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1/12/2021

Advisors Embracing Digital Marketing Resources More and More

 
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Whether they wanted to innovate, or a pandemic forced their hand, advisors embraced more digital marketing resources during 2020.

According to InvestmentNews Research, 42% of advisers have used a new digital marketing or technology tool for the first time during 2020, while 88% have expanded the use of at least one tool. The driving force, not surprisingly, was the pandemic, and a stay-at-home environment that forced advisors to find new ways to connect with their customers.  

As our world has changed over the past year it begs questions like: 
  • With this sudden increase in the online presence of advisors, how are compliance and supervision keeping up with the monitoring requirements?
  • How do you know if all of the online content from your advisors has been pre-approved?
  • What if your advisors are not disclosing all of their online communications, blogs, articles, social media, etc?
  • How are you to discover this online content?
  • Do you have the time to complete this “increased workload”?

Surges in online marketing and communications are not going to level out anytime soon. 80% of surveyed advisers said they would be placing more importance on their digital marketing in the coming year.

For nearly a decade, Eagle Eye  has provided a platform compliance can rely on when it comes to monitoring the internet activity of their advisors. Eagle Eye discovers social media accounts, websites, blogs, OBAs, DBAs, online profiles, and events that belong to or are about your advisors, allowing you to address issues prior to regulatory discovery or examination.

Eagle Eye monitors 50,000+ advisors across our customer base and has automatically alerted compliance supervisors on over 1.2M discoveries that warranted reviews broken down by
  • 59% unapproved/unknown social media accounts
  • 5% unknown/unauthorized outside business activities
  • 5% unapproved/unknown websites or blogs
  • 31% other

Contact us to schedule a time to discuss your internet supervision compliance needs and concerns this New Year. We will show you the solutions that Eagle Eye provides to companies when it comes to internet supervision.

Kindly,
James Cella, President and CEO james@sqcompliance.com

Source:
https://www.investmentnews.com/adapt-and-survive-2020-forces-adviser-embrace-of-digital-tools-199923

1/11/2021

Automated Internet Supervision: We're Designing It Together

 
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WHERE DID THE IDEA OF EAGLE EYE COME FROM?
 
We get asked this question all the time and honestly, we are proud to say that its genesis came from compliance and supervision professionals like you.  In fact, many of the features and processes come directly from our clients and those who are using the application in short-term pilots.

Learn More.

1/4/2021

TRENDS WHEN IT COMES TO SUPERVISING THE WEB

 
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We would like to share with you some of the trends we are finding while assisting our clients with their requirements to supervise their representatives’ web presence:
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  • Writing and publishing books to sell on third-party sites like Amazon
  • Publishing personal videos and vlogs
  • Participating and commenting in online forums
  • Registering on Yelp
  • Being mentioned or cited in third party articles
  • Representatives being accused of fraud on third party blogs or sites
  • Venturing into non-traditional social media or creating non-monitored social media accounts
 
The growth of the internet has been exponential over the last decade with no signs of slowing down. Hundreds of thousands of websites have emerged on every subject imaginable, with literally billions of web pages online. As of April, 2019, the Indexed Web is estimated to contain at least 5.6 billion pages, according to WorldWideWebSize.com.
 
It is difficult to fully comprehend exactly how many websites and web pages there are out there in the vast internet universe. As a supervisor for a financial firm, you personally might have a better idea of how big it is when you are trying to supervise your representatives’ web presence.
 
When performing a basic web search, you get hundreds, if not thousands of irrelevant results. It then becomes your job, as a supervisor to try and sift through all that web clutter to document and report on anything pertinent that you might find. It can end up taking most your day just trying to find results relevant to your intended search.
 
Your time is valuable. Any search engine can produce an endless amount of meaningless results that need to be reviewed. Our Eagle Eye application is designed with built-in intelligence that sifts through the web’s clutter and brings only the most relevant results to your attention. Our multi-query processes and dynamically designed algorithms provide more accurate results for a quick review process.
 
In addition to our search results our automated screenshots feature helps you document, report and escalate any issue that is brought to light. One of our clients said ​
​"The Eagle Eye Surveillance system has been a force multiplier in my firm’s supervisory scheme. This simple tool has transformed my internet surveillance sweep process from a time-consuming, multi-day enterprise where I view the same search results over and over to a simple process that can be completed in a couple of hours."
Another one of our clients said:
​“As soon as we implemented Eagle Eye, the system found searches that were previously missed with the manual process and as a result, we updated our policy and procedures to minimize compliance risk. Also, one of our previous hurdles was demonstrating to our regulators with documentation that we were conducting the appropriate monitoring but with the audits reports, that are available directly from the system, we are able to document and show individual findings in an organized manner."
​​Outside OBAs and unauthorized content from your representatives or advisors are a growing concern that will always be present. Minimize your risk by utilizing Eagle Eye. See for yourself how Eagle Eye will meticulously search the web for you and your firm.
 
Contact us today for a demo.
 
Source: http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/

    About James Cella

    James Cella is the President of a growing and innovative compliance technology provider called SiteQuest Compliance. James is a customer-centric individual and focuses on building and sustaining positive and lasting relationship with his clients and partners. James and his family are "super fans" of University of Utah Football and have attended nearly every home game since 2002. Go Utes!


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