency

Join me in this quick video where I discuss 8 of the 12 top pages: Does your company have top-performing website pages? What makes a good financial advisor website? We’ve worked with thousands of advisors across the country. And after analyzing data for our 30 top-performing websites, we discovered each advisor had 12 web pages in common. Today, we’ll go over each of those web pages, why they’re so important for conversion rates, and show you A+ examples of each. 1.

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How to Choose if Offered Restricted Stock Units or Non Qualified Stock Options

Zajac Group

Some employers may allow you to choose how you receive your equity compensation. They may allow you to receive it all in non-qualified stock options (NQSOs) or all in restricted stock units (RSUs) or they may allow you to receive some combination of the two. If your employer offers you a choice between RSUs and NQSOs , you may wonder which option is the best.

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Animal Spirits: Listener Mailbag

The Irrelevant Investor

Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by RocketDollar On today’s show we discuss: If you're picking stocks, should you use a tax-sheltered account? How guaranteed income impacts your risk tolerance Levered ETFs for young investors (don't), and much more Listen here: Contact us at animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, recommendations, or questions.

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9 Ways Financial Advisors can Use LinkedIn to Grow Clients

BlueMind

Category: Business Growth. Once you have stepped into the field as a financial advisor, the biggest challenge you will come to face as a new player is building your client list from scratch. But you can make that challenge less of a concern if you know the right sources from where you can drive business, such as LinkedIn. Although often assumed to only be a platform for job search or posting, LinkedIn can prove to be a significant asset in helping you find new clientele.

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2025 Industry Index: How Top Advisors Are Scaling Smarter (and Faster) This Year

Where are top advisors focusing in 2025? AcquireUp’s 2025 Industry Index reveals it all. Based on insights from 200+ financial professionals nationwide, discover why 74% say seminars and referrals deliver the best ROI, how automation is helping advisors scale faster, and why only 8% are tapping into niche marketing (a major growth opportunity!). Whether you're refining your client acquisition strategy or scaling your practice, this report gives you the real-world data, benchmarks, and action ste

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Savings Bonds: Are They Worth Investing In?

Your Richest Life

For many people looking to maximize their savings, there has been a big interest recently in savings bonds. There’s a good reason for that interest: the Series I savings bonds are currently sitting at a 7 percent earnings interest rate. That’s noteworthy, because most of the time, Series I savings bonds stick closer to their guaranteed interest rate of 3.56 percent.

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Best Content Marketing Examples for Financial Advisors

Advisor Websites

Getting noticed when marketing your services online can be a challenge for any industry, including the financial sector. With over 218,000 personal financial advisors in the U.S. and more than 250,000 in Canada it's easy to get lost in the shuffle, especially if you don't have a content marketing strategy in place. Quite literally, there are thousands of financial advisors just like you who are vying for that high ranking on Google in a world where location and proximity no longer matter.

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Will Inflation Hurt Stock Returns? Not Necessarily.

ClearMoney

The following is provided by Dimensional Fund Advisors.

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Bigger, Faster, Stronger

The Irrelevant Investor

Everything moves faster these days. On November 1st, 90 days ago, Wordle had 90 users. Today, millions of people are playing the game, which will soon be owned by The New York Times. The electric scooter company Bird shared an incredible chart in an investor presentation back in November. Look how quickly it's been able to scale up revenue since the company started in 2017, compared to some other storied growth names.

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Reader Case Study: Is it Okay to Subsidize my Spendypants Adult Children?

Mr. Money Mustache

It has been a good while since we’ve done a reader case study here on MMM, but that hasn’t stopped them from arriving in my inbox. And since 2022 is becoming a year of interesting financial changes, it’s time to spark things up again, go back to our roots, and start covering some of the many subjects that are cropping up in this latest incarnation of our economic world.

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New Hampshire increases BPT filing threshold amount to $92,000

Steve Feinberg

Beginning with tax periods that end on or after December 31, 2022, business taxpayers with gross sales of $92,000 or less are NOT required to file a Business Profits Tax return. Previously, this was $50,000. This is an obvious planning opportunity for small businesses that will no longer have to pay to prepare a New Hampshire return, since it’s no longer required.

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Data Talks, CFOs Listen: Why Analytics Are Key To Better Spend Management

Speaker: Claire Grosjean, Global Finance & Operations Executive

Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.

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How to Play Stock Market: Risk-Free

The Richer Geek

I'm very happy to have Myles Gage with us today. He's the co-founder, Chief Marketing Officer of Rapunzl Investments. It is a mobile application that allows individuals to simulate stock portfolios for you utilizing real-time market data. Myles has been an advocate for encouraging young people to invest in the stock market given his exposure to learning about it in elementary school where he won stock trading competitions and even got to hold Warren Buffet's wallet once!

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17 Tax Benefits of Owning a Small Business

MazumaBusinessAccounting

There are many obvious perks that come with owning your own business, including setting your own schedule, being your own boss, and having control over your career. But there are also many tax benefits business owners can take advantage of to maximize their profits. Here’s a quick guide that covers important tax deductions for your business. What Will a Deduction Save Me?

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Not for profit fundraising

Accounting for Good

The post Not for profit fundraising first appeared on ACCOUNTING FOR GOOD.

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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles The market’s tolerance for high growth, high valuation perennial money losers appears to have run out. (By Samantha McLemore) In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 25% of NASDAQ’s total value. (By Marc Rubinstein) Sometimes the best misdirection is not to use any (By Bob Seawright) Resilience is an underrated superpower and it is something we can develop.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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Stock Market Correction: Finally!

Dear Mr. Market

Dear Mr. Market: Finally. It’s here… a bonafide stock market correction. What’s also almost here is Groundhog Day…but more on that in a minute. For those of us with short memories we’ll have to do the necessary preamble and small talk refresher on what this is. For those of you who remember what you did (or were supposed to do/not do) during the last correction, here we go again.

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How to Communicate With Your Clients About Market Volatility (Free Template)

Indigo Marketing Agency

It’s been a wild ride on Wall Street this week! Monday’s market dip almost put the S&P 500 down over 10%. Investors are worried about their portfolios and their purchasing power. But as a financial advisor, how should you communicate with your clients about market volatility? And can you use the events to find opportunities to get new clients?

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Financial Advisors Using Instagram – How to Make It Work for You

Prosperity Coaching

Instagram can work for financial advisors! I’ve been a Coach for financial advisors since 2004 and I’ve seen many changes in ways to market an advisory firm. You may have this image in your head of Instagram as a photo-sharing platform that the “kids these days” are into; however, it’s […]. The post Financial Advisors Using Instagram – How to Make It Work for You appeared first on The Prosperous Advisor Coaching Blog.

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[NEWS] Advisor Websites Releases Inaugural State of the Industry Report

Advisor Websites

Advisor Websites’ Inaugural State of the Industry Report Analyzes Successful Digital Marketing Strategies for Financial Advisors. Survey of nearly 500 advisors reveals that personalization, automation. and tailored content drive digital marketing engagement.

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How to Avoid Pitfalls In Automation: Keep Humans In the Loop

Speaker: Erroll Amacker

Automation is transforming finance but without strong financial oversight it can introduce more risk than reward. From missed discrepancies to strained vendor relationships, accounts payable automation needs a human touch to deliver lasting value. This session is your playbook to get automation right. We’ll explore how to balance speed with control, boost decision-making through human-machine collaboration, and unlock ROI with fewer errors, stronger fraud prevention, and smoother operations.

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How skills of the Accounting For Good team can help your NFP

Accounting for Good

The post How skills of the Accounting For Good team can help your NFP first appeared on ACCOUNTING FOR GOOD.

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Some Thoughts on Robinhood

The Irrelevant Investor

Robinhood is going to open up down 88%* from its all-time highs. This is equivalent to what the Dow lost during The Great Depression. That happened in just under three years. Robinhood did it in six months. What a disaster. On Robinhood's conference call yesterday, the CFO said: Over time, I'd like to see us having a working capital structure, a capital structure that is more balanced between debt and equity.

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How to Coordinate a Donor Advised Fund and Your Equity Compensation

Zajac Group

If you have equity compensation and are in an abnormally high-income tax year, it often makes sense to consider how you may be able to offset that pending tax liability. One way to mitigate the tax bill might be to give to charity. Giving to charity in a high-income tax year makes sense for several reasons. First and foremost, the high-income tax year might be the result of cashing out stock, giving you the cash flow necessary to make such a contribution.

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36 Top Influencers for Financial Advisors in 2022

Indigo Marketing Agency

It’s no secret that the financial landscape is changing rapidly. To stay ahead of the curve, financial advisors must identify and align themselves with the top influencers in the field. Here are 36 financial advisor influencers who will likely have a big impact on the industry in 2022. 1. Bill Cates If you need help figuring out how to identify the best niche for your firm, Bill Cates is your guy.

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Book of Secrets on the Month-End Close

Based off SkyStem's popular e-Book, the book of secrets to the month-end close will be revealed in this one-hour webinar. Learn leading practices when it comes to building a strong and sustainable month-end close that has room to grow and evolve. Learn about the power of precise estimates, why reconciliations are critical to closing the books, how and when to automate, and how the chart of accounts play into your close process.

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Crypto exchange Gemini pushes into wealth management with acquisition of BITRIA

Gemini BITRIA

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Top 10 Financial Services Website Designs of 2022

Advisor Websites

The process of creating a great financial services website design is more than making it aesthetically pleasing; it requires the use of strategic language (your website copy) as well as content that will attract and engage your ideal client. In order to grow your business and acquire new clients , you need a website designed with your target audience top of mind.

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Creating a New, Modern and More Resilient Portfolio

The Richer Geek

Joining us today is Mike Silvestrini, co-founder and managing partner of Energea, a renewable project developer and retail investment platform that is focused on emerging and frontier markets. Mike took his FIRST company, Greenskies Renewable Energy, to a nearly half-billion-dollar valuation before selling and is now focused on connecting investors to renewable energy projects and developing renewable energy around the world.

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It Really is More Volatile

The Irrelevant Investor

We've been talking a lot on the podcast about market volatility. A listener emailed us with an interesting take: "I am inclined to think that we all went through quite a volatile period in our personal lives over the last few years and are now projecting that onto our views of the market without any concrete evidence." If you're not watching the market between the hours of 9:30-4, it might not seem like the market is acting all that unusual.

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Stop Falling Short When It Matters Most—The Elite Advisor’s Playbook to Success

Like being inches from the end zone, many advisors are frustratingly close to their next level of success. You work hard. You put in the hours. But if your closing rate is stuck or your pipeline feels like a revolving door… something has to change. Most advisors are just one small shift away from dramatically increasing their revenue. The difference?

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: December 2021

Brown Advisory

Global Leaders Investment Letter: December 2021. jharrison. Wed, 01/12/2022 - 04:28. Just want the PDF? Download it here >. What Drives Intrinsic Motivation. In his book, Drive 1 , Daniel Pink delves into what intrinsically motivates us to complete and master a task for no visible reward. Intrinsic motivation appears to emanate from a number of fundamental drivers which are important both individually and within a team.

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Inflation – Should We Be Worried?

Mr. Money Mustache

I’ve been writing about money for almost eleven years now, and in that time the world has become an immensely richer place. Here in the US, our economy has grown by about 25% even after inflation, world economic output has grown even faster, and the number of people living in extreme poverty has been cut roughly in half. US Real Economic Growth over the Mustachian Era.

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Gemini Now a ‘One-stop Shop For Advisors’ After BITRIA Buy

Gemini BITRIA

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Is Risk Listing a Reliable Risk Management Practice?

Risk Management Guru

Introduction. Risk management can be defined as the “process which aims to help organizations understand, evaluate and take action on all their risks with a view to increasing the probability of success and reducing the likelihood of failure” (Hopkin, 2010, p. 37). This is the definition made by the Institute of Risk Management (IRM), which also published ‘A Risk Management Standard’ (IRM, 2002), a guide that lays out a framework for managing risks.

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The Future Of Finance: How To Manage Spend The Right Way

Speaker: Aaron Berson

Managing spend is more than a cost cutting exercise – it's a pathway to smarter decisions that unlock efficiency and drive growth. By understanding and refining the spending process, financial leaders can empower their organizations to achieve more with less. Explore the art of balancing financial control with operational growth. From uncovering hidden inefficiencies to designing workflows that scale your business, we’ll share strategies to align your organization’s spending with its strategic g