Life Event Journey - Having a Baby

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4 min
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October 11, 2023

As a financial advisor, guiding clients through significant life events, especially the arrival of a new baby, is paramount. This involves helping them understand the financial implications of these life events, providing guidance on how to manage their finances during these transitions and helping them develop a long-term financial plan that aligns with their goals and priorities.

Given the many joys and shifts that come with welcoming a new family member, we've curated a 6-week life event journey from the HeyAdvisor content library tailored for this milestone. This suggested journey can be used as a guide for you to create a meaningful email marketing campaign for millennial clients using the software of your choice. 

With HeyAdvisor's ready-to-use email templates and seamless integration with Mailchimp, setting up and reusing these life event journeys with clients and potential clients becomes a breeze.

Week 1

Introduce the topic and provide your clients with a “why”. 

Starting with a simple introduction email provides clarification and increases the engagement you will have during the email marketing journey.  

Sample email: 

Dear Client,
Big congrats on the upcoming addition to your family! A new baby brings so much joy, and yes, some new financial considerations too. As you gear up for this exciting journey, we want to help ensure you're feeling confident about your financial game plan.
Over the next six weeks, we'll be sharing some educational pieces around the wealth planning opportunities that may be of interest to you. We will then work with you to identify your goals and develop a customized plan that will help you achieve them.
We believe that by taking a proactive approach to your finances, you can achieve your goals and build the future you envision. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. We look forward to working with you.
Best regards,
[Your Name]

Week 2

Send this

Infographic

from our content library

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New Parents Wealth Planning Checklist

This piece highlights some of the most important factors your clients should consider when welcoming their newest family member. It’s a simple checklist-style infographic that is easy to share.

Week 3

Send this

Video

from our content library

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What To Expect (Financially) When You Are Expecting

This video focuses on the proactive planning that your clients can implement today to protect their loved ones in the future.

Week 4

Send this

Infographic

from our content library

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Key Aspects of Your Will

Welcoming a baby can create the motivation to have a will completed. This infographic shares the key decisions your clients need to make about their will prior to meeting with a lawyer to save them time and ensure they make the best decisions for their individual scenarios.

Week 5

Send this

Infographic

from our content library

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Considerations When Choosing Guardians

Building upon the aspect of will planning, choosing guardians for minor children is an important and difficult decision. This infographic helps your clients make this decision by sharing the different things they should consider and ask themselves prior to naming guardians.

Week 6

Send this

Infographic

from our content library

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Types of RESPs

When it comes to investing, new or expecting parents usually have questions around RESPs. This infographic introduces the different types of RESP accounts so that your clients can start to invest for their new family member’s future education.

Once the journey is complete, set up a meeting to allow for any questions and start implementing relevant wealth planning opportunities. 

Did you find this to be helpful? Check out our Life Event Journey: Getting Married and stay tuned for more. 

Best Practices Tip

Best practices tip:

  • Creating this email campaign as a journey in Mailchimp, or a series of emails in an email marketing software of your choice, will help you leverage technology and create a successful content marketing plan. 
  • Create it once and use it over and over again by enrolling clients that the journey relates to.  
  • Leverage HeyAdvisor’s videos, infographics, email templates and Mailchimp templates in the process.

HeyAdvisor is a digital content library that financial advisors leverage to connect with their clients. The highly engaging educational library of videos and infographics is white-labelled with advisor branding and can be integrated into email marketing campaigns, websites, client portals and social media. The intuitive library is grouped by life events making it easy to add value to the client relationship at times in their lives that matter most. Review our plans here.

Emily Reed
CEO and Co-Founder of HeyAdvisor
Emily is a former associate financial advisor with over 13 years experience in the financial industry. For over 8 years, she has also been working closely with advisors to help them create a more systematized business with a focus on attracting and retaining their ideal clients.
Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
contact@heyadvisor.ca