Use These 3 Buckets of Financial Blog Content to Attract Prospects

This post was authored by Kristin Harad and originally appeared here on GuideVine.

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If you want to build your online presence and attract an interested following of prospects (as well as existing clients) you may have launched a financial blog. But after the initial rush and excitement of starting out, are you keeping up with your posting? At a minimum, you should be posting content twice a month, with a more ideal pace of once a week to get the results you desire.

How can you possibly generate that much content and will you run out of things to say? Not if you try filling and using these three buckets with ideas that appeal to your target client.

1. Financial Topics

This may be the easiest of all the buckets since you deal with these topics every day as a part of your practice. Technical and educational, these posts cover the issues and questions your target audience must consider when it comes to their finances: retirement, cashflow planning, risk management, estate planning, taxes, investments and any other financial topic that matters to them. The key to success with this content bucket is to deliver specific information for your audience. So for example, instead of “The 4 Types of Insurance You May Want To Skip”, consider “The 4 Types of Insurance Recent College Graduates May Want to Skip”. Dig into the needs of your audience.

2. Emotional & Lifestyle

Many of us may have to step outside of our comfort zones to create this personal content. One way to start is think about your ideal client. What do you know about this person? What keeps her up at night? What does she enjoy? What does she do day-to-day? What scares her? The answers to these questions will inform your qualitative pieces. Provide your perspective, share your experience, dare to be vulnerable, and open up by discussing the softer side of money. You can also demonstrate how finances fit into your client’s lifestyle choices and values. If your client desires “multiple-week, international escape vacations” then you may want to write a post “What to Consider for Your Next International Adventure” or share a personal experience, “My Tips and What I Learned From 3 Weeks in Italy”.

3. The Planning Process

This catchall category dives into the operational, practical end of planning. You use this content to demystify the planning process and help overcome objections or resistance to engaging a professional. You can shape content from the CFP Board’s Six Steps in the Financial Planning Process, with the specifics of your firm’s way of doing business and the experience your clients can expect.   This type of content may include advice for organizing financial documents or keeping track of savings goals, or you may share tools, websites, or other resources that would be helpful for your audience.

Once you jot down ideas for content to fill each bucket, create titles for your posts, prioritize and organize your content calendar, limber up your fingers and start writing!   You will find yourself filling 52 weeks of content in no time.

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