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Publicity will take your financial planning practice, your business, and your life to the next level. You're that expert who was on the TV news last week. I know of one practitioner who was flabbergasted to experience this effect after he was quoted in his hometown newspaper. And when you think about it, it's not really so irrational. Getting quoted in the media - which is way different than touting your own self in an ad - means that professional journalists have evaluated you, held you up to the light, and judged you worthy of being interviewed and quoted.

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He has 26 years of experience in crafting and delivering bottom line messages that ensure success for serious businesses like Brent Dees Financial Planning, Duke Energy, Levolor, New World Mortgage, North Carolina Tourism, VELUX and Verbatim. Who are your three best friends? Who are the most successful business people you know? Can you think of anyone who would benefit from my services. Write the names down and keep writing until the customer runs out of names. Then, go back and ask for contact information for each one. Pull out a sheet of paper and pen and look expectantly at them.

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With a little planning and luck, one that quotes you prominently. A heads-up on a new mutual fund offering, perhaps, or a general suggestion for a new retirement planning strategy. And with a few common-sense, do-able, and easy steps, any financial planner can build business - without resorting to lavish, costly marketing efforts or tasteless promotional hype. If it's still a struggle to write it yourself, verbally brief a staffer, or whoever helps you with marketing, or a freelance writer, on the information. More detail than that is counterproductive - it wastes your time, and the reader doesn't need it.

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There's a message here for financial planners who want to get free publicity exposure, and use it as a smart marketing tool to grow their practice. For the financial planner, publicity is a lot like that stone David slapped into his slingshot when he took on Goliath. Financial planners are full of information that clients need and pay for. It just takes a little work in mastering the knack of how to press the right buttons that get the media paying attention. Fortunately, media savvy is like any other resource.

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By the way, I've encountered many financial planners along the way who thought that getting impactful publicity was an impossible dream for them. For financial planners, getting publicity, in the end, isn't about having contacts in the media. And after which I cite an old African proverb. To which I say, baloney! After which I say, yes, you can. Ned Steele works with people in professional services who want to build their practice and accelerate their growth.

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The media people that are likely to want to speak to financial planners are usually working on stories that will help people. They look to financial planners to be a resource for these people. Your story will focus not on you, but on the needs and problems that drive clients to your door. Ned Steele works with people in professional services who want to build their practice and accelerate their growth. Your story is your topic - a slice of your subject matter expertise.

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Find out how the editor prefers to receive them and follow her instructions. Our next task is to decide where to send the information. If you send via email, do not attach a bunch of photos. A one-page release and product photos also should be sent. Now, here is what you should send to the media.

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And that's why any financial planner should build 80% of their publicity around what the prospect cares about. If you do a lot of retirement planning, send information on the latest changes in IRAs. And finally, if and when you are compelled to mention yourself, do yourself a favor. The remaining 20% of your PR? Go ahead and write some press releases about the awards you won, about the new office you opened, about your great skills. Believe it or not, reporters can't live without articulate experts to interview.

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Financial planners, the first thing to know about reporters is this. This leads to three tips for marketing-minded financial planners. Reporters get 30 of 'em a day - and toss most. Don't rely on press releases to build your PR campaign. Don't build your publicity campaign solely around press releases.

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Ideally, you'll get the structure in place so that each year, the planning gets easier, the metrics help prove out where refinements are needed, and your value is substantially demonstrated to management. Formerly an award-winning financial journalist, she brings over 30 years experience to client engagements. Developing a PR plan takes time and energy, but is essential to bringing focus to your PR program. Return on investment is one (though not the only) way to go - for which you'll need total spendings as well as a way to tie those spendings to such measurable results, like more business coming over the transom. You may, in fact, have to pare back - or bolster - your initiatives depending on what the numbers tell you.

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You can create that news peg by answering a few questions. If you are launching, let's say, a new garden tool that is very similar to many other garden tools on the market, don't expect much interest from the media in putting together a feature. How does your product differ from competing products already on the market. Does it provide a solution to an existing problem for consumers. Why should the media and subsequent consumers be interested in your product.

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Ned Steele works with people in professional services who want to build their practice and accelerate their growth. If the reporter isn't interested, don't be discouraged. The president of Ned Steele's MediaImpact, he is the author of 102 Publicity Tips To Grow a Business or Practice. You just want to know the basics so you can make a quick decision and get back to work. Have one or two story ideas - no more - ready to convey.

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Your word about a new trend in investing or the latest tip for retirement planning might be enough to get a media person interested, but it usually won't be enough information for them to write a whole article or create a television segment. The president of Ned Steele's MediaImpact, he is the author of 102 Publicity Tips To Grow a Business or Practice. Ned Steele works with people in professional services who want to build their practice and accelerate their growth. Make it easy for them, and they'll come back to you again and again. The more you help a reporter, the better the odds your story will fly.

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Management really CAN establish the desired behavior change up front in the planning phase, then insist on getting that result before pronouncing the public relations effort a success. I address this article to businesses, associations, non-profits and public entity managers seeking a direct connection between the money they're planning to spend on public relations, and the achievement of their organizational objectives. When our reach, persuade and move-to-desired-action efforts produce that visible modification in the behaviors of those people they wish to influence, they will be using public relations' core value to its very best advantage ensuring that they really DO receive their money's worth. Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.

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Ned Steele works with people in professional services who want to build their practice and accelerate their growth. Just read a few issues of the publication you're targeting. The best way to get yourself into a media outlet is to study it first - carefully. Learning how it covers your topics, which reporters write about your areas, and how to reach them - it all becomes crystal clear once you start paying attention. The president of Ned Steele's MediaImpact, he is the author of 102 Publicity Tips To Grow a Business or Practice.

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