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So the firm's site gets one page. A headshot, a paragraph, a phone number, a couple of initials after your name. Everything that would help a prospect decide is left off because somebody assumed it would be a problem. Your process, your philosophy, who you serve and how you are paid can all be described without a performance figure anywhere near them. It is the absence of all of it that loses the prospect.
Fee-only, fee-based and commission are three different arrangements, and two of those names sound identical to someone reading on a phone. If your site does not state how you are compensated — hourly, a flat planning fee, a percentage of assets under management, or some mix — the prospect fills the gap with whatever they were warned about. One honest page on compensation ends that question before the first call.
Referrals still drive this business, but the handoff is now a name typed into a phone on the drive home. They look for your firm, your credentials, your ADV brochure, and whether anything has been updated this decade. A bio page on a broker-dealer template tells them nothing. A dead link tells them something worse.
You may do almost nothing but equity compensation work for senior engineers, or pre-retirement planning for federal employees with FERS and TSP decisions in front of them. The prospect in exactly that situation is searching those words tonight. If the only page about you is a general bio, you are up against every generalist in the state instead of being the obvious answer for the fifty people who need your specialty.
The consideration cycle here is longer than almost anywhere else in local business. A pre-retiree can read an advisor's site on and off for a year — between market headlines and a birthday that suddenly matters — before asking for a first meeting. They are not collecting quotes. They are deciding whether they would hand this person their rollover, and they do that slowly, in private, usually on a phone.
What they check is predictable. Credentials first: whether CFP, CFA or ChFC actually appears, and what each one took to earn. Then how you are paid. Then the account minimum. Then Form ADV Part 2, because the brochure is public and more prospects read it than advisors expect. Many look you up on BrokerCheck or the IAPD before they ever load your site, then come back to see whether your own words match what they found. They also want to know who holds the money — that assets sit at a custodian and not with you is reassuring, and almost nobody bothers to say it.
The last question is newer, and it comes up constantly with solo and two-person firms: what happens if something happens to you. A prospect in their sixties is hiring someone for the next twenty years. A short, honest paragraph about continuity — a succession agreement, a named partner, a plan on file — settles a worry they may be too polite to raise out loud, and its absence quietly removes small firms from the list.
Fee-only, fee-based or commission, stated plainly, with the structure named: hourly, flat-fee planning, a percentage of assets, or a combination. The prospect who understands your compensation before the call arrives already half-qualified.
A clear link to your brochure, not buried three clicks into a footer. Prospects who go looking for it and come up empty draw their own conclusion. You supply the current document or link and tell us where it goes; we place it.
CFP, CFA, ChFC, EA — each with a line on what it required. Half the value of a credential is that a prospect can tell it apart from a title anybody can have printed on a business card.
Retirement income planning, Roth conversion analysis, equity compensation and RSU work, business owner planning. People search the problem they have, not the profession they need, so a page per problem is how they land on you.
Physicians in their first years of practice, owners approaching a sale, federal employees, widows managing money alone for the first time, couples five years out from retiring. A named client type does more for a small firm than any amount of general language.
What the first meeting covers, what you need them to bring, what they walk away with, and what the ongoing relationship looks like after that. Not knowing the shape of the engagement is the most common reason a prospect never books.
Where the assets are actually held, and whether you work to an account minimum. Both answers save calls on each side, and both read as confidence.
What happens to clients if you become unavailable. Prospects now ask solo advisors this directly, and having the answer already written beats improvising it across a conference table.
Turning a 401(k), an IRA and Social Security into a monthly paycheck that holds up for decades. Which account to draw from first, and in what order, is a question most people have never had to answer before.
Looking at whether moving money from a traditional IRA into a Roth makes sense in a given year, and how much. The stretch between the last paycheck and required distributions is usually where this gets decided.
RSUs, ISOs, non-qualified options, an employee stock purchase plan, and a concentrated position in one employer. Vesting dates, holding periods, and how much of a household's net worth is riding on a single ticker.
What claiming at 62, at full retirement age, or at 70 actually looks like for a couple rather than an individual. Spousal and survivor rules change the answer more often than people expect them to.
Building and maintaining a portfolio against a written plan, with rebalancing, asset location and tax-aware trading handled on your behalf. Reviews on a set schedule instead of whenever the news gets loud.
FERS, TSP fund elections, the survivor benefit decision and FEHB coverage in retirement. Federal retirements run on their own rulebook, and some of those elections cannot be taken back later.
Entity structure, retirement plan choices, and what a sale would mean for the owner personally rather than on the balance sheet. The year before a transaction is when most of this work has to already be done.
Student loan strategy, 403(b) and 457 decisions, own-occupation disability coverage, and the first years when income climbs faster than habits do. Choices made early here set the next thirty years.
529 plans, what they actually cover, and how to pay for college without borrowing against a retirement that is closer than it looks. Including what becomes of the account if the plan changes.
Checking that beneficiary designations, account titling and trust language all match the plan on paper. Done alongside your attorney and CPA rather than in place of either of them.
Consolidating accounts, reviewing income, and taking decisions one at a time for someone handling the money alone for the first time. No invented deadlines.
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| Who builds the pages | We do. You send your bio, credentials, fee language and specialties; we lay out the site. | You do, in an editor, after you work out what goes where. |
| Disclosure and ADV pages | We place the disclosure text, ADV link and notices exactly as your firm words them. | You build and position them yourself in the editor. |
| Compliance review | Yours to run. We build what you send; your firm or CCO reviews the copy. | Yours to run, on copy you also had to write. |
| What the price covers | $25 a month or $250 a year, including the domain name, hosting and support. | A plan fee, with the domain and extras usually billed separately. |
| Making a change | Send us the new paragraph or a revised brochure link and we update it. | Log in, find the block, edit it, publish it, check it on a phone. |
| Trial | 30 days free on a yoursite.buildernow.net address; custom domain on the paid plan. | Free tiers vary, and a custom domain is normally a paid add-on. |
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BrightLocal, 2026The next prospect who hears your name is going to look you up that evening, on a phone, in the ten minutes before bed. What they find decides whether you get a first meeting or get filed under maybe.
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