Does Blogging Work To Increase Your Ranking On Google?
June 21, 2011 by Simon · Leave a Comment
My friend Pat introduced me to the One Page Business Plan in October of 2009 and Pat took me through the One Page Business Plan process as part of his One Page Business Plan training.
Pat told me that the One Page Business Plan was going to change my business and it has.
I liked the One Page Business Planning Process so much I went ahead and started the One Page Business Plan Certification Training in August on 2010 and received my Senior One Page Business Plan Consultant designation in the Spring of 2011.
At the writing of this blog, I’ve helped over 50 financial advisors complete their One Page Business Plans and presented the One Page Business Plan to both on-line Webinar and live audiences receiving these reviews.
I started blogging about the One Page Business Plan back in the Fall of 2010 and soon after I checked to see where Leading Advisor came up on a search on Google for the One Page Business Plan and we were way down on page 10.
This spring I checked again and did a search on Google for the One Page Business Plan and we were on page 6.
I just checked and we are now on page 3.
Free One Page Business Plan Webinar June 23rd – Register Now!
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Announcing Leading Advisor’s One Page Business Plan(TM) Free Webinars and the One Page Business Plan(TM) Webinars!
“If you don’t get the words right, you might build the wrong business and may never get the numbers right.” The date for the One Page Business Plan(TM) Free Webinar is:
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Who should attend?
- Do you have too many scattered ideas?
- Do you need to focus on a few?
- Do you need to jumpstart your business right now?
- Do you have no time or interest in writing a 50 page business plan?
- Do you need to determine if you’re focusing on the right things?
- Do you need an effective blueprint to keep yourself and team focused?
Then consider a fresh, simple approach to business planning that will enable you to focus on what is important…the One Page Business Plan(TM) – a powerful tool for building and managing a business. It’s short, it’s concise, and it delivers results quickly and effectively. There can be no question as to where your business is headed when it is in writing, especially when you have the key essentials about growing your business clearly specified on a single page.
Is this another ho-hum course on business planning like the ten others you have attended – no way! I know how to capture the essence of any business in just a few minutes using the innovative key word and short phrase techniques using the One Page Business Plan(TM).
To Register for the One Page Business Plan(TM) Free Webinars:
Call Laura at 250 248-6012 / 1 877 248-6012 or e-mail Laura at lreilly@leadingadvisor.com and you will receive your GoTo Meeting Webinar Link, Phone Number and Access Code.
- Thursday, June 23rd at 1:45pm EDT
The Oscar’s Demonstrate That Speaking Is The Winner Over Social Networking
February 28, 2011 by Simon · Leave a Comment
Based on the following Oscar results from last night’s Academy Awards and the following Financial Advisor Marketing Survey, speaking is the clear winner over social networking.
The King’s Speech
- Best Actor
- Best Director
- Best Picture
- Best Original Screenplay
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Film Editing
- Best Original Score
Honestly, there is no clear winner because one requires both speaking and social networking for marketing success.
Simon Reilly Makes The Final Round Of Advisor.ca Visionary Poll!
Dear All,
I’ve made the final round for Advisor.ca’s ‘Name That Visionary Poll’.
The Advisor.ca ‘Name That Visionary Poll’ started last April. The first step was nomination, the second step was shortlisting the top twenty and this final round is choosing a winner from the top ten so please click here to cast your vote for me.
There are two ways I could have played this:
- Pretending to be a shy and demure Canadian, because that is what Canadians do, in the hope that people will vote anyway – ”I don’t take part in these celebrity competitions because it’s beneath me”
- Bold, outrageous and provocative – ”asking for the business” – vote for me because I love the exposure!
Another reason that I am doing this is to demonstrate the power of E-Nurture Marketing & Social Media as you are a reader of my Blog or E-Newsletter and we were initially introduced through financial advisor speaking or via the internet.
Honestly, it would cost tens of thousands to receive the exposure that this poll can create.
So I’m asking for your help.
The next step is to vote for one of the top ten finalists and you can do this by CLICKING HERE & PLEASE VOTE FOR ME.
Again, why am I asking?
■ The exposure is absolutely great for my professional career development
■ The publicity is a vindication for all the hard work done with clients and the philosophy and ideas that we share in these and other pages
■ The encouragement to me to keep fighting the fight for quality career and independent financial advisors
■ My coaches and mentors all get to take a break as my unmet need of recognition is satisfied
To vote CLICK HERE.
Please note that given Advisor.ca is a publication for financial and investment advisors, I humbly submit that I do not profess to be a Financial or Investment Visionary as far as financial planning, products and services.
If one were to see me as a Visionary it may be because of doing my best to walk my talk as a Financial & Investment Advisor Coach, Speaker & Writer that uses systems like a E-Nurture Marketing & Social Media in their own practice and this is why I suppose I gained the nomination in the first place for Advisor.ca Visionary Poll.
To vote CLICK HERE.
Celebrating My 6th Year Of Blogging & 1790 Blogs!
February 25, 2011 by Simon · Leave a Comment
Today marks the 6th Anniversary since I started blogging along with my 1,790th blog.
When we started out working exclusively within the financial advisor niche we would knock on doors and the reply was; “Who’s Simon Reilly”?
Honestly we couldn’t get a look in past the gate keeper.
I kind of felt like a person that introduced themselves to me at my first Anthony Robbins’ event in 1989 at The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle as a JAFR … Just Another Frigging Realtor.
Back in those days ( 1989 ), personal development was still the next big thing which was followed by coaching becoming the next big thing in 1994.
The days of “anyone that can fog a mirror can become a coach” are long gone and it takes commitment, consistency, contribution and conviction and drilling deep into a niche market to be seen as a recognized coaching expert through speaking and writing to reach high above the cloud of the competition.
Social media appears to be the next big thing.
I see myself as an accidental social media expert with my social media journey contributing to the financial advisor profession starting in December of 2004 with the launch of our Leading Advisor Website along with my Plan * Play * Profit monthly E-Newsletter followed by the launch of my daily blog in February of 2005.
Six years ago was a long time ago when I had no clue about the social media juggernauts that have turned out to be the big three of LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter starting in 2002, 2003 and 2006 respectively.
In the early days of our web site, I guess you could say that I was old school adopting “if it is going to be, it is up to me” when I came to realize that while SEO gave me top Google rankings in the following categories, it was not giving me the calls and e-mails that I was expecting; “financial advisor coach”, “financial advisor coaching”, “financial advisor speaker”, financial advisor speaking” and “financial advisor training”.
The financial advisor profession, along with working with high net worth financial clients requires a consultative face to face sales approach and it isn’t going to happen because of your latest Tweet. It is about STP! See The People!
So with “if it is going to be, it is up to me”, I set out six years ago to STP and at the same time offer invitations to my web presence through speaking coast to coast in Canada & the USA at financial advisor conferences and tradeshows.
I’ve spoken at over 170 of the who’s who of financial advisor conferences and tradeshows that include; Advocis, Canada Life, Independent Financial Brokers, Manulife, NAIFA, Pro Seminars, The Million Dollar Round Table, and my speaking schedule for 2010 included speaking main stage for the best of the best including; Great West Life, HUB Financial, London Life and Sun Life.
We contribute by supporting the financial advisor profession as members of Advocis ( The Financial Advisors Association of Canada ) , the IFB ( The Independent Financial Brokers of Canada ) and NAIFA ( The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors ).
Along the way I’ve been written about in the Advocis Forum Magazine, Advisor.ca, NAIFA-Iowa’s Monthly Magazine and The Investment Executive. I am currently one of the top ten finalists in Advisor.ca’s ‘Name That Visionary Contest’ as voted on by their readers.
And speaking of writing, social media has helped me to find my speaking voice and my writing voice to publish my first book called, Curing The Unmet Needs Disease, and my second book is ready to be published entitled, Breaking Through The Plateauing Out Syndrome.
So with six years into social media, I am still a novice with having spoken to 15,000 – 20,000 financial advisors that narrows down to a Plan * Play * Profit monthly E-Newsletter readership of about 10%.
Our social media journey continues to improve working with Liz Urichuk as our Social Media Manager and we look forward to strengthening our relationships with the our web and speaking contacts through FaceBook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
At this stage of drilling deep down into a niche through speaking combined with social media I’m celebrating that we are now knocking on the doors of financial advisor corporates and financial advisors and we are being invited in for a conversation.
Oh yes, there is the odd time that we receive e-mails like this one from Australia, Canada, the UK, and the USA from social media; “I’ve been reading your E-Newsletter and Blog for about a year and a half off and on and I’d like to have a conversation with you.”
After 6 years in social media it is clear to me that the financial advisor profession, not unlike any other profession, requires a consultative sales process that requires face to face and or telephone contact to create the sales.
Don’t fool yourself into thinking that social media is going to replace the consultative face to face and or telephone contact that is required to create the sales in your niche market … social media is just another tool and it is not the next big thing.
What is the next big thing?
There is no next big thing.
Nothing works.
What works is you working what works – STP – spend more time to see the people, versus key the people!
Simon Reilly Makes The Final Round Of Advisor.ca Visionary Poll!
Dear All,
I’ve made the final round for Advisor.ca’s ‘Name That Visionary Poll’.
The Advisor.ca ‘Name That Visionary Poll’ started last April. The first step was nomination, the second step was shortlisting the top twenty and this final round is choosing a winner from the top ten so please click here to cast your vote for me.
There are two ways I could have played this:
- Pretending to be a shy and demure Canadian, because that is what Canadians do, in the hope that people will vote anyway – ”I don’t take part in these celebrity competitions because it’s beneath me”
- Bold, outrageous and provocative – ”asking for the business” – vote for me because I love the exposure!
Another reason that I am doing this is to demonstrate the power of E-Nurture Marketing & Social Media as you are a reader of my Blog or E-Newsletter and we were initially introduced through financial advisor speaking or via the internet.
Honestly, it would cost tens of thousands to receive the exposure that this poll can create.
So I’m asking for your help.
The next step is to vote for one of the top ten finalists and you can do this by CLICKING HERE & PLEASE VOTE FOR ME.
Again, why am I asking?
■ The exposure is absolutely great for my professional career development
■ The publicity is a vindication for all the hard work done with clients and the philosophy and ideas that we share in these and other pages
■ The encouragement to me to keep fighting the fight for quality career and independent financial advisors
■ My coaches and mentors all get to take a break as my unmet need of recognition is satisfied
To vote CLICK HERE.
Please note that given Advisor.ca is a publication for financial and investment advisors, I humbly submit that I do not profess to be a Financial or Investment Visionary as far as financial planning, products and services.
If one were to see me as a Visionary it may be because of doing my best to walk my talk as a Financial & Investment Advisor Coach, Speaker & Writer that uses systems like a E-Nurture Marketing & Social Media in their own practice and this is why I suppose I gained the nomination in the first place for Advisor.ca Visionary Poll.
To vote CLICK HERE.
Thank You To The Elite Advisor
February 24, 2011 by Simon · Leave a Comment
The Elite Advisor has brought together an all-star line-up of World Class Coaches that helps financial advisors increase their sales and grow their practice.
We very much appreciate being part of The Elite Advisor and thank you for including our offer for our Free One Page Business Plan Webinars March 16th & 22nd.
Free One Page Business Plan Webinars March 16th & 22nd – Register Now!
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Announcing Leading Advisor’s One Page Business Plan(TM) Free Webinar and the One Page Business Plan(TM) Webinars!
“If you don’t get the words right, you might build the wrong business and may never get the numbers right.” The dates for the One Page Business Plan(TM) Free Webinars are:
|
Who should attend?
- Do you have too many scattered ideas?
- Do you need to focus on a few?
- Do you need to jumpstart your business right now?
- Do you have no time or interest in writing a 50 page business plan?
- Do you need to determine if you’re focusing on the right things?
- Do you need an effective blueprint to keep yourself and team focused?
Then consider a fresh, simple approach to business planning that will enable you to focus on what is important…the One Page Business Plan(TM) – a powerful tool for building and managing a business. It’s short, it’s concise, and it delivers results quickly and effectively. There can be no question as to where your business is headed when it is in writing, especially when you have the key essentials about growing your business clearly specified on a single page.
Is this another ho-hum course on business planning like the ten others you have attended – no way! I know how to capture the essence of any business in just a few minutes using the innovative key word and short phrase techniques using the One Page Business Plan(TM).
To Register for the One Page Business Plan(TM) Free Webinar:
Call Laura at 250 248-6012 / 1 877 248-6012 or e-mail Laura at lreilly@leadingadvisor.com and you will receive your GoTo Meeting Webinar Link, Phone Number and Access Code.
- Wednesday, March 16th at 1:00pm EDT
- Tuesday, March 22nd at 4:15pm EDT
Simon Reilly Makes The Final Round Of Advisor.ca Visionary Poll!
Dear All,
I’ve made the final round for Advisor.ca’s ‘Name That Visionary Poll’.
The Advisor.ca ‘Name That Visionary Poll’ started last April. The first step was nomination, the second step was shortlisting the top twenty and this final round is choosing a winner from the top ten so please click here to cast your vote for me.
There are two ways I could have played this:
- Pretending to be a shy and demure Canadian, because that is what Canadians do, in the hope that people will vote anyway – ”I don’t take part in these celebrity competitions because it’s beneath me”
- Bold, outrageous and provocative – ”asking for the business” – vote for me because I love the exposure!
Another reason that I am doing this is to demonstrate the power of E-Nurture Marketing & Social Media as you are a reader of my Blog or E-Newsletter and we were initially introduced through financial advisor speaking or via the internet.
Honestly, it would cost tens of thousands to receive the exposure that this poll can create.
So I’m asking for your help.
The next step is to vote for one of the top ten finalists and you can do this by CLICKING HERE & PLEASE VOTE FOR ME.
Again, why am I asking?
■ The exposure is absolutely great for my professional career development
■ The publicity is a vindication for all the hard work done with clients and the philosophy and ideas that we share in these and other pages
■ The encouragement to me to keep fighting the fight for quality career and independent financial advisors
■ My coaches and mentors all get to take a break as my unmet need of recognition is satisfied
To vote CLICK HERE.
Please note that given Advisor.ca is a publication for financial and investment advisors, I humbly submit that I do not profess to be a Financial or Investment Visionary as far as financial planning, products and services.
If one were to see me as a Visionary it may be because of doing my best to walk my talk as a Financial & Investment Advisor Coach, Speaker & Writer that uses systems like a E-Nurture Marketing & Social Media in their own practice and this is why I suppose I gained the nomination in the first place for Advisor.ca Visionary Poll.
To vote CLICK HERE.
The Best Advisors Seem To Have The Deepest Scars
February 23, 2011 by Simon · Leave a Comment
They say that wisdom enters through the wound and the core of the passion to serve is based on life experience both positive and negative and the best advisors seem to have the deepest scars.
The life experience equipped them with the knowledge and the skills to pass onto other people to help them move forward.
This experience gives one something interesting to stand up and say rather than;
Hi, I’m Joe Advisor and I sell investment products and life insurance.
They use what has happened to them both personally and professionally, good and bad and use it as a catalyst to pass their experience and passion onto other people.
Here is an outstanding example of a Parable from Rod Tyler of Tyler & Associates in Regina, SK.
My Graduate Degree – by Rod Tyler
“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it ceased to be one” – Mark Twain.
When I was 24 years old, I left university and graduate school to live in a northern Manitoba mining town and write my thesis. This was the 1970′s and the cost of living in northern Manitoba was skyrocketing. I had only my scholarship funds and a promise of a job on which to survive financially. Before too long, I had spent all the scholarship money and was working at three jobs to make ends meet. One of those jobs was running a truck leasing and rental operation. After six months of working at this job, my friend and chartered accountant, who had convinced me to take this job, said that he had good news and bad news. The bad news was that I wasn’t going to get paid. The good news was that I could buy the rental company and assume its debt.
For six months, I continued to fulfill another contract, unloading 540 washers, dryers, fridges and stoves, and installing them in a townhouse complex. Then with my money from completing that contract, I flew off to Winnipeg, to meet a high priced lawyer, one of the partners of the city’s most prestigious and powerful law firms. I handed over all my money to him and took on the debt of the rental company and the rental vehicles. I went straight to my hotel room after this signing ceremony, with the intent of flying back to northern Manitoba the next day. I no sooner sat down, alone, in that hotel room, than I began to cry. I was a grown man, sort of, supposedly educated, and I had just given away all my savings and agreed to repay a huge debt. My crying lasted all of about 10 minutes when I realized that I had only one option; I needed to get back to my newly purchased business as quickly as I could and then get on with it. I called the airline, asked if I could get on that evening’s flight, and when they said yes, I rushed to the front desk of the hotel, slapped down my room money and hailed a cab to the airport. I never spent another minute thinking about what might happen. I was, as they say in poker, “all in”.
Over the next several years I put all my efforts into making my business as successful as I could. Eventually I sold it to another budding entrepreneur. I never did finish that thesis, but I received something more valuable. I got a graduate degree in the actual practice of running a real business. It wasn’t the least bit theoretical. I also learned not to spend my time worrying about outcomes that might never materialize. I learned that it is better to take action. My business provided me with “on the job training”, including more lessons from other missteps, but with all the rewards that accrue to persistence. For that, I am thankful.
You might be temped to conclude that I place little value in education. I do not want to mislead you, because I do place a great deal of emphasis on advanced learning. When I entered the world of financial services I immediately recognized the need to learn all I could about financial planning and to obtain all the professional accreditations. And so I took action and completed all the requisite courses. Later in life, recognizing the need to continue learning, I have added to the initials you see behind my name. I also still spend a great deal of time attending advanced learning seminars and professional workshops. In addition I completely embrace the concept of the Coop Program of Studies sponsored by my alma mater, the University of Regina. I have hired students to work in our business so they can appreciate the expectations of a business while they complete their program of studies and obtain a degree. However, the experience I gained from starting and successfully running a business at 24 years of age will be the best graduate degree I could ever earn.
Perhaps someday I will return to the halls of learning to offer a course focused on the entrepreneurial initiative. If I do, it will involve some theory and a lot of actual experience in starting and successfully operating a new business.
Simon Reilly Makes The Final Round Of Advisor.ca Visionary Poll!
Dear All,
I’ve made the final round for Advisor.ca’s ‘Name That Visionary Poll’.
The Advisor.ca ‘Name That Visionary Poll’ started last April. The first step was nomination, the second step was shortlisting the top twenty and this final round is choosing a winner from the top ten so please click here to cast your vote for me.
There are two ways I could have played this:
- Pretending to be a shy and demure Canadian, because that is what Canadians do, in the hope that people will vote anyway – ”I don’t take part in these celebrity competitions because it’s beneath me”
- Bold, outrageous and provocative – ”asking for the business” – vote for me because I love the exposure!
Another reason that I am doing this is to demonstrate the power of E-Nurture Marketing & Social Media as you are a reader of my Blog or E-Newsletter and we were initially introduced through financial advisor speaking or via the internet.
Honestly, it would cost tens of thousands to receive the exposure that this poll can create.
So I’m asking for your help.
The next step is to vote for one of the top ten finalists and you can do this by CLICKING HERE & PLEASE VOTE FOR ME.
Again, why am I asking?
■ The exposure is absolutely great for my professional career development
■ The publicity is a vindication for all the hard work done with clients and the philosophy and ideas that we share in these and other pages
■ The encouragement to me to keep fighting the fight for quality career and independent financial advisors
■ My coaches and mentors all get to take a break as my unmet need of recognition is satisfied
To vote CLICK HERE.
Please note that given Advisor.ca is a publication for financial and investment advisors, I humbly submit that I do not profess to be a Financial or Investment Visionary as far as financial planning, products and services.
If one were to see me as a Visionary it may be because of doing my best to walk my talk as a Financial & Investment Advisor Coach, Speaker & Writer that uses systems like a E-Nurture Marketing & Social Media in their own practice and this is why I suppose I gained the nomination in the first place for Advisor.ca Visionary Poll.
To vote CLICK HERE.
Don’t Use The Words Financial Planning In The Title Of Your Presentations
February 22, 2011 by Simon · Leave a Comment
Using the words “Financial Planning” in your speaking presentation title is the same as us using the words “Business Plan” in our speaking presentation titles.
Whether it is a Financial Plan or Business Plan, the potential attendee of your speaking presentation already has an opinion of what a Financial Plan or Business Plan is and your value added presentation could be easily written off.
Here is the latest full title and overview that we are using and the other 11 titles that we could use.
You Don’t Need More Time….You Just Need To Decide!
- Do you have too many scattered ideas?
- Do you need to focus on a few?
- Do you need to jumpstart your business right now?
- Do you have no time or interest in writing a 50 page business plan?
- Do you need to determine if you’re focusing on the right things?
- Do you need an effective blueprint to keep yourself and team focused?
Join Simon Reilly in this value packed presentation to learn how the One Page Business Plan can help you to write a clear, concise, and understandable business plan using key words and short phrases in the fastest, easiest and simplest way possible.
- 29 Disciplines For Growth & Success
- Getting Things Right When Everything Seems Wrong
- Stop Using A To Do List, It’s Killing Your Inspiration
- 29 Tools & Tricks For Business Planning
- What Will Your Practice look Like In 2014?
- The Traditional Business Plan Is Dead
- How To Re-Think Your Business In 29 Steps
- The Disciplines Of Business
- Reflections On What Works And What Doesn’t Work In Business
- The 90 Day Business Plan
- How To Fire Up Your Business In 90 Days
Simon Reilly Makes The Final Round Of Advisor.ca Visionary Poll!
Dear All,
I’ve made the final round for Advisor.ca’s ‘Name That Visionary Poll’.
The Advisor.ca ‘Name That Visionary Poll’ started last April. The first step was nomination, the second step was shortlisting the top twenty and this final round is choosing a winner from the top ten so please click here to cast your vote for me.
There are two ways I could have played this:
- Pretending to be a shy and demure Canadian, because that is what Canadians do, in the hope that people will vote anyway – ”I don’t take part in these celebrity competitions because it’s beneath me”
- Bold, outrageous and provocative – ”asking for the business” – vote for me because I love the exposure!
Another reason that I am doing this is to demonstrate the power of E-Nurture Marketing & Social Media as you are a reader of my Blog or E-Newsletter and we were initially introduced through financial advisor speaking or via the internet.
Honestly, it would cost tens of thousands to receive the exposure that this poll can create.
So I’m asking for your help.
The next step is to vote for one of the top ten finalists and you can do this by CLICKING HERE & PLEASE VOTE FOR ME.
Again, why am I asking?
■ The exposure is absolutely great for my professional career development
■ The publicity is a vindication for all the hard work done with clients and the philosophy and ideas that we share in these and other pages
■ The encouragement to me to keep fighting the fight for quality career and independent financial advisors
■ My coaches and mentors all get to take a break as my unmet need of recognition is satisfied
To vote CLICK HERE.
Please note that given Advisor.ca is a publication for financial and investment advisors, I humbly submit that I do not profess to be a Financial or Investment Visionary as far as financial planning, products and services.
If one were to see me as a Visionary it may be because of doing my best to walk my talk as a Financial & Investment Advisor Coach, Speaker & Writer that uses systems like a E-Nurture Marketing & Social Media in their own practice and this is why I suppose I gained the nomination in the first place for Advisor.ca Visionary Poll.
To vote CLICK HERE.
Plan · Play · Profit – February 2011
February 21, 2011 by Simon · Leave a Comment
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Dates for 2012 TBA - stay tuned!
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Now Reading
Planned books:
- Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Book Of Air And Shadows: A Novel by Michael Gruber
Current books:
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Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon
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Paulo Coelho: A Warrior’s Life: The Authorized Biography by Fernando Morais
Recent books:
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Zafon
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson
- The Book Of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
