Advisors' Academy Recruits Senior Marketing Executive to Build Marketing Department

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - April 11, 2013 - PRLog -- FORT LAUDERDALE, FL, Dec. 1, 2012 – Advisors’ Academy, a growing marketing organization in the finance industry, is pleased to announce that Jim Arnott has been named the company’s new Director of Marketing.  With 20-plus years of proven executive sales and marketing leadership, Arnott will be responsible for building a world-class team to help expand the company’s recruiting efforts and substantially broaden the range of services and resources it provides to member financial advisors.

“Having someone with Jim’s experience and track record on board is a huge deal for this company,” said Advisors’ Academy founder David J. Scranton.  “It’s a testament to the fact that we’re growing and committed to growing further. It means we can better serve our existing members and reach more potential new members with our core message: you can grow your business beyond your wildest dreams while doing what’s best for your clients.”

In his career, Arnott has developed strategic marketing plans for a variety of high-profile companies, including Samsung Electronics America Inc., Citrix, EMC, Aplicor, Miller Brewing, Fuji Digital and The Boston Beer Company.  For the past nine years, Arnott has successfully made his own marketing-communications firm an integral part of the marketing departments of larger corporations.  He has spearheaded successful product launches, company rebranding efforts and marketing for a variety of startups.  He comes to Advisors’ Academy with broad-based management experience in a variety of environments, a realistic understanding of market constraints and opportunities, and a proven ability to generate demand to meet the aggressive sales goals of rapidly growing companies.

“Among its competitors, Advisors’ Academy is very well-positioned with some of the most innovative products and services in the industry,” Arnott said.  “I’m really looking forward to building a marketing team that can aggressively communicate the company’s unique value proposition to financial advisors.  The goal, of course, is to grow the company by adding new advisors to our ranks while at the same time helping our current advisors grow their own businesses exponentially with an ever-expanding variety of marketing systems and services.”

About Advisors’ Academy

David J. Scranton (CLU, ChFC, CFP®, CFA, MSFS) founded advisors’ Academy in 2007 with a vision to build an innovative Independent Field Marketing Organization (FMO/IMO) that would teach other highly successful, motivated advisors how to achieve even higher levels of success while always putting the interests of their clients first.

Through ongoing personal coaching and training in a variety of novel, market-proven systems, and turnkey tools that encompass every aspect of the business, hundreds of elite advisors across the country are now sharing in the realization of David Scranton’s vision.

As the Academy continues to grow, Scranton and his team are constantly honing existing systems and developing new cutting-edge tools and strategies.  Their objective is to not merely keep pace with, but to anticipate, the ever-changing landscape of the financial services industry.  In doing so, they successfully keep their member advisors (and the clients of those advisors) ahead of the game and on a path of reliable, ever-increasing growth.

In addition to running Advisors’ Academy, David J. Scranton is one of America’s most respected and successful independent financial advisors in his own right, and author of the acclaimed book, Stop the Financial Insanity; How to Keep Wall Street’s Cancer from Spreading to Your Portfolio.

PR CONTACT:

Jennifer Deegan

Marketing Manager

Advisors’ Academy

(860) 339-1126

jdeegan@advisorsacademy.com