Financial services marketing · MDC® System

The Digital Marketing Agency for Financial Services That Books Real Meetings

Finance is bought on trust and sold in a meeting. We put lenders, brokers and financial planners in front of the business owners and decision makers who need them, inside your compliance rules.

✓3rd party data on owners, CFOs & directors
✓Separate campaigns for finance & advice
✓Webinar and email nurture for planners
✓Every ad signed off by your compliance team
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Who this is for

Four financial services businesses, four different sales

“Financial services” covers firms that sell very different things to very different people. A digital marketing agency for financial services has to start by working out which sale you’re making.

Commercial & business lending

Working capital, commercial property and business acquisition finance. Sold to owners and CFOs, usually when a growth move or a deal needs funding.

Equipment & asset finance

Vehicles, machinery and fit-outs. Often triggered by a purchase already in motion, so suppliers and dealers are part of the sale.

Financial planning & advice

Ongoing advice relationships with individuals and business owners. A long, trust-heavy decision with fees paid every year.

Specialist & B2B financial services

Invoice finance, payments, treasury and services sold to finance teams. A classic B2B sale with several people involved.

The lead problem

Why finance marketing brings in rate-shoppers

1

Rate-led ads attract rate-led buyers

Lead with the lowest rate and you get people who will leave for a lower one. For most brokers and advisers, the value is in the advice and the structuring, not the rate.

2

Compliance makes ads bland

When every claim needs approval, many firms default to safe, generic ads that look like everyone else’s. Specific problems can be talked about without making promises.

3

Trust takes more than one click

Nobody hands over their financials after one ad. Without follow-up between enquiry and meeting, a good lead goes quiet and signs with someone else.

Business finance buyers

The people behind a business finance decision

For lenders, brokers and B2B finance providers, we use 3rd party B2B data to reach each of these roles by job title and industry, with a message built for what they care about.

The finance decision
Funding, structure and who they trust to arrange it
Decides

Owners raising finance

Care about speed, certainty and not having their time wasted. They want to know you understand their industry and their deal.

Runs the numbers

CFOs comparing structures

Compare structures and terms in detail. They want clear information, quick answers and a provider who makes reporting easy.

Refers

Accountants

Often the first to know a client needs finance. A finance provider their clients have had a good experience with gets the next referral.

Refers

Dealers & suppliers

Equipment, vehicle and fit-out suppliers whose customers need finance to buy. A reliable finance partner helps them close their own sales.

Financial planners

Financial planner marketing: one long conversation

If you’re looking for a financial planner marketing agency, this is the part for you. An advice relationship starts long before the first meeting, so the campaign is built to earn trust over weeks, not to grab a form fill.

Who

Choose the client you want more of

Business owners planning an exit, professionals with complex tax and super, or people approaching retirement. One audience per campaign, with a message about the decision they’re facing.

Education

Lead with a webinar or guide

A short webinar or plain-English guide on the decision in front of them. It shows how you think and lets people get to know you before booking time with an adviser.

Nurture

An email flow that builds trust

Registrants move into an email sequence with useful general information and an invitation to book a first meeting when they’re ready.

Qualify

Fit before the first meeting

The booking form asks what they need help with and how they prefer to work, so advisers spend their time with people who suit your service model and fees.

Partners

Accountants and family lawyers

A separate campaign to the professionals who see your future clients first. See how we approach accountants and family lawyers as audiences.

Transferable example · Unity Online

The webinar funnel we built for a Sydney school

Unity Grammar, a well-established school in Sydney’s west with around 1,000 students, launched a new online program opening to years 7 and 8 and needed a marketing strategy to bring students in at scale. It’s education, not finance, but the funnel is the one we’d adapt for a planning practice.

Built

2 landing pages

Two high-converting landing pages used for the advertising campaigns.

Ran

Meta Ads

Meta campaigns that brought in leads at a cost of around $6 per lead.

Nurtured

Webinar email flow

Leads funnelled into a webinar email flow, custom designed in-house by the ALVI+AD team.

Connected

CRM for follow-up

Landing page and Meta leads integrated into Mailchimp CRM so Unity’s team could contact people individually.

Before you compare: the ~$6 per lead is Unity’s education result. Finance audiences behave differently, and we wouldn’t promise any particular cost per lead before testing. Read the Unity Online case study →

Compliance-safe creative

Specific enough to stand out, careful enough to approve

Financial services advertising is regulated, and your licensee or compliance team has the final say. We write creative that talks about real problems without promising returns or giving advice.

What we lead with

The problem they recognise

✓The decision in front of them: a purchase, a sale, retirement, a cash flow gap
✓How you work, what a first meeting involves and how fees work
✓Your people on camera, in your office
✓General information, clearly labelled as general
What we leave out

Anything that sounds like a promise

✕Projected returns or “guaranteed” outcomes
✕Advice that depends on someone’s personal situation
✕Headline rates that hide the conditions
✕Anything your compliance team hasn’t signed off
FAQ

Before you hire a financial services marketing agency

The questions finance firms and planners ask us most.

What does a digital marketing agency for financial services do?

For us, it means picking the clients you want more of, researching the problems behind their finance decisions, then running targeted ads, focused landing pages and follow-up that turn them into booked meetings. We use 3rd party B2B data to reach business owners and finance decision makers by role and industry, and report on qualified enquiries and meetings, not clicks.

How do financial planners get more clients online?

By building trust before asking for a meeting. A webinar or guide on a specific decision, followed by an email sequence and an easy way to book, usually works better than a “free consultation” ad on its own. A separate campaign to accountants and family lawyers adds a referral channel alongside it.

How do you handle compliance on finance ads?

We write ads and pages as general information, avoid return projections and promises, and nothing goes live until your licensee or compliance team has approved it. We build approval time into the creative schedule, so compliance doesn’t become the bottleneck.

Can you target business owners for commercial lending and finance broking?

Yes. We use 3rd party B2B data to build audiences of business owners, directors and finance managers by industry, then run creative about the finance problems that industry actually has. Our B2B marketing page explains how that targeting works.

Is Google Ads worth it for financial services?

For high-intent searches, it can be, but finance keywords are competitive and attract rate-shoppers. We usually combine targeted Meta campaigns to chosen decision makers with tightly focused search campaigns on the specific services you most want to sell.

Do you work with insurance brokers too?

Yes. Insurance brokers sell to many of the same business owners, but around renewal dates. See our page on insurance digital marketing.

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