Showcase Your Personality and Build Relationships With Personal Content
Client
Rocklin Senavinin
Project Summary
Personal Content Supports Your Marketing Strategy
People want to do business with a person, not a corporation, especially when it comes to something as personal as their family’s wealth. As a financial advisor, marketing with personal content helps you be more:
- Memorable
- Authentic
- Likable
- Trustworthy
- Referable
It is also typically the highest-performing content on an advisor’s website. The increased traffic, email opens, and email click-through rate helps improve your website’s search engine rankings over the long run.
In a Nutshell
Here’s What We Accomplished
- Connected with network
- Created personal content to tell a story
- Boosted website traffic
Problem breakdown
Building Relationships With Personal Content
In today’s virtual environment, is it possible to build relationships with personal content?
When you meet with your clients or call them on the phone, what is the first thing you talk about? Do you immediately discuss your market outlook or investment strategy? I doubt it.
More often, you probably ask about their family, their kids, and how they’ve been doing. You may give them an update on your family and hobbies. Why should your marketing messages and website be any different?
Our solution
Creating Personal Content to Connect With Your Audience
One of my favorite examples is a blog post we did for our client Rocklin Senavinin CFP® of Fiduciary Wealth Management called “Father-Daughter Dance at the Sugar Plum Ball.” If someone you care about posts a topic like that, it’s impossible not to click to see the pictures!
At least twice a year, you should incorporate personal content with photos into your marketing strategy. This content could be any updates or stories your network may find interesting. Here are a few examples that have performed well for our advisors in the past:
- Meet Our New Team Member
- See Photos of Our New Office Location
- Lessons From Our Family Vacation
- Meet the Newest Addition to Our Family (Grandbaby Photos!)
- The One Lesson I Teach My Kids About Money
- Why I Became a Financial Advisor
- The 3 Biggest Money Mistakes I See
- Photos From Our Latest Event
- My Favorite Golf Courses in San Diego
- My Favorite Restaurants in Omaha
How We Added Value
Creating Personal Content to Tell Your Story
Because writing and deploying personal content can be uncomfortable for advisors, it’s a fantastic task to outsource to your professional marketing team. Rocklin Senavinin is one advisor we support who does this really well.
Our advisor clients like Rocklin send us their photos and a few bullet points, and then we do the rest of the work, including:
- Writing each article
- Creating a compelling headline
- Editing and proofreading
- Adding images
- Uploading to their website
- Sharing via email
- Posting to social media
- Tracking the success of each post
For this particular advisor, 5 of his 8 all-time top blog posts are personal posts! Here’s a list of his overall top-performing blog posts and the percentage of total website traffic they represent.
- Why I Am Passionate About Being a Financial Advisor (5.31% of total site traffic)
- Our Incredible Weekend at the Viking Cooking School (5.05% of total site traffic)
- What Does the SECURE Act Mean for You?
- We Are an Independent and Fee-Only Investment Advisory Firm
- Medicare Part B Premiums Increasing This Year
- Father-Daughter Dance at the Sugar Plum Ball (3.12% of total site traffic)
- My Favorite Restaurants in Little Rock (2.8% of total site traffic)
- Summer Series: My Favorite Restaurants in Little Rock (2.65% of total site traffic)
You can see that almost 20% of traffic to Rocklin’s website is traffic to these pages! These personal posts do really well by both email and on social media to captivate interest and keep him top-of-mind.
They also give clients something to chat about the next time he meets with them. Being able to build relationships with personal content is an important element of building longer-lasting relationships over time, especially in a virtual environment.
Take Your Marketing To the Next Level
FAQs
Personal content helps financial advisors appear more authentic, relatable, and trustworthy. Clients want to work with real people, not faceless corporations. Sharing personal stories, hobbies, family updates, and experiences allows advisors to build stronger emotional connections with prospects and clients.
Personal content often generates higher engagement than traditional financial content. Advisors frequently see increased website traffic, higher email open rates, stronger social media engagement, and more meaningful conversations with clients because personal stories naturally capture attention and encourage interaction.
Some of the most effective personal content includes family stories, travel experiences, favorite local restaurants, hobbies, community involvement, personal milestones, office updates, and stories about why the advisor became a financial professional. Content with authentic photos and storytelling tends to perform especially well.
Personal content creates familiarity and trust by giving clients insight into the advisor’s personality and values. When clients feel they know the advisor on a personal level, conversations become more natural and relationships often become stronger and longer lasting.
Yes. Personal content can significantly improve website engagement metrics such as traffic, time on page, click-through rates, and social sharing. These engagement signals can contribute to improved SEO performance over time by increasing user interaction and website visibility.
Personal blog posts tend to feel more relatable and emotionally engaging than purely educational financial topics. Readers are naturally curious about stories, experiences, and behind-the-scenes insights, which often leads to higher click-through rates and stronger audience engagement.
The case study recommends incorporating personal content into marketing strategies at least a few times per year. Advisors do not need to overshare, but occasional personal updates mixed with educational financial content help create a balanced and authentic online presence.
Storytelling helps advisors make emotional connections with their audience while making their content more memorable. Personal stories can communicate values, personality, and expertise in a way that feels more engaging than traditional marketing language.
Many advisors feel uncomfortable writing about themselves, which is why outsourcing content creation can help. Marketing teams can take an advisor’s photos, stories, and bullet points and turn them into polished articles, social posts, newsletters, and email campaigns while maintaining the advisor’s authentic voice.
This case study demonstrates that successful marketing is not just about financial expertise — it is also about human connection. Advisors who combine professional insights with authentic personal content can strengthen relationships, improve engagement, increase website traffic, and stay top-of-mind with both clients and prospects.