The truth is that we, as business leaders, put too much pressure on data to solve all our roadblocks and setbacks. Make no mistake, data is the most important marketing currency, and we at Lone Beacon consider it—first-party data especially—our lifeblood. The problem is that many who seek to [...]
By Mike Schaffman, Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. According to a recent Business Wire survey report, 86% of consumers will leave a brand they were once loyal to after only two to three bad customer experiences. Customers have countless ways to engage with a brand, making not [...]
Don’t take this personally, but coming from a background as a professional wrestler and designing the silliest of logos – right down to a logo for a wrestler named “Dashing Rock Ripper” – the financial advisor design spectrum can come across as limited. However, it doesn’t have to be. [...]
Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik By Craig Foster, Lone Beacon's Director of Digital Media. Generation X (Gen X) to many people is the forgotten generation that falls between the Baby Boomers and Millennials. But this is a generation that is now entering the prime years for retirement [...]
Do you remember in the early 2000s when these ugly, blocky graphics started showing up in random places, and no one knew what they were? Eventually, we found out that they were called QR Codes, and their purpose was to feed us a lot of information as fast [...]
By Mike Schaffman, Lone Beacon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. In psychology, a first impression occurs when someone establishes a mental image of someone they meet for the first time. There are countless ways to create a first impression across a customer’s journey, but one thing is for certain, [...]
By Craig Foster, Lone Beacon's Director of Digital Media. On October 7th, 2022, Lone Beacon was informed by Meta (formerly Facebook) that we had become one of the first to earn its Meta Certified Company qualification. As Meta stated in the email, “we are so excited to recognize your [...]
“If you have to explain the joke, it’s not funny.” Written By: Kirby Mack, Vice President of Digital Media at Lone Beacon If you did a Google search right now for “Do’s and Don’ts of Website Design,” the first page results would give you a combined total of over [...]
When it comes to your business's marketing plans, it's easy to get caught up in epic ideas or single solutions that will launch your company into the stratosphere... But more often than not, these one-size-fits-all solutions don't deliver results! On this episode of The Customer Journey, Mike [...]
On episode 12 of The Customer Journey, Mike and Greg discuss how financial advisory firms can achieve their business goals by implementing an air-tight sales process. Accomplishing the goals you set out for your business is one of the hardest challenges your business will have. That's why [...]
