Social Media At Work, At Work, At Work - Leading Advisor

Here’s an example of Social Media at work, at work, at work.

If you have been reading, you will know that I qualified for the top 20 candidates in Advisor.ca’s ‘Name That Visionary Contest’: Who are the Top Ten leaders in the industry today?

Click here to read the broadcast/approach that I sent to my E-Newsletter readers to help me to qualify along with these esteemed individuals;

Please click here to cast your vote.

My current thinking is the Visionary Contest can also demonstrate the power and the use of grass roots social media as one would expect it would be no contest for Canada’s Minister Of Finance or the Governor of The Bank Of Canada to be the winners just picking two of the examples … and hats off to them with Canada being rated as having one of the best financial systems in the world.

As an experiment, I am thinking of using Out Of The Box Social Media Marketing and here is an example.

We sent out the Advisor.ca ‘Name That Visionary Contest’ E-Mail to my E-Newsletter readers on Friday which was automatically posted to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. I’m very thankful for the response from clients that go back into the 90’s. One reader, not a client, someone that I don’t believe that I’ve talked to personally replied; It’s my pleasure Simon, you’ve helped my career, and good luck!

I’m friends with Bart Wisniowski and Loic Jeanjean with AdvisorWebsites and they work exclusively with Financial Advisors and Investment Advisors.

I received this LinkedIn Network Update from Loic; “vote casted!”

This got me thinking and I e-mailed Loic with;

From: Simon Reilly
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 7:57 AM
To: Loic Jeanjean
Subject: Thanks for the vote! Have a great week!

Hi Loic,

This is a long shot request.

Would it be too much to ask to request that you re-post this in your blog? https://leadingadvisor.com/name-that-visionary/

What is in for you?

You could write a brief introduction that this is a demonstration of the power of social networking and that clients are voting with their fingers and that anyone can create visibility with some effort and that I got nominated because of this.

Best regards,

Simon

Here is Loic’s Reply;

From: Loic Jeanjean
Sent: September-27-10 10:22 AM
To: Simon Reilly
Subject: RE: Thanks for the vote! Have a great week!

Hi Simon,

Not a problem. Glad I can help.

By the way, one of our guy’s is going to contact you in the next few days and ask you if you want to answer a few questions about marketing/sales ideas for financial advisors.

We are putting a little book together with all our blog posts and are looking for industry leaders in Canada and the USA to share tips with our future readers.

Kind Regards,

Loic Jeanjean

Then I sent this reply;

From: Simon Reilly
Sent: September-27-10 10:25 AM
To: ‘Loic Jeanjean’
Subject: RE: Thanks for the vote! Have a great week!

Thanks Loic – I have some very good articles on this to share. Happy to help. Simon

Then my thinking took it to the next level thinking that I would write a draft Blog that Loic could “cut and paste / edit to his liking” to send to the readers of AdvisorWebsites’s Blog;

Draft Blog – Advisor.ca’s ‘Name That Visionary Contest’

Simon Reilly of Leading Advisor asked me to post this Blog and to ask you for your vote in Advisor.ca’s ‘Name That Visionary Contest’: Who are the Top Ten leaders in the industry today?

Simon is a financial and investment advisor coach, speaker and writer and has used is hard work and social media to qualify in the top 20 candidates in Advisor.ca’s ‘Name That Visionary Contest’: Who are the Top Ten leaders in the industry today?

Click here to read the broadcast/approach that Simon has posted in his Blog and sent to his E-Newsletter readers to help him to qualify along with these esteemed individuals;

Karin Mizgala & Sheila Walkington