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!

👑
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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Platusic Design Creative Studio

Specialize in Brand Development + Website Design & Brand Strategy. Currently design and art direct brand jobs for a diverse clientele, inclusive of service providers and consultants. Can also produce a variety of print material, POP, catalogues, flyers, packaging design, store front signage, corporate identities, ad campaigns, direct-mail pieces, promotional pieces, email blasts, online landing pages and website design. All jobs are created from concept to final production.

CREATIVE DIRECTOR | OWNER Branding Designer, Branding Strategist, Branding Consultant

GAM Creative

Art Director

Foxx Advertising and Design Inc.

Longo's

Senior Graphic Designer

Junior Graphic Designer

RE-BRAND STRATEGIST | BRANDING & WEB DESIGNER for Therapists, Coaches & Consultants that are looking to grow and scale their business and brand. ~ Lover of typography and Pen on Paper 🖋kickin’ it old school

Hey There! I’m Maria Platusic, Creative Director | Owner of Platusic Design Creative Studio. RE-BRAND STRATEGIST | BRANDING & WEB DESIGNER for, Coaches & Specialized Consultants that are looking to grow and scale their business and brand. 

I love all things nature 🌳, my family + friends, yoga 🧘‍♀️, pets 🐈🐕 and tacos 🌮 

My zone of genius is Branding Design + Website Design and Brand Strategy. 20 plus years in the industry, started off in corporate to now running my own branding agency. 

I’ve been told that my true talent is extracting the super powers of others and bringing it to the forefront for all to see. I enjoy taking my clients’ complex skill sets, simplifying their main message and packaging it all up neatly, leaving them irresistible to their audience.

I work with high-achieving entrepreneurs and business owners looking to elevate their branding efforts. They are usually ready to scale and grow. They know the brand that got them to where they currently are, won’t get them to where they want to be. They need help with brand strategy via isolating their target audience, scoping out the competition, determining their future goals, and solidifying their brand positioning. As their guide I help them achieve this by crafting a strategic plan and creating a clean and concise brand that speaks directly to their target audience. One that lasts for many years to come.

I do offer FREE BRAND STRATEGY CALLS for those looking to lose the Re-branding overwhelm. Feel free to DM me so I can learn more about your and your business and how I can support you. 
You can also book that here… https://calendly.com/platusicdesign/discoverycall 

I also HOST a group program- the Brand Strategy Breakdown, where we dive into the necessary facets of building out your brand foundation, the right way. You can learn more here…

https://platusicdesign.com/design/groupprogram/

Loads of Experience in… Graphic Design, Logo Design, Branding Design, Matching Marketing Collateral, Website Design, Advertising, Brochures, Magazine Layout, Catalogue Design, Signage, Book Layout and Internal Pages Design, Packaging and Die Line Creation, and more, with full knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite Programs. Let's chat and get creative together... info@platusicdesign.com

Maria Platusic

Can we brag on here?! 
Old me: I can’t get anyone to take action via email

New me: let’s send one email and watch how quickly the 10 spots fill up.

9 spots by 3pm

All 10 spots secured with one email in one day

Not too bad 💅

Posting this for those that doubt themselves from time to time, myself included. 👋

🥂 we got this!

If you want to join my BRAND KINDLE fireside chats monthly series, drop a hello below or DM me brand kindle and I’ll get you on that segmented list.

It’s FREE and full of real, deep conversations about brand strategy, marketing and business with fantastic insights and brilliant people.

PS- But do act fast 😅 for November’s call, as Octobers is booked!

PPS- HAPPY THANKSGIVING WEEKEND to my fav Canucks 🍁

ReBrand Strategist | Messaging + Positioning Pro | Branding & Website Designer for high level Coaches & Consultants that are looking to scale their business & brand sustainably ~ Lover of typography & Pen on Paper🖋

Am I a networking/mini-mastermind host? Nope! Not really on my resume. But do I love facilitating my BIZ BESTIES community? Absolutely!

I’m super lucky that I get to spend the entire next quarter with these brilliant business owners.

-We’ll share our wins and our struggles

-We’ll support one another  through decision making and challenges

- We’ll hold eachother accountable through our goals

-We’ll be the sounding board for the times in business we need it most 

Excited to end this year and quarter with our best intentions yet. 

It’s my giveback community, but I honestly get so much more in return.  Cup is overflowing 🥛

Thanks so much for being a part of it all ladies!

Miriam Rachel Ber Kendra Vyse Miri Malkin Lauren Nebel Melinda Chapman Vanessa Breschard Danielle Doyle  Kat Amaral-Warren Tracy Marshall 
Kirstin P. Sarah Coffield 
Berlyn Komar 

Psst- female-led business owners, want to join the waitlist for the next round Jan 2026?
(Link 👇 below)

EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! An introvert doing hard things 😅
Finally, choose the perfect niche once and for all, one that supports you, your business, and your long-term goals.

Join the NICHING DOWN once and for all WORKSHOP!
- Thursday November 13th
- 12pm est
- Live virtual workshop
- 1.5 hours

This live workshop will help you, the coach, consultant, and small business owner create clarity and focus in your business without feeling boxed in or missing out.

If you’ve been stuck spinning between ideas or second-guessing your direction, this workshop will help you land confidently in your lane.

I’ve seen firsthand how the clarity of niching down is what separates a scattered business from a strategic one.

25 years as a rebrand strategist and designer, I’ve witnessed all options available to us. And every excuse on why we think choosing is hard.😅

But…

WHEN YOU NICHE DOWN INTENTIONALLY – you create focus, the kind that helps your marketing click, your offers sell, and your messaging finally make sense to your ideal audience.

- If you’ve been kicking the “I can’t and won’t niche down my business” can around for a bit
- If you’ve niched yourself into a corner
- If you’re wanting to check-in with your niche OR
- simply refine it further,

THIS will be the WORKSHOP for you!!
NO FOMO - NO DRAMA
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GRAB EARLY BIRD PRICING NOW!
by REGISTERING via the link. SPOTS are LIMITED!

Jennifer Lyall, Maria Platusic and 13 other attendees

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