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Green light on social media as SEC asks FinServ firms “what are you waiting for?”Social Media

by Hazel McHugh on April 19, 2013 with 1 comments

The list of reasons not to use social media for fund marketing used to go something like this… Compliance concerns And do clients really want it, anyway? Fear of the regulators And does it really drive results? Worry over controls and safeguards But we don’t know what to do… For some time, now, those financial …

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Money talks. Why financial conversations need to be different.Social Media

by Hazel McHugh on September 27, 2012 with 0 comments

“Money talks”.  The phrase is familiar.  The question is, has money started to lose its voice in our post credit crunch world? Or at least speak a little more softly? It certainly has if Rachel Botsman is to be believed.  In her book, What’s mine is yours.  How collaborative consumption is changing the way we …

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Top 10 Questions a Financial Adviser initially asks about Social MediaSocial Media

by Bridget Greenwood on September 26, 2012 with 0 comments

When social media has been part of your everyday life (in both your professional and personal life) for a number of years now, it’s difficult to remember that not everyone ‘gets it’.  When the thousands of people you connect with every year are using social media, and you see the benefits, sometimes it means you …

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FlawsomeSocial Media

by Hazel McHugh on September 20, 2012 with 0 comments

Trust. It’s a word that’s pretty important in financial services, yet in relatively short supply. It’s hard to make a success of any financial brand without establishing your clients’ trust and yet the banking crisis and ongoing aftershocks have left consumer confidence at an all time low. A lot has been written about what financial …

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