MARKETING FOR UK FINANCIAL PLANNERS, IFAS AND EXPAT ADVISERS

    Marketing for financial planners. Stop relying only on referrals. Get found by the clients you're best at helping.

    I build your marketing system together with you, in your own voice, so the right clients beyond your network can find you and start a conversation.

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    Built around FCA rules and Consumer Duty. Your firm signs off every post.

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    Maria Björk, marketing consultant for UK financial planners and IFAs
    Maria Björk. Brand engineer for UK and expat financial planners.

    200+ financial planners have built a stronger online presence.

    The hardest part isn't the advice. It's being seen.

    Referrals only reach the people your current clients already know.

    Limited reach

    When you do post, it often sounds generic. Or you second-guess it and delete it before anyone sees it.

    Second-guessing every post

    Good advice shouldn't lose to louder, weaker marketing.

    Quiet when you should be heard

    AI is splitting advice in two.

    There's the advice that comes out of a spreadsheet. AI can now produce an average version of it in seconds.

    And there's the advice that comes out of a conversation. Human judgement. The widow staring at pension paperwork 3 weeks after the funeral.

    The cheaper the first half gets, the more valuable the second becomes.

    That's why AI only comes in after your real voice and positioning are defined. It multiplies you. It never replaces you.

    So we use AI for the first half, and make sure you're known for the second.

    Letters from planners.

    “She really focused on understanding me, my goals and my audience.”

    Henry Rutherford

    Financial planners from the UK, the US, Spain, Italy, the Cayman Islands, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Middle East have transformed their practices with this methodology.

    My experience of working with Maria has been transformational to my business! She's given me a clear strategy to follow so I know exactly what I need to do every day to reach my goals. I generate so many of my own leads that I run out of time each day. Cannot recommend Maria highly enough!
    Nicole Sandler
    Nicole Sandler
    Australian Financial Planner
    Spain
    Maria supported me tremendously with a number of early interventions that helped to accelerate my company's marketing and in particular, my firm's LinkedIn presence: a strategic and structured approach to generating and curating tailored, non-AI content; a much clearer understanding of different types of materials and marketing approaches; and a clear, disciplined process for sharing content and eliciting engagement with it. Maria's help went above and beyond a simple service provider, and her warmth and genuine support were truly valued and sometimes much-needed — it's not easy being an entrepreneur, and having good support can make all the difference between working hard and working smart!
    Duncan Butler-Wheelhouse
    Duncan Butler-Wheelhouse
    Independent Financial Planner
    United Kingdom
    Maria has helped me transform my online presence and tailor it to my ideal client audience. She really focused on understanding me, my goals and my audience. Maria has a dedication to see her clients succeed — I would encourage anyone looking to build their online presence. I'm positive this won't be the last time we work together!
    Henry Rutherford
    Henry Rutherford
    Chartered Financial Planner
    United Kingdom

    What the clients say about the results of us working together.

    Same topic. Different firm.

    Generic AIIn your voice

    Last week a client asked me if she could afford to stop working at 58. We didn't start with her pension. We started with what she'd do on a Tuesday morning.

    In today's fast-paced financial landscape, planning for retirement has never been more important! Here are 5 tips to secure your future...

    Illustrative example.

    Visibility isn't vanity.

    31,000
    financial advisers in the UK
    9%
    of UK adults get regulated financial advice
    15%
    fewer advice firms since 2021

    With the FCA's new targeted support rules now live, the advice gap is about to get noisier.

    When someone finally decides they want advice, many start with a search and the names they already remember. Even your referrals check you first.

    A referral opens the door. Your LinkedIn decides whether they walk through it.

    Source. FCA financial adviser market survey, April 2026.

    Your marketing should carry your voice, not mine.

    I know how hard it is to market a profession built on trust. Every post feels like a compliance risk, and every template sounds like someone else.

    I've spent 8 years working only with financial planners, IFAs and paraplanners, in the UK and abroad. My work is to find the voice already inside your firm and build it into a system you own.

    Not experienced financial planner. Something with a face on it.

    8+years building marketing systems for planners

    200+financial planners worked with worldwide

    11,000UK planners in my network

    UK + Globalworkflows designed around FCA rules and built to travel

    Built once. Yours to keep.

    01

    Find your voice.

    Clarify your strengths, best-fit clients and natural way of speaking.

    So you attract the right people.

    02

    Build your system.

    Your content system, LinkedIn presence and AI assistants trained on your voice and compliance boundaries. Everything is built to be owned by you.

    So you never start from a blank page.

    03

    Turn visibility into conversations.

    Messaging and follow-up that move the right people forward.

    So the right people actually book calls.

    Everything we build is yours to keep.

    Shaped around your firm. A sole planner and a team of 9 need different things. We build around your goals, your clients and your vision.

    One fixed fee. Yours to keep.

    Individual planners

    From £2,500

    Your Brand Compass, your AI assistants trained on your voice, your LinkedIn, content and messaging. Built together, yours to keep.

    What's included

    • Brand Compass, your voice, story and best-fit clients
    • LinkedIn and social media profile optimisation
    • Your content plan and content pillars
    • AI assistants trained on your voice, with compliance guardrails built in
    • Messaging and follow-up for client conversations
    • Support while you put it into practice

    Firm programmes

    From £5,000

    Shaped around the size of your team, your goals and your vision.

    What's included

    • Everything in the individual programme, for each planner
    • One shared brand story for your firm
    • AI guidelines and a prompt library for your team
    • A weekly workflow and review process your compliance team can sign off
    • A repeatable testimonial process
    • Group and 1 to 1 sessions, recorded
    A diverse team of financial planners, each with their own personality and experience

    We work with every planner in your firm individually. We update their LinkedIn and social media profiles, define their best-fit clients and build their own marketing system. Every planner has their own personality and experience, so they attract different clients. That diversity wins your firm more of the right people.

    You pay once and the system is yours. No monthly retainer, and no agency renting your voice back to you.

    One fixed fee. Pay in full or in instalments. We'll find what works for your firm on your Clarity Call.

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    All prices in GBP, excluding VAT where applicable.

    Not sure which fits? That's what the call is for.

    What it sounds like when it works.

    Real messages from planners I've worked with, and from the people who found them.

    After following you for a while here on LinkedIn, I get a strong sense that I should start seriously thinking about financial planning for my family. What's the best way to schedule a call with you?
    A prospect writing to a financial planner
    In the past I have declined 100% of all connection requests from financial advisors. Yours is the first ever I accept because I looked at your profile and read your articles.
    A company COO writing to a financial planner
    I am honestly now getting multiple enquiries each day without even sending an offer message.
    A financial planner
    I've gotten 3 messages for meeting requests. None of these people were sent the offer. You've given me a great platform to work off of!
    A financial planner, to Maria on WhatsApp
    Visibility is only the start. The point is conversations with the right clients.

    Real messages, shared with permission. Every firm's results are different.

    Built around the rules you already work under.

    Every post sits under the FCA's financial promotion rules and Consumer Duty. I've spent 8 years working inside them with IFAs, Chartered Financial Planners and paraplanners.

    So compliance is built in from the start, not checked at the end. Your firm's approval process stays exactly where it is. You review every post. Your compliance team signs it off.

    Fewer rewrites. Fewer awkward conversations.

    Advising expats abroad? The same discipline travels with you.

    I'm a marketer, not a lawyer or compliance adviser. The final word on any promotion is always your firm's.

    In 5 years there'll be 2 kinds of firm under the same label.

    One

    Cheap, automated and indistinguishable.

    The other

    Known by name, for something real.

    Pick which one you're building. Then build it on purpose.

    Everything you need to know.

    Yes. I've worked only with financial planners, IFAs and paraplanners for 8 years. I know suitability reports, client reviews, Consumer Duty and how your compliance sign-off works, so you don't have to explain your world to me.

    That's the most common worry I hear. Your marketing system is built around the FCA's financial promotion rules and Consumer Duty from the start, and your firm signs off every post. I'm a marketer, not a lawyer or compliance adviser, so the final word always stays with your firm.

    Both. I work with sole planners and with advice firms of up to around 10 advisers, and shape the work around your team, your goals and your vision. Individual planners start from £2,500 and firm programmes from £5,000.

    Yes. I've worked with UK and US planners serving expats in Spain, Italy, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Middle East and beyond. The rules are often lighter, but the brand voice problem is the same.

    Referrals are the strongest form of marketing, and this system makes them work harder. When prospects look you up, they'll find a voice that confirms what their friend told them. You won't lose warm prospects because your online presence doesn't match the person they were told about.

    You'll need a handful of focused setup sessions to build your Brand compass. Once the system is running, allow about 30 minutes a day to review and approve your content. The system handles the drafting and structure so you don't have to.

    No, generic AI content is what makes every firm sound the same. AI multiplies a good system, but it can't create one.

    The Brand compass work takes weeks, not months, and once it's in place, content production becomes faster and more confident. Visibility builds over months as your voice becomes recognisable. Every firm's pace is different.

    Yes, if you're a UK or US trained financial planner serving expat clients. The methodology travels, and while the compliance overlay is lighter abroad, the brand voice and visibility challenges are the same. Most of my international clients are in Spain, Italy, the UAE, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands.

    An agency rents you its voice, and when you stop paying, it stops talking. I build a system you keep, including your Brand compass document, workflows and AI prompts. Your firm owns everything we build.

    The next chapter

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    Let's see if we're a good fit.

    Your advice is already good. The goal is an online presence that matches it.

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