Posts by Jonathan Musgrave
What Financial Advisors Need to Know about Apple i OS14 and Facebook Ads
It seems that about once per year the marketing community is sent into panic with the announcement of a new app feature or ad change. 2021 is no different, but instead of Facebook changing things, this time it’s Apple – the company that makes more mobile devices than anyone else on the planet. The tendency…
Read MoreAn Advisor’s Guide to the Best Webinar Equipment
Today, millions of Americans are scrambling to work and communicate virtually. Marketing is no exception, and we’ve launched brand-new live and on-demand webinar marketing services to help you connect with people stuck in their homes but in need of help. Whether you’re shooting video for your website, broadcasting a webinar, hosting client meetings virtually or…
Read MoreThe 2020 Election & Facebook Marketing
Facebook was at the center of conversations related to the elections in 2016 when the Trump campaign used the Facebook ad platform with unprecedented success. Today, as we approach the 2020 elections, Financial Advisors (and everyone using digital advertising) are wondering what the impact might be on their advertising campaigns on Facebook and across the…
Read MoreLifecycle Marketing
Do you know the #1 reason people choose you to be their financial advisor after their seminar is? Is it how sharp you dressed? How polished your presentation was? How nice the room was that you met them in? Nope – The #1 reasons people make the decision to choose a new financial advisor is…
Read MoreTransparency in Digital Marketing
We’ve all heard people refer to our point in time as “the information age.” It’s true, our generation has unprecedented access to information. Researchers estimate that between television, radio, the internet, email and social media the average person digests the equivalent of 174 newspapers worth of information EVERY DAY (source). Even Siri and Alexa sit…
Read MoreCreating Resonance: The Marketing Triangle (with a twist)
The word resonance evokes a vivid picture in my mind. A few years ago, I was backpacking in the Gore Range of the Colorado Rockies when my brother and I happened upon a glacier lake surrounded by steep jagged cliffs. We quickly unpacked our fly rods and started casting in hopes to land some brook…
Read MoreFacebook Changes: How will you be impacted?
Earlier this year, Facebook was confronted about data privacy issues in an episode many are calling “The Cambridge Analytica Scandal” (my unsolicited opinion). In the weeks that followed, Facebook aggressively made moves with the intent of bolstering user’s confidence in the platform. Unsurprisingly, many of these changes directly impacted their advertising platform. After an initial…
Read More6 Reasons Your Seminar Venue Matters (a lot!)
Whether you’re just getting to know Steep or have worked with us for a long time, you know by now that we’re BIG proponents of using neutral venues for the workshops we promote. Ever wonder why? In this post, I’ll be diving deep into 6 reasons I believe neutral, educational venues are a big part…
Read More3 Reasons Specificity Drives Conversions in Digital Marketing
We’ve all heard the cliché of taking a “shotgun” approach to marketing: rather than talking specifically about a single topic, we throw out a variety of subjects hoping that one of them will resonate with our audience. While there’s some merit to the shotgun approach in certain circumstances, specificity can massively improve response rates with…
Read MoreThe “Secret” to High Converting Seminars
If you haven’t noticed from our high-altitude branding yet, we’re proud to be a Colorado company. It’s crazy to look west from the Denver area and see the vast array of mountains spanning the front range and think that we’re lucky enough to call this place home. On a clear day (and we have more…
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