While content marketing for wealth advisors is not new news, it is taking over as a strategy to grow and build lasting relationships with families. With content marketing generating three times as many leads and costing 62% less than traditional marketing, financial advisors across the country are now recognizing the power of content. This has led to a flood of publishing, so it’s critical to not only publish, but publish well. Effective content is timely, relevant and interesting to your audience…and a great place to start is to ask: “What are my clients asking me about?”

Take a look at these top 7 tips to produce content to differentiate yourself.

7 Steps for Effective Content Marketing For Advisors

STEP 1: IDENTIFY GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

The first step for any content marketing strategy is identifying your goals and objectives. It is extremely difficult to successfully execute a plan without understanding why you are taking action and what goals you hope to accomplish. Do you want your content to build awareness? Generate prospects? Boost search engine rankings? Without defining your goals, it’s impossible to measure your progress and adjust as needed.

STEP 2: DEFINE AND UNDERSTAND YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE

No matter your specific goals and objectives, to achieve them you must define and understand your target audience. Consider the type of clients and prospects you wish to replicate, and conduct research to figure out what is most important to them. Which topics can you bring a new perspective to? What questions are people asking that you can answer? Answer these questions to determine what type of content you need to create in order to resonate with the type of prospects you wish to attract.

STEP 3: PLAN YOUR CONTENT

After you have figured out your goals, objectives and target audience, you need to plan your content. Create a content calendar at least once every quarter and make sure that is complete with topics and dates. Try to balance and mix up the types of content you create by subject and point of client journey.  Also, it is important to note that your content calendar does not need to be set in stone – if you see a trending topic that you are knowledgeable about and that matters to your clients and prospects, jump on it.

STEP 4: CREATE HIGH-QUALITY CONTENT

When it comes to content marketing for advisors, quality must always come before quantity. One quality piece that delivers truly valuable insights to your target audience is significantly more valuable than a new fluff piece posted daily. Ensure your content is nothing but the highest quality by always relating to your audience, avoiding complex financial jargon, backing up points with data, using proper grammar and spelling, and incorporating correlating images.

STEP 5: UTILIZE A CALL TO ACTION

A high-quality piece of content should provoke a response from your audience – take advantage of this by directly asking for a specific action. This call to action can be anything from scheduling an appointment for a planning session to an invitation to a seminar and everything in between. No matter what, you do not want to miss this opportunity to get one step closer to achieving your goals.

STEP 6: POST AND PROMOTE

Once your content is complete, proofed and approved by compliance, it is time to post and promote. For compliance reasons, your website blog is typically the best central place for your content. After it is posted there, share the link in posts on your social media accounts and create an email campaign around it to be sent to your growing list of contacts.

STEP 7: TRACK AND OPTIMIZE

The final step toward effective content marketing for advisors is tracking and optimizing. First, measure any progress and track all results from your content marketing campaign. What is working? What is not working? Could you change anything to better reach your goals? Answer these questions and then optimize all of your future content for optimal success.

There is no time like the present to start following these seven steps so both your content and your firm can cut through the clutter and stand out from the competition. Interested in getting started? Then contact our experienced and dedicated wealth management marketing team today.