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Aim Carefully With Target-Date Funds
Always Know When You’re Going To Sell Before You Even Buy A Stock
Diversification: Think Twice Before Investing In Individual Stocks (Content for Financial Advisors)
Diversification: You’re Doing It Wrong
Funding Your Retirement: The Elements of Retirement Income
How Leverage Works In Investments (Content for Financial Advisors)
Last-Ditch Ways To Fund College And Education Expenses (Content for Financial Advisors)
Nest Egg for Two: Saving For Yourself And A Non-Working Spouse (Content for Financial Advisors)
Rollover, Traditional, And Roth IRAs: Money In, Money Out (Content for Financial Advisors)
The Difference Between A Traditional And Roth 401(k)
The Differences Between 529s And Coverdell ESAs
The Differences Between Bond Funds And Individual Bonds
The Miracle Of Compounding
What Type Of Investor Are You?
Why Index ETFs Are Better Than Traditional Index Mutual Funds
Why Married People Are Financially Happier
Why You Should Roll Over Your 401(k) Into An IRA As Soon As Possible (Content for Financial Advisors)
Why Your Broker Wants You To Trade More
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3 Steps to Turn Your Advisor Website into a Prospect Magnet
5 Simple Advisor Tips from Rising Star Chris Hatfield
Stephen Rhodes On His Champion Client Strategy
16 Quotes to Help You Inspire Clients
The Top 5 Ways Advisors Use Their Tablet
If You Could Teach A Client To Brush Their Teeth, You Can Keep Them Calm About Finances. Here’s Why.
How Speaking To A Group of Pilots Made My Teachers-Only Business Take Off
How to Save A Month of Time by Doing Less
3 Essential Communications Skills Every Advisor Should Master
3 Steps Critical to Reaching Your Goal
#Advisorhack: Leave Your Assets At The Office
#Advisorhack: Time Is On Your Side
#Advisorhack: Get In Over Your Head
#Advisorhack: The Numbers That Highly Productive People Love
Why Advisors Need To Adopt Hacker Culture
#Advisorhack: Hack To The Future
Advisor Superpowers: The Science of Changing Client Habits (And Your Own) #FinSci
#Advisorhack: The Complete Guide To Better Finance Writing
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Dave Ramsey Is Better Than You But …
Does Video Actually Work?
You Deserved Better
The Problem with Advice Engagment
Want to Elevate your Client Convos to TED talk Level
Every Advisor’s Biggest Fear
Winning the Internet
Financial Advisors, are you Creating Experiences or just Delivering Services?
Your Biggest Competitor as a Financial Advisor isn’t who you think it is.
Don’t Be Afraid to Innovate, Blueleaf CEO John Prendergast Tells Advisors on the Advisor Lab Podcast
How to Get Clients to Appreciate You: Blueleaf CEO John Prendergast on the Model FA Podcast
International Podcast Day 2023: Top 10 Unforgettable Augmented Advisor Episodes
Top Trends in Wealth Management in 2021
How Fintech is Disrupting Wealth Management
How to Use Video to Make Client Onboarding Less Painful
How Advisor Dave Grant Retained 100% of his New Clients with Blueleaf
How a Financial Advisor Closed 94% of Prospects
How to Handle Hostile Client Meetings
Designing the Review Meeting of Your Client’s Dreams
Financial Planning Software that Makes Plan Operations Pain Free
How I Turbocharged Engagement w/ My Website Viewers – One advisor’s success story
Here’s what the financial industry REALLY thinks about Twitter…
How I Announced a Move Across the Country With Only Positive Feedback from Clients
What To Say [and NOT say] To A Grieving Widowed Client
Invaluable Prospecting Skill I Learned After Getting “Choked Out” by a Grown Man
6 Insider Tips for Working with Widows
Defeat Robo-Advisors: Where Algorithms Can’t Replace The Human
I can run my advisory business from anywhere. Here’s how I roll…
The Two Emails That Save Me Hours Of Work And Build Client Relationships Right
Saying You’re Transparent Can Actually Kill Client Trust If You Fall Into This Trap
Video for Beginners: There’s No Need To Feel Intimidated, Starting Now
The ‘Unpopular’ Sharing Method That Gets More Eyes On My Blog
“I’m not your father’s financial planner” and other ways Sophia stands out
A Huge Pool of Investors Won’t Trust Financial Advisors Until We Do This
3 Steps to Help Clients Sail Through Trouble
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Client Engagement
Silence…
Your clients need more from you
Your Clients Spend 300+ Hours on Social Media
“Quality” Doesn’t Make A Video Viral
How to Design a Great Client Experience – Part I
A New Critical Metric for Financial Advisors: Client Engagement
The On-Demand Antidote to Media Mayhem that Keeps Clients on Track
How one advisor mastered client communication, got featured in the Wall Street Journal
The Ultimate Communication Strategy that Keeps Clients Calm and Confident
Why CNBC is Your Biggest Competitor in the Wealth Management Space
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Communicating with Clients
4 Strategic Ways to Virtually Enhance the Advisor-Client Relationship
Is your wealth firm ready for the future? It begins now
The Great Reset: How the Pandemic Changed the Wealth Management Landscape
Managing Client Expectations in the Digital Era
Virtual Wealth Management Can Improve Client Relationships
Financial Advisor versus Robo Advisors: What Are Your Clients Looking For?
How Fintech Can Help Drive Down Compliance Costs in Wealth Management
How Blueleaf Supports Your Firm’s Evolving Value Proposition
Think Your Firm’s Growth is Tied to Price? Think Again.
The Blueleaf Advantage: Keeping Value Top of Mind
If Pricing is Your Differentiator, Your Wealth Management Firm is in Trouble
4 Big Ways Advisors Add Value – And How to Tell that to Your Clients
How a Beautifully-Designed Mobile App Attracts and Retains Clients
Your Customers Hate Your Wealth Management Software — And We Don’t Blame Them
How One Advisor Used Blueleaf to Make the Transition to Remote Client Services Seamless
From Cyber-Conniption to Coffee and Chill: How to Use Blueleaf’s Client Portal to Make Onboarding a Breeze
Using Blueleaf’s Client Portal to Become Your Clients’ Favorite Video Conferencing Meeting
The Secret to Seamless Scalability in the New Digital World
How to Turbocharge Your Wealth Management Business in the Digital Era
Blueleaf Tells All: Why Account Aggregation Isn’t Perfect & How We’re Fixing It
Digital-First Disorientation: The New Wealth Management Problem
Find Out How Blueleaf Makes AUM Growth Just Happen
Blueleaf on the Breaking Banks Podcast: The Art of Innovation
Wealth Advisors Have a BlackBerry Problem…and Digital is Making it Worse
How a 360-Degree View Prevents Clients from Doing a 180
Katie Stokes Chats About Virtual Client Service
Communicating your value to clients in a down market
3 Strategies for Thriving After the DOL Rule
How To Make Panicked Client Calls History
Can you explain ‘Derivatives’ in simple terms?
Dear Advisor: Why haven’t I heard from you?
How To Introduce Account Aggregation to Clients
Be Different: Help Clients Invest In Their Happiness (Really. It’s science.)
Powerful Tools That Make You a Master at Effective Email
Do Less, Deliver More: Lessons from the Tortoise and the Hare
Your clients aren’t reading your emails. Fix it in 5 steps
How Blueleaf Put Advisor Katie Stokes in the WSJ
Explain Like I’m Six: Account Aggregation
Scariest. Client Email. Ever.
Uncommon Strategy Drives 50% Annual Growth for This Independent Advisor
Is Texting a Client Okay? The Truth for Advisors
Two Words That’ll Make You Stand Out from other Financial Advisors
14 Quotes About Financial Planning to Share With Clients
4 Ways You’re Losing Credibility With Bad Design
The Ultimate Lesson for Effective Client Meetings
NPR Exposes How These Americans Really Feel About Retirement Planning and Why
19 Ways To Describe Aggregation Without Saying The Word
7 Truths Advisors Can’t Ever Admit To Clients Turned Into Questions They’ll Love To Answer
Advisors Told Me What The Perfect Meeting Looks Like and It’s F***
Delight Clients and Increase Referrals With 4 Lessons From Walt Disney
When You Stop Sending Paper Reports, You Deprive Clients Of 15 Things
My Client Died and One Simple Question From His Family Changed My Business
7 Terms Advisors Use That Make Clients Go “Huh?”
Study Finds Office Atmosphere Influences Client Stress Levels
Two Client Meeting Mistakes You Might Be Making
3 Elements of Highly Effective Virtual Meetings
6 Tips for an Email Signature Your Clients Will Love
Bill Gross Suggests Our Flaws Instill a Sense of Trust
It’s Time To Rethink The Standard “Out of Office” Email
Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
Quarterly Reports are like Ford Pintos – How to Fix it
Think Your Clients Aren’t Tech Savvy? Think Again…
How an Advisor Grew from $0 to $1.3B AUM
NextGen Investors Demand Advisors Use a Client Portal
#FinSci: How We Talk When We Talk About Finance
Two must-have client communication elements you might be missing
Advisors in the Mainstream (Infographic and Excerpt)
Parsing the Fears of the Wealthy
Treat Your Clients Like Gods… Or Don’t (The Ideal State of Client-Advisor Relationships)
Waiting to Save – Behavioral Economics at Work
The Future Is Here, Now For Financial Advisors
Your Clients are Leaving You in the Dust!
Clients want great service. Does your financial advisory firm leave them hungry?
Advanced Free Consultations for Advisors
Trust Fall: What Do You REALLY Know About Client Trust?
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Guiding Change
If Your Firm is More Than You, You Have a Culture
How To Introduce New Technology To Your Clients
Getting Clients to Go “All In” with Held-Away Assets
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I love doing this…
Making things simple is hard
It’s a seductive lie
A silent killer is hurting your practice
The simple way to get more referrals
What getting scalded by a hot shower taught me…
Silence…
Want to know how to improve your service or product?
I empowered my team but they completely failed
Calm down, it’s not what you think
I’m incredibly selfish and it’s why…
She said “The way you communicate with clients is self-centered”
You’re Wasting Time Learning from your Customers
Over the years as an entrepreneur, I’ve learned that while you are responsible for everything…
Your job as a business leader isn’t to empower your employees
How to make your team follow you
This advisor completely changed her approach to communication
Before I knew it, I was at the top skiing alone in the sun
Another media story, clients are out on a ledge
Are you or your team feeling a little stagnant?
Don’t Let Risk Stop Your Innovation
Ever Felt Like a Moron recording video?
Defeating The Silent Advisor Killer
The Augmented Advisor: Scaling Efficiency and Margins
How the DOL Rule Change Creates Massive Hidden Threats to RIAs
Apps to Help Financial Advisors Onboard New Clients
Getting an F on Growth? Here’s How Superstar Financial Advisors Do It
How Automation Can Win New Clients
Shake up the Holiday Gifts
RIA Registration: The Nuts, Bolts, and Must-Knows
“I hope he NEVER pays us,” admits CEO of software company
Don’t get caught off guard. Deal with the unpredictable.
15 Essential Steps to Meeting Your Fiduciary Duty
Why People Are Uninspired By Retirement Planning
5 Types of Emails that are Clogging Your Inbox
Do you own a job or a REAL business? The difference for financial advisors
The Most Effective Schedule I’ve Had In Two Years and Why There’s Nothing Like It
Getting ROI from Account Aggregation in Two Basic Steps
Independent RIA Says Filling Out Paperwork By Hand ‘Seems Silly’
Bernie Clark Calls on RIAs to Embrace New Technology
3 Financial Advisors Who Are Going Paperless and Why
Advisors: Beware The Rise of the “Franken-Product”
Why Your Next Client Will Demand “On-Demand”
The Software Opportunity Missed by 93% of Advisors
What is an API? Invitation to the Blueleaf Block Party
Two Efficient Advisors who Don’t Hate April
Want a Breakthrough Strategy for Advisors? It’s simple …
Telling Stories Can Lead To More Referrals, Better Blogs
What Advisors Can Learn From A Children’s Books Author’s Legacy
How To Survive The Advisor Apocalypse
#FinSci: Improving Financial Insight with Working Memory
What Are Financial Services Lacking In The Digital Revolution?
Permission to Experiment Fearlessly? Granted.
Competing Against Robo-Advisors – Opportunities and Risks for Advisors Pt. 2
Advisors: Are You Amazon or Borders?
5 Ways To Improve The Business of Financial Advice
Competing Against Robo-Advisors – Opportunities and Risks for Advisors Pt. 1
Blueleaf Advisor – The Evolution
Why Advisor Software Feels so Outdated
Are You an Advisor or IT Specialist?
Is financial planning a set it and forget it process?
Godzilla’s spawn is targeting your clients – What will you do?
Is Your “Focus Long-term” Message to Clients Footnoted?
How To Fix Free Financial Consultations
Advisor Forecast: The Client Of The Future
Why Jerry Maguire is Wrong
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Marketing & Growth
Threats That Are Actually Growing Wealth Management
Your Wealth Management Firm is Built to Fail – Here’s How to Fix It
How to Keep Your Edge in a Wealth Management World That Won’t Slow Down
Why You Should Start a Financial Advisor Blog and How to Do It
Double Your Growth With This Financial Advisor Marketing System
Find Out How Blueleaf Automates AUM Growth
How High Growth Financial Advisors Attract and Win More Clients
Why Email is the King of Financial Advisor Marketing
Can you relate? “We throw marketing stuff out there, but engagement is low…”
Your 3-Month Plan for Attracting Clients From Scratch
[Advisor Forum] If you have questions after marketing course “Get More Leads w/ Low Maintenance Strategies”
I’ve Acquired Many New Clients with LinkedIn. Here’s how.
501 Blog Topic Ideas for Financial Advisors
Referral Strategies From Today’s Hot Startups and What Advisors Can Do
How To Speak The Language of a Prospect
The Information Journey That Makes Prospects Want to Reach Out
Wealth Manager Wins New Clients with his Hobby
How To Get Quick Ideas For Your Next Blog Post and Proof It Works
7 Tips to Increase ‘Contact Us’ Form Submissions
A Marketing Motto Every Advisor Needs and Scary Proof That It Matters
3 Ways to Spend 10 Minutes on LinkedIn
Advisor Marketing, Part 2: Don’t write a plan
Advisor Marketing, Part 1: Don’t forget clients were cavemen
Making Centers of Influence Work: Conversation with an experienced advisor
How to Get More Referrals
Telling Stories Part II: Know Your Story
Center of Influence Marketing for Advisors Made Simple
12 Tips For Getting The Most Out of a Blog Post [Infographic]
Give Me Something To Share! Thoughts and an Infographic for Advisors Audiences
Finance Marketing and The Path Of Least Resistance
Inbound Marketing for Advisors Part 2: How To Get Found
What Dolly Parton Can Teach Advisors About Marketing
Inbound Marketing Part 3: Measure, Analyze, Optimize, Repeat
What Yoda Knows That Financial Advisors Need To Learn
A Simple Strategy for Financial Content That Works
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Media
We haven’t raised our prices since 2014
How Devin Carroll Built a Thriving Advising Business via YouTube & Podcasts
Are you Wasting your Time on Corporate culture?
Corporate Culture is a Waste of Time
You ever hear these lies before?
If you’re an entrepreneur you have a secret weapon
Another media story, clients are out on a ledge
A Burning Hatred for the Media
Harnessing Short-form Video – Lessons from a Viral Video Marketing Wizard
Imagine Clients are Panic-Resistant and Always Follow Your Advice
You’ll stay disappointed in others, without this one skill
7 Things No One Tells You About Keeping Clients Engaged
Sometimes Clients Throw You A Bone and Don’t Realize It
Want high performance? You need to do these 4 steps publicly
Why we don’t raise prices even when competitors do?
Want high performance? You need to do these 4 steps publicly
How to turn long-form video into shorts that will crush
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Mobile
Designing Great Wealth Management Experiences Leveraging Mobile
Blueleaf Has Launched Its Mobile App…Upgrade to Beautiful
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Newsroom
You Don’t Need AI to Effectively Engage Your Clients
Embrace the Obvious to Counter Confusing Technology, Writes Blueleaf CEO in Advisor Perspectives
Introducing Clients to New Technology
John Prendergast on WealthTech Today: AI Tools to Use Now, the Future of Holistic Advice, and Data Aggregation to Streamline Wealth Management
Leveraging Technology & AI to Amplify Client Experience
Digital Engagement Lessons from Netflix & Facebook to Connect With Your Clients
How to Engage Clients Like Major Media: Blueleaf CEO in Advisor Perspectives
How AI Will Change the Way You Experience Wealth Management Software
Blueleaf CEO in Advisor Perspectives – Can technology Make Advisors Happy?
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News
Blueleaf Wins 2023 “Wealthie” for Aggregation Service
FusionIQ Chooses Blueleaf For Enhanced Advisor and Client Experience
Blueleaf Announces Wealth Management’s First Aggregation-as-a-Service with Direct Client Support
Blueleaf’s Aggregation System is a Finalist for a 2023 Wealth Management Industry Award
John DeVincent Joins Blueleaf Advisory Board
Blueleaf Expands Executive Ranks with Appointment of EVP of Business Development
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Operations
Robo Advisors are Going Hybrid. Should You?
14 Ways Blueleaf’s Account Aggregation Enables Proactive Insights and Helps You Add Differentiated Value
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Podcast
Build a Business on LinkedIn: Tips from a Rising LinkedIn Star and Advisor Marketing Wizard
Advisors Need to Break Through the Noise to Engage Clients, Says John Prendergast on the Bridging the Gap Podcast
How Content Lands this Small Town Advisor Big Clients from over 300 Leads Per Year
How This Financial Advisor ACTUALLY Makes Boring Topics Viral – A Marketing Whiz
Treat Generative AI Like a Lazy Intern, Says Blueleaf CEO John Prendergast on The Flexible Advisor Podcast
Getting Leads by Filming a Cooking Show in Barcelona on an iPhone?
Growing Your Practice Through Media, Mission, and Client Experience
How Financial Advisors Can Grow Faster and Provide Better Service By Looking Beyond Their Local Networks
Engaging Clients By Building An Innovative Experience Using Purposeful Design
How Financial Advisors Can Leverage Technology To Remove Complexity From Their Clients Lives
Defending “Financial Planner”s and Building the 4th Great Profession
SVB Hot Takes and Why Banking as a Service is the Next Frontier for Financial Advisors
How Broker-Dealers Can Create The Best Wealth Management Experience For Financial Advisors
Avoiding Compliance Headaches The New SEC Rule Changes Will Create For Financial Advisors
How Financial Advisors Are Leveraging Outsourcing And What The SEC Has To Say About It
Behind The Creation Of A Digital Investing Platform For RIAs
Carl Richards Lessons From Deep Thinking About Financial Planning, Wealth Management and Working With Clients
How RIAs Can Use Technology To Leverage Their Strengths And Mitigate Their Weaknesses
Why RIAs Need To Protect, Preserve and Defend The Fiduciary Standard
Live From RIA Summit 2022 With Jeff Benjamin and Chuck Failla
International Podcast Day: 10 Memorable Augmented Advisor Episodes
Investing During A Period Of Volatility And Disruption
Serving the Family: How Financial Advisors Can Attract Extended Family and Retain Heirs as Clients
How Financial Advisors Can Leverage Self Directed IRAs to Deliver True Holistic Advice And Get Paid
How Delivering Services Beyond Financial Advice Can Help You Grow and Retain Your Client Base
New Account Aggregation Approaches Are Creating Fantastic Opportunities For Financial Advisors
How Personalized Portfolios Powered By A.I. and Machine Learning Are Helping Advisors Attract Millennial and Gen-Z Investors
Understanding The Economic Impacts of The Pandemic
How Financial Advisors Can Use Behavioral Finance To Grow Their Business And Better Serve Their Clients
How To Drive High Quality Investment Returns By Aligning Client Values And ESG Investing Strategies
Your Financial Advisory Business Is Undervalued – Here’s Why! And How To Fix It
The $20 Trillion Opportunity in Wealth Management – The Rise of Women as The Primary Controllers of Wealth.
How Artificial Intelligence Has Uncovered New Investing Signals – And How You and Your Clients Can Take Advantage Of Them
How To Build a Flexible Wealth Management Business That Supports Your Lifestyle and Unlocks Growth
Buying or Selling a Wealth Management Business: You Have More Options Than You May Think
‘Beyond Good’ Wealth Management: How Being Mission Driven and Tech Forward Can Dramatically Grow Your Business
Wealth Management Through the Pandemic: The Surprising Value of Personal Advice
The (Good) Robots Are Coming! How AI and Automation Are Helping Wealth Management Businesses Like Yours Today
How Capital Gains Tax Rate Increase May Affect Business Owners (Including Financial Advisors)
The Future of Financial Advice: A bird’s eye view with the NAPFA CEO
How Financial Advisors can Explain Cryptocurrency and Blockchain to their Clients
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Product
15 Things to Consider When Shopping for Account Aggregation
A “Data Problem” Grew This Advisor’s AUM by $1.5M
Blueleaf’s Integration with Redtail
Integration With MoneyGuidePro!
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Rebalancing
5 ways Rebalancing Software Should be Creating Value for You and Your Clients
The One Rebalancing Trick That Creates Real Client Value & Could Expand Your Business
The Future of Rebalancing: Rebalance in the Blink of An Eye, Click of a Button
Why Rebalancing Still Sucks 10 Years into the Robo-Advisor Revolution
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Banking on Simplicity: Why Blueleaf is Everything You Need And Nothing You Don’t
Why Automation is Critical for Wealth Management
Why Simplicity is the Key to Weathering the Wealth Management Storm
Future-Proofing Your Firm with Strategic Simplicity
Complexity is Wealth Management’s Favorite — and Most Costly — Vice
Deciding what to automate is as simple as 1 2 3.
Automate Your Daily Routines
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