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 C2P Enterprises Earns Three Prestigious Awards for Industry Contributions, Rapid Growth and Success

 Recent Accolades Include Inc. 5000 list, Financial Advisor Magazine’s RIA Ranking and ThinkAdvisor’s LUMINARIES

October 28, 2021 – Cleveland – C2P Enterprises, a holding company comprised of four distinct brands, each designed to simplify financial planning for advisors and the clients they serve, has recently received several notable financial advisor awards recognizing its industry contributions, rapid growth and success. C2P Enterprises has been named to Inc. Magazine’s annual Inc. 5000 list of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies. C2P Enterprises subsidiary, Prosperity Capital Advisors, an SEC Registered Investment Adviser (RIA), has earned a spot on Financial Advisor Magazine’s Registered Investment Advisers ranking. And subsidiary Clarity 2 Prosperity, a financial training, coaching and IP development organization, has been named to ThinkAdvisor’s LUMINARIES Class of 2021 for its Bucket Plan Certified^® designation.

“I am incredibly proud of the accomplishments of our team to not only succeed, but to thrive, especially in a year like 2020; these awards represent our continued commitment to helping advisors to always do right by their clients with holistic financial plans,” said Jason L Smith, Founder & CEO, C2P Enterprises. “Each of our subsidiaries strives to simplify financial planning for advisors and the clients they serve through education, training, resources and tools all designed to serve and accomplish clients’ goals. Ultimately, we are helping more families recognize and access the quality of financial advice they deserve.”

C2P Enterprises has experienced three-year revenue growth of 64 percent, and Prosperity Capital Advisors saw a nearly 22 percent annual growth in assets from 2019 to 2020.

Recent accomplishments for Clarity 2 Prosperity include The Bucket Plan^®, a best interest planning process that has been recognized as a proven approach for turning assets into income, became academically recognized after the concept has been incorporated into The American College of Financial Services^® RICP^® curriculum. The Bucket Plan Certified^® (BPC) designation for professionals who master this signature planning process also became recognized by FINRA, an achievement that will continue to expand the firm’s reach and delivery of its mission of simplifying holistic financial planning. Financial professionals that hold the BPC designation possess skillsets representing elevated knowledge as a holistic a holistic financial planning professional and deliver clients a Best Interest Planning Process and customized financial plan in the form of The Bucket Plan.
For more information about C2P Enterprises and its subsidiaries, click here.

 

Inc. 5000 Methodology

Companies on the 2021 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2017 to 2020. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2017. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2020. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2017 is $100,000; the minimum for 2020 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to three decimal places. There was one tie on this year’s Inc. 5000. Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.’s September issue. They represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000, which can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.

Financial Advisor Magazine Methodology

Financial Advisor Magazine’s RIA ranking is an independent listing produced by FA Magazine. Firms must be registered investment advisers and provide financial planning and/or related services to individual clients. Eligible firms must be either independently owned or a freestanding subsidiary of another business and have at least $100 million AUM as of Dec. 31, 2020. Neither the RIA firms nor their employees pay a fee to FA Magazine to be included in the listing. The full list can be found at www.fa-mag.com/research/ria-survey.

ThinkAdvisor LUMINARIES

Members of the Class of 2021 LUMINARIES were selected by a distinguished and diverse panel of judges from across the advice industry, as well as by ThinkAdvisor’s editorial team. LUMINARIES winners will be featured at the program’s inaugural awards dinner which is set to take place Nov. 9 at the Mandarin Oriental in New York. The full list can be found at www.thinkadvisor.com/2021/08/16/meet-the-luminaries-class-of-2021/.

 About C2P Enterprises: C2P Enterprises is a holding company comprised of four distinct brands, each designed to simplify financial planning for advisors and the clients they serve.  United by the vision to provide planning and financial products in the best interest of the client, each company offers education, training, resources and tools to meet a client’s unique financial situation, along with access to an array of investment and insurance vehicles to help accomplish their goals. Each organization is committed to fiduciary best interest practices and training industry standards for a higher qualify of holistic financial planning services to families nationwide and worldwide. For more information, visit www.c2penterprises.com.

Investment advisory services are provided by C2P Capital Advisory Group, LLC d/b/a Prosperity Capital Advisors, LLC (“PCA”) an investment adviser federally registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 

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What really determines happiness for your clients in retirement? A client’s savings may be a great indicator of security. But is their portfolio diversified enough to account for the income they’ll need as well?

In the latest Bucket Plan OnDemand podcast episode, Dave Alison discusses the importance of lifetime income for your clients’ long-term retirement happiness.

Along with Vice President of Clarity Insurance Marketing, Kalem Mackey, and Walter Young of the 5th Option, the three discuss new and important ways to rethink annuities in retirement as a critical piece of a holistic plan.

Don’t Get Excited About Annuities

It’s okay if you’re not excited about annuities. Annuities are not exciting.

Annuities aren’t the exciting part of the portfolio. It’s the foundational piece that we can then add the exciting components to.

Annuities in retirement help to take the sequence of returns risk, the cash flow risk, and the longevity risk off the table so that you can get more comfortable exploring the exciting stuff. It’s not the vehicle itself but what you do with the vehicle. With a lifetime income annuity, there is no worry if interest rates are good or if they’re bad. You’re essentially purchasing a pension for as long as that client’s alive.

Consider the Economic Environment

When considering which products to use in a holistic plan, it’s important to think about the economic environment we’re in.

Walter points out, “The current economic environment is way different than it was 10 years ago, and in 10 years will be different again. And so, we have all these tools at our disposal, and we should not be afraid to use them in the right economic environments.”

Right now, we’re in a low-interest-rate environment, and no one knows if or when that will change.

“Maybe in 20 years, we’ll be having a completely different conversation about annuities, but I think we have to understand that every financial vehicle has a job it can do and that it can be valuable if it’s within a holistic plan.”

Look at Annuities as a Bond Replacement

Especially with where bonds are at right now, lifetime income annuities can be a great replacement for clients looking for more liquidity.

A lifetime income annuity gives you a place to be able to take additional withdrawals without penalty-free or surrender charges, or anything like that. It also gives you value to a rebalancing process if markets get volatile.

“To be able to substitute out a portion of those bonds to put in a lifetime income annuity, I think it just it just works, it’s diversification. It’s not just sticking with this three-asset class portfolio of cash bonds and equities. It’s now looking at offloading some of that bond risk to the insurance company,” says Dave.

Don’t Forget Your Client’s Best Interest

Often, the choice to use annuities in retirement comes down to the way advisors are licensed or how they practice. But Walter points out that it can also be a matter of how advisors get paid.

“A person who’s AUM focused may not want to give dollars up to an annuity because they don’t get paid the same way. And, of course, if you’re insurance-focused, then you think everyone should have annuities.”

This is an opportunity to really put your client first and ask yourself what’s in their best interest. Even if annuities are not to our own benefit, it’s our job to understand all the existing options. So, our clients know all of the relevant information before making a choice. 

“I know there are some advisors out there that may have been burned by certain products or companies in the past. But there’s just so much innovation in the annuity space. The products that are available today are so much more client-centric than they were 10, 15, 20 years ago.”

-Kalem Mackey

To learn more about some of the specific innovations and products, as well as trends and carriers of lifetime income annuities, listen to the full podcast episode here and schedule a call with us today.

Financial Professional Use Only

The information provided in this presentation is not intended as investment advice or legal advice. The information provided is for informational and training purposes only. The information in this presentation was accurate as of the time of the material was created. Tax laws and rulings can frequently change. Please discuss the client’s current situation with an accountant or tax advisor.

Has the virtual sales environment challenged you to find new ways of prospecting and lead nurturing? Are you acquiring leads from any of your digital marketing efforts? And if you are, are you struggling to convert them into clients?

In our latest Rainmaker Multiplier OnDemand podcast episode, Jason L Smith sat down with Robert Sofia, CEO of Snappy Kraken, an automated marketing solution for advisors looking to get and make more meaningful client connections.

Marketing in the financial services space has long been a unique challenge to solve. With the world going mostly online after March 2020, a new set of obstacles was introduced. Advisors had to give up their more traditional, in-person approaches to start developing digital strategies.

A lot of advice started popping up all over the internet – write more blogs, start a podcast, use communication tools like through video. Even if these tactics worked, however, many advisors are still challenged with working them into a complete marketing and lead nurturing strategy. Robert points out that this is the biggest marketing mistake advisors continue to make.

“And when I say complete strategy, what I mean by that is literally an end-to-end process for acquiring new contacts, nurturing those contacts until they’re ready to actually have a meaningful dialogue with you like an appointment or a real conversation, and then a sales process for converting them into clients.”

Nurturing contacts seems to be a step that’s particularly challenging for advisors, but unless all your new clients are coming to you via referrals, this step could be the most important to reconceptualize and re-strategize for an effective marketing strategy. Below are six actionable steps you can take, as discussed in this week’s podcast.

Stop Thinking Tactically

Many advisors tend to think tactically. Pre-COVID, the main tactic for getting new clients was seminars and workshops. Not surprisingly, when the ability to fill seminars and workshops went away, the solution for many was to brainstorm replacement tactics.

Robert explains, “The tendency is to think tactically, like, ‘Oh, I heard I should be doing more video.’ So they start doing video. Or, ‘I heard I should do a podcast,’ so they do a podcast… but not thinking about where those things fit in that overall strategy, which audience they’re right for, at which phase of that journey, etc.”

Many advisors end up with a very disconnected marketing strategy with a lot of gaps. This can hurt your nurturing efforts with new contacts because it does not translate as a cohesive, end-to-end process. New contacts need clear direction and a focused stream of incoming information based on where they are in their specific journey.

 Adjust Your Expectations

If the biggest marketing mistake is failing to have a complete strategy, then the next is the expectations advisors set around the outcomes of that strategy. Especially for advisors who are used to living off referrals or packing large rooms for in-person seminars, the slower pace of digital nurturing can make you feel impatient and even, initially, hopeless.

Robert explains, “When you’re dealing with the modern buyer, the modern consumer, the modern investor, and the way they do business, and the level of effort and contact that has to happen to build trust over time and convert, the reality of that is much different than what a lot of advisors think.”

Consumers these days have access to more information and more options than ever. That means the process of standing out, gaining trust, and closing a client will often take more than one or two meetings.

Use Online Marketing to Build Longer-Term Trust

With digital marketing, don’t just adjust your expectations around longer-term nurturing, use it to your advantage. Consumers go online looking for answers to specific questions. Advisors who are in touch with consumers’ pain points can leverage those pain points to anticipate the kinds of solutions potential new clients will be seeking.

When framed properly, advisors can drive more new contacts to their digital content. With the right “magnets” they can get them opted into a process where you now have a chance to build credibility and trust over time. As people start acclimating to your content as their go-to resource for solutions, that will only increase their desire and their need to work with you.

According to Robert, “people with significant wealth are also slower to trust. And that’s why referrals work so well, there’s trust there. But if it’s cold, you have to be able to build that trust successfully in an automated fashion online.”

Automate Your Marketing

Once you’ve started building your collection of digital resources, you’ll want to get those resources in front of potential new clients as consistently and as often as possible. Some prospects who are further along in their journey may convert after just one or two emails. However, effective nurturing of prospects who aren’t even sure of their needs could require more and longer-term exposure.

Working with a company like Snappy Kraken, advisors can strategize a nurturing approach that accounts for all the most critical questions you need to ask yourself, but may not know how to answer: How do I segment my audiences? Which content should go to which audience, and when? What is the right delivery method and cadence? Etc.

Once you determine your lead nurturing strategy, Snappy Kraken will help you automate the execution as well. One of the challenges of digital marketing for advisors is how complex and time-consuming it can become. Marketing automation eliminates that concern.

Have a CRM

The success of an automated marketing plan relies on the amount and the quality of the contacts you are getting. You can’t nurture leads if you don’t have any leads to nurture.

For advisors who don’t have a robust database of leads already, Snappy Kraken can help you build out your contacts. However, even for advisors who do, Snappy Kraken can still help you handle those leads more meaningfully and efficiently.

An effective lead nurturing campaign requires an organized management system that tracks contacts at each step of their journey. A brand-new contact will have different needs than a contact you’ve already been nurturing for a few months. Likewise, a contact who comes to you via a blog post may be at a different point in their journey than one who has already paid for and attended a workshop or seminar.

A quality automated financial marketing strategy will rely on the kind of organization that only a sophisticated CRM can provide.

Have a Proven Process

When strategizing lead nurturing content for your prospects, make sure your own value-add is always front and center. Blog posts, podcasts, and emails are great opportunities to share your knowledge around consumers’ specific pain points and questions. But think bigger too. Showcase how your expertise is different and how the experience of working with you will be different.

Perhaps the biggest reason clients don’t move forward with advisors is uncertainty. When you are nurturing prospects, you can build trust by showing them that your planning process works.

The Bucket Plan is a proven, turnkey financial planning process for holistically gathering data, documenting findings, and delivering asset-positioning strategies in your clients’ best interests. The Bucket Plan differentiates your business from other advisors’ businesses. But it also helps your prospects understand their path and the progress they’re going to make as you take them through your financial planning process.

To learn more, listen to the podcast here and schedule a call with us today.

Financial Professional Use Only

The information provided in this presentation is not intended as investment advice or legal advice. The information provided is for informational and training purposes only. The information in this presentation was accurate as of the time of the material was created. Tax laws and rulings can frequently change. Please discuss the client’s current situation with an accountant or tax advisor.