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Financial Professionals Must Work Social Media To See Real Results

Financial Professionals Must Work Social Media To See Real Results

Success in any business endeavor requires work. It takes effort to build a network and it takes a consistent amount of interaction with that network to build the trust and familiarity necessary to drive business results.

Social Business — Navigating 2012

Social Business — Navigating 2012

The entire social media landscape has evolved quickly on the regulatory front, the technology front, and also very importantly, best practices as financial advisors develop new and strengthen existing business relationships with social media.

Why Facebook is Important for the Financial Professional

Why Facebook is Important for the Financial Professional

Facebook is much more than a just a website. It is social platform of stellar proportions that has been woven into the very fabric of the web and society as a whole.

What’s the key to social media success? Connecting to active people.

What’s the key to social media success? Connecting to active people.

Activity breeds activity. Connecting with a significant number of quality people who are actively using social sites is a sure way to get started down the path to success. Without a network, not much happens.

Drawing the Line- Personal and Professional in Social Media

Drawing the Line- Personal and Professional in Social Media

In the first of a joint webinar series, speakers from Distribion, LIMRA and Socialware discuss numerous questions and perspective on personal and professional use of digital and social media.

Compliance leaders in financial services – you are not alone!

Compliance leaders in financial services – you are not alone!

In an ever-changing landscape where shades of grey define the world facing today’s financial services compliance leaders, how valuable would it be to talk with others in your same position and ask, “What are you doing about this?”

Advisers failing to communicate with clients

Advisers failing to communicate with clients

A new article from American Banker points out how Advisers are deficient in client communication. In the article they highlight findings from SEI, a provider of asset management, investment processing, and investment operations solutions for institutional and personal wealth management.

Why LinkedIn should be your new homepage

Why LinkedIn should be your new homepage

LinkedIn recently announced their new social news platform for professionals, called LinkedIn Today. This platform is essentially a daily digest of all the information that your network, your peers or your industry is reading right now.

IIROC Publishes Social Media Notice

IIROC Publishes Social Media Notice

This week started off with the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) releasing updated guidelines for the review, supervision and retention of advertisements, sales literature and correspondence.

The social web drives awareness, market share & profits

The social web drives awareness, market share & profits

Last month, McKinsey came out with their quarterly report, “The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday,” where they find that companies using the Web intensively gain greater market share and higher margins.