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In a highly regulated and competitive market, how do you stand out? It’s about your brand, David Avrin, the Visibility Coach, told advisors at Fidelity’s Inside Track conference in New York City on Thursday.

The Social Security System will be a significant source of retirement income for anyone over the age of 40. And it most likely will continue for decades, provided it gets tweaked and changed along the way. But that’s an important caveat. It needs to be changed.

If you’ve built a productive advisory practice, you know that the single most important resource for prospective clients is your existing book of clients. Unfortunately, Ken Haman says asking for referrals from your current clients can do more harm than help.

Everything financial advisors wanted to know about LinkedIn, but were afraid to ask.

Twitter is arguably the Internet’s most powerful tool for conducting real-time conversations online. Here are a few reasons to consider using Twitter, and how to make it work in your practice.

Search engine optimization is more than just an industry buzzword. Knowing a little bit about SEO can help financial advisors get the most of their website.

It is vitally important to give clients a technology experience that communicates your message, extends your brand, and makes your firm easy to access, according to Jon Reiners of Orion.

Your IRA Experts answers the question: should a client roll an inherited IRA into a Roth IRA or continue to withdraw the required minimum distributions?

There is a lot of misinformation and misconceptions about Social Security. With the right knowledge, you’ll be able to help your clients as they struggle with their own fears of outliving their money.

What makes you different from other advisors? Why should your ideal clients choose you over all the other advisors they have access to? And is that uniqueness something you developed as part of your marketing plan, or is it who you are?