Hyper Pony Studio

Owner

North Square Investments

Digital Marketing Consultant

FortéOne

Fractional CMO | Chief Marketing Officer

Ariel Investments

C.S. McKee

UX Collective

Contributing Writer

MAQTOOB

Digital Bootcamp

Instructor

The Simons Group

Senior Designer

👑 Web, Marketing, & Design Expert for Advisory and Consulting Firms 👑 Websites driven by marketing expertise 👉 hyperponystudio.com

👋 Hi I'm Manda!

Follow me and ring my 🔔 if you're in the financial services industry and want to learn more about:

👉 Marketing persuasion techniques 
👉 Writing copy that converts
👉 Attracting potential clients
👉 Turning those prospects into clients
👉 Professionally presenting your brand 
👉 Attracting your ideal clients
👉 Creating an EFFECTIVE website
👉 Establishing trust and building authority

🔻 🔻 🔻 Want to work together? 🔻 🔻 🔻

For advisory and investment firms:
🔹 Complete brand, website, & marketing overhauls
🔹 Ongoing marketing and fractional CMO services
🔹 Deep-dive website audits

For independent financial advisors:
🔹 Deep-dive website audits
🔹 Web and marketing flash audits
🔹 Ignite Your Site course coming soon!

Learn more, view samples of my work, or start your project at hyperponystudio.com!

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Hyper Pony Studio 
Digital marketing for the financial services industry

Manda Szewczyk

While everyone else is hurrying to add AI to their platforms, this is the message I received when I clicked the chat/help option on the app I use for my proposals:

"Don't worry, we don't use AI, bots or canned replies. Just 3 guys in different parts of the world ready to help you use Better Proposals."

What a relief! Thank you Better Proposals!!

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🤔 So what's the lesson here?

If you're doing something different (or something better) SAY IT.

Don't expect people to notice on their own.

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👋 Hi I'm Manda - I share Tiny Tweaks to help financial advisors improve their marketing and level-up their websites.

👑 Websites & Marketing Overhauls for Financial Advisors & RIAs 👉 Sharing digital marketing tips

I'm noticing some disturbing behavior on Linkedin.

I've been away for a while, and I'm longing for the days when all there was to complain about was pitch-slapping in the DMs.

Here are some new LI tactics that I'm NOT loving...

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🙄 People selling their services in the comments section of my posts

Not just chiming in or offering anything useful, but literally saying, "These are the services I offer" – like a little ad in the comments. Most of them are other marketers or web designers.

Not cool.

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🤨 Adding me to their email newsletter list just because I accepted their connection request

Um, I agreed to connect. Not subscribe! As soon as someone does this, I lose all trust in them and their business tactics.

Unsubscribe. Unfollow. Goodbye.

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😡 Sending me calendar invites when we've never communicated before

This one is the WORST! I'm getting meetings on my calendar and in Zoom from people I've NEVER met!! Some of them are for webinars, some are demos, some are pitches – but NONE of them are with people I've ever met or talked to.

What the actual...???

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I get it. Building a business is hard. But come on!!

Have you experienced any of this? Or is it just me?

Quick tip for anyone creating a video. 

Take a pause every now and then, look at the camera, and smile. 

Because at some point, someone is going to have to go through that video and find a nice screenshot to use as an overlay. 

And, if you never stopped to smile, you're not going to like the options.

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🛼 Hi I'm Manda - I share Tiny Tweaks to help financial advisors improve their marketing and level-up their websites.

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My least favorite part of Halloween? The commercials.

Even as an adult, ads for scary movies freak me out. 

As a kid? I'd have nightmares for weeks.

I don't like the images or the sounds – it messes with my nervous system.

And I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Why isn't there a law against showing ads for R-rated movies during G- or PG-rated programming?

I'd like to be able to opt out of the horror category in my streaming services too.

I know lots of people love those movies and that's great - but they're just not for me.

Anyone know who I can talk to about this?

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BTW, my favorite part of Halloween? Half off candy the next day! I'm also a fan of toddlers dressed as Care Bears and older kids who make their own costumes. I always give extra candy for home-made creativity 🎃

What's your favorite/least favorite part of Halloween?

This is a rare post for the non-advisors who follow me.

One of my clients wrote a book, and for today, it's only 99 cents if you order the Kindle version. 

Here are some of the things you'll find inside:

👉 Why the “4 percent rule” and other retirement myths could be sabotaging your future

👉 The Three Tax Buckets strategy that gives you control over your retirement income

👉 How to create a “retirement paycheck” that feels like real income rather than raiding savings

👉 Dynamic Income Planning with guardrails that adapt as your life evolves

👉 Why most estate plans fail, especially after the SECURE Act, and how to fix yours

It's a book about retirement, written for people who want to do their best to avoid mistakes and set themselves up for success – and who don't enjoy reading financial novels. This one is short, actionable, and free of financial jargon. 

If it sounds interesting, search for "From Work to What’s Next: Designing a Life you Don’t Want to Retire From" on Amazon, and choose the Kindle version.

All three of these tweaks come from real samples I found on a professionally designed advisor website.

Take a look and let me know which is your favorite, and if you're planning to make any of these changes to your own site.

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🐙 Hi I'm Manda - I share Tiny Tweaks to help financial advisors improve their marketing and level-up their websites.

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U.S. Financial Services, LLC

Your time is much to valuable to be reading through a list of services and what I've done so let's get right to it.

What you want to know is if I can help you live the way you want and retire into a life on your terms.

Clients I work with have savings and investments.

Have created a lot of success in their life.

But they still worry:
-Do I have enough?
-Will it last?
-Can I go on that extra trip?
-Can I leave that job/business behind?

Sound familiar?

The first step in creating an ideal life is understanding where you are today.

That starts with asking and answering some questions
-Where are you today? What do you have and what do you want.
-Where do you want to be?  What do you need to do that will allow you to have that life you want.
-Figure out how to get there - Outline the steps needed today and tomorrow to take you from where you are to where you want to be.

Once you know
-What you have
-The problems you have
-The solutions you need

Then you will have the guidelines for how to build the life you want.


Securities offered through Kestra Investment Services, LLC (Kestra IS), member FINRA/SIPC. Investment advisory services offered through Kestra Advisory Services, LLC (Kestra AS), an affiliate of Kestra IS. U.S. Financial Services, LLC is not affiliated with Kestra IS or Kestra AS.

This profile is published for residents of the United States only. Registered Representatives of Kestra IS and Investment Advisor Representatives of Kestra AS may only conduct business with residents of the states and jurisdictions in which they are properly registered. For additional information, please contact Kestra IS Compliance Department at 844-553-7872. www.finra.org and www.sipc.org

Financial Advisor

Merrill Lynch

The next step I made was joining a financial advisors team. I took any available next step towards becoming a financial advisor.

I worked with clients in the same capacity as the advisors on the team:

Reviewed portfolios and recommended investments.

Built financial plans and help bring on new clients.

Then made sure that current clients felt that their plans were updated with their lives and that they received the service they needed to keep their lives on track with their goals.

Registered Client Associate

Starting out on the path to becoming a financial advisor 

I thought it wouldn't make sense going straight into the role as I had just graduated college 

And I wanted to become the go to person any client could rely on to care for their retirement as well as get them to the point they wished to be.

In this role I was able to work with financial advisors and their clients to trade many different

Stocks, bonds and options to help them grow and protect their portfolios

I learned from the ground up in many aspects of the business.

Since I was working with financial advisors and clients everyday I was able to become part of the training team for new financial advisors and employees in general.

Helped the management team oversee 60+ client associates which in turn provided me an understanding of what it took to run a business with employees

Market trade corrections and fixing margin calls were part of my everyday activities to ensure clients were getting what they expected.

While completing all of these daily I had three straight years of flawless bi-annual audit results and achieved the highest possible annual review rating

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Financial Advisor - Virtual or In-Person - Financial Planning - Guiding you through a simple three step process to prepare for the future while enjoying today.

The About You Section: Questions to start:
● What do you want?
● Where are you today?
● Where do you want to be in the future?
● How are you going to get there?
● What does your ideal life look like?

Answering these questions is a challenging task.

But you don't have to do it alone.

I help busy professionals create their work free life

Quit the rat race

And plan your victory lap

Retirement means something different to everyone - Run your race your way

It all starts with a plan
● Your plan is based on what you want and where you want to go.
● Investments are a piece but not the whole picture
● Know your cash flow to see your life today and how your situation works in the future
● Protect yourself and your family from the unknown

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐨 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐈𝐧 𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐞
● Office Number - 973-882-3600 
● Email - EDrury@usfsc.com

A little bit about me:
● Travel Enthusiast
● Husband and Father
● Avid Reader
● Financial Advisor With A Passion For Helping People Live Life Today and Be Confident About Tomorrow

𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐲 𝐄𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭
● My Weekly Newsletter Designed To Have Some Fun With Tech, Books, Food Items, Or Anything Else I've 
   Found Interesting That Week
● You'll Receive Market Updates As Well
● Email me at EDrury@usfsc.com and I'll be sure to include you on the next one!

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐌𝐲 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐦
Our Mission at US Financial Services is to Help Our Clients Live Life Today and Be Confident About Tomorrow.

Founded in 1989, US Financial Services is an independent family owned financial planning office that is dedicated to serving individuals and businesses by tailoring solutions to your unique needs that reflects your personal philosophies.

Full list of services
Financial planning, financial advice, wealth management, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange traded funds, annuities, REIT's, BDC's, life insurance, disability insurance, health insurance, long term care insurance, 401(k)'s, corporate benefits, stock option planning, coordinate tax planning with your accountant, budgeting, and more.

Securities offered through Kestra Investment Services, LLC (Kestra IS), member FINRA/SIPC. Investment advisory services offered through Kestra Advisory Services, LLC (Kestra AS), an affiliate of Kestra IS. U.S. Financial Services, LLC is not affiliated with Kestra IS or Kestra AS.

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