White Glove Workshops vs.
Eight Digit Media

Seminar Marketing Comparison

Seminars have been a popular tool for financial advisors to bring in predictable revenue for years and contrary to popular belief they still work.

In the past these events have been marketed using direct mail which was fine 15 years ago.

In today's financial advisor marketing world social media is proving to be a much better investment when it comes to filling up your seminar with qualified prospects.

This brings me to the point of writing up this comparison.

White Glove Workshops to the best of my knowledge is one of the biggest providers of Done For You marketing for financial advisors when it comes to hosting seminars.

In this comparison we will take a look at the pros and cons of using White Glove Workshops versus using a more traditional marketing agency to help you market your seminars.

Disclaimer

All of the information for this comparison was gathered from publicly available resources on WGW's website.

Who Owns The Funnel

Eight Digit Media
  • You own the funnel and all of the data.
White Glove Workshops
  • WGW owns the funnel and all of the data.
Conclusion:

If being in control and owning your data is important then having a system built for you that can be used over and over again will win out here. Owning your data allows you take advantage of retargeting visitors to your funnel even if they don't register. This also allows for you to customize your messaging to your brand.

Brand Promotion

Eight Digit Media
  • We use your branding in all of the marketing material.
White Glove Workshops
  • Your company's brand will not be used in any marketing material.
Conclusion:

If having potential prospects know who you are and building rapport is important to you then promoting your own brand should be a winner here. As an advisor people are buying a relationship with you and the sooner you can start that relationship the better.

Booking A Venue

Eight Digit Media
  • We do not provide a service for venue booking.
White Glove Workshops
  • WGW provides a service to locate and book a venue and will pay for the cost upfront, but you are ultimately responsible for paying for the venue if there is a cost associated.
Conclusion:

If having someone help you find a venue is important to you then WGW wins out here. In most instances you can easily book a room in your local library and this is usually free to you as a taxpayer. Just call them up and see if they have availability and pick a date that works for you. Tuesdays, Wednesday, and Thursdays are the best days for hosting a mid-day seminar.

Registrations

Eight Digit Media
  • Registrations and reminder emails are done via automation for you. We will personally call each registrant to verify they will attend your event.
White Glove Workshops
  • WGW manages registrations, makes confirmation calls, and sends reminder emails.
Conclusion:

We both offer the same service here so it's a wash.

Presentations

Eight Digit Media
  • You get to do your own presentation on whatever it is you would like to talk about. We will build an ad campaign around your presentation.  
White Glove Workshops
  • WGW will provide a presentation and training on how to present it.
Conclusion:

If you need a presentation and training on how to be an effective presenter then WGW wins out here.

Territories

Eight Digit Media
  • We work on a first come first serve basis. We also allow for a much bigger geographical area for you to market in. In addition to using zip codes for targeting, we can also target radiuses from a point of a reference.
White Glove Workshops
  • WGW works on a first come first serve basis.
Conclusion:

We both offer the same service here.

Financing

Eight Digit Media
  • We do not provide financing.
White Glove Workshops
  • WGW provides financing.
Conclusion:

We believe marketing should not break the bank and for this reason you should not need a loan to grow your practice using effective marketing strategies.

Pricing

Eight Digit Media
  • You pay a flat fee for us to market your seminar. The ad spend required to market your seminar is paid by you directly to the ad platform such as Facebook and this is at cost.
White Glove Workshops
  • You only pay for those individuals who attend your seminar.
Conclusion:

In our experience paying at cost for your marketing allows for a much lower cost per registrant by as much as 50% or more. While you do take on some risk with your own campaign, the reward is just as great if you have the right marketing partner.

Guarantees

Eight Digit Media
  • We offer a satisfaction guarantee.
White Glove Workshops
  • WGW offers a triple guarantee. Guaranteed registrations, guaranteed attendees and guaranteed success.
Conclusion:

If you are looking to get your money back or only want to pay for results, then WGW is the winner here.

Let's take a look at an example seminar

The average WGW seminar will costs about $300 per household that shows up to your event.

The average cost per registrant using your own marketing system is $30.00 per household as of the time of this writing. (2/22/23) This is based on real data from accounts we manage for advisors in various markets.

With an average show up rate of 40%, your cost per attendee would be $75.00.

Let's run the numbers to see which approach would be more cost effective and give you the ability to scale your marketing.

In this example we will say 20 households will attend your seminar.

WGWFacebook
20HH$6,000$1,500

As you can see there is a vast difference in costs. WGW is 4X the cost of buying ads at costs.

Now this doesn't take into consideration the time it would take you to figure out how to set up and run an efficient campaign using social media.

If you hired an agency like ours to manage your campaign your costs would be an additional $2,500 which is our flat fee for managing a campaign.

This would bring your total costs to $4,000 which equates to paying $200 per household.

To add to this, since our service is a flat fee service, you can host up to 4 seminars every 30 days for the same flat $2,500. Your only additional cost would be the ad spend for each campaign.

Going back to our original example of having 20 HH attend a seminar. If you held 4 seminars in a month with WGW, your total costs would be $24,000!

Doing the same 4 seminars with us would cost you $8,500 ($2,500 flat fee + Facebook ad spend of $6,000) which is almost a 300% savings!

In the end you would be paying less by partnering with an agency to help you build your own system to market your seminars.

Plus you get the benefit of owning all of the data and using it to market to people over and over, thus lowering your costs over time.

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