by Brad Friedman | Social Media
When I meet with Financial Advisors to discuss their online strategy and use of social media the conversation nearly always turns to the Advisor's skepticism about generating business from social media. Everyone is also concerned about compliance issues, and rightly so. But, with a solid strategy in place, you can handle compliance issues. It's those intangible concerns that get us off track.
Since this happens so often, I've done some research and put together a list of social media statistics Financial Advisors should know. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | General Business Advice, Social Media
This is a guest post writtent by Brent Carnduff.
Millennials, the 80 million 13-31 year old Americans that grew up immersed in technology and who are about to become the recipients of the greatest transfer of wealth in history, are as a group, more conservative and less trusting of the financial advisor than previous generations, according to research completed earlier this year by Accenture. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | General Business Advice, Social Media
It's time once again for us to talk about the importance of building a strong community of brand advocates. Whether you are running a law firm, a financial services firm or a business, your brand is everything. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media
The Friedman Group, LLC is a HootSuite Certified Pro
Many business owners spend time every day researching and reading interesting articles and websites that they would like to share to their social media accounts and with their followers. While you can copy and paste URLs into status update windows to compose posts, that's a manual and time-consuming process and a poor ploy when you want to share several articles in a row. (more…)
by Katie Komnenich | Social Media |
As someone who just recently started using Google+, I’ve had to toy around with it a little bit to realize what makes it so much bigger and better than the other social media sites out there. At first it seems much too close to Facebook, just as I’ve become more familiar with it I’ve grown to really enjoy using the site. (more…)
When I meet with Financial Advisors to discuss their online strategy and use of social media the conversation nearly always turns to the Advisor's skepticism about generating business from social media. Everyone is also concerned about compliance issues, and rightly so. But, with a solid strategy in place, you can handle compliance issues. It's those intangible concerns that get us off track. 
It's time once 
As someone who just recently started using Google+, I’ve had to toy around with it a little bit to realize what makes it so much bigger and better than the other social media sites out there. At first it seems much too close to Facebook, just as I’ve become more familiar with it I’ve grown to really enjoy using the site. 
