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

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?

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

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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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 & WEBSITE 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. 25 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

‼️ Real and raw consult call (after website with pricing listed was shared)

Them: Everything you shared sounds absolutely amazing and exactly what I need

Me: Ok great to move forward I simply require a deposit and contract signed

Them: OH I’d never pay your price, I couldn’t sleep at night if I did

Me: 👁️👄👁️



Reader please note - ALL of my clients sleep very well. In fact they sleep even better since hiring me, and raising their rates, and signing ideal clients, and building their dream businesses.

Not every potential client is an IDEAL CLIENT!

25 years in, served thousands of clients over that time span.
Striving to be better with each one. 

I’m not expensive. 
Your budget simply isn’t within my price range.

End statement. 

Do you list your prices on your website?
I do, but also feel people don’t read. Thoughts?

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🖋

From now on my comments on other people's posts will be my LINKEDIN content. Thanks for the "kind" tip Ann Eshaw

No need to make my own content anymore ... Phew 😅

Confession. I did not write a blog for October so I’m no longer on a 1 blog per month streak.

I was 7 for 7 since relaunching my website earlier this year.

I needed to let at least one person know, figured LinkedIn is a good and quite place to share our secrets. No one will see them anyway. 😬

Maybe I’ll write two in November to catch up?

Right after my NICHING DOWN Once and for all WORKSHOP.

There’s still time to join us!!
NOV 13th, 12pm est
1.5 hrs
It’s Interactive with Worksheets
Plus Q&A at the end.

12 Amazing business owners already registered.🎉

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.

(Link in comments to register now👇)

Do you publish blogs regularly?

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