Business

Cameron Farthing: ‘The Advertising Wizard’

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4 years ago

April 29, 2020

Marketing is necessary for entrepreneurs to connect with their respective customers. In this digital age, marketing has become a substantial component of each business. Digital marketing plays an effective role in maintaining direct communication between a business and its consumers. An important subset of digital marketing is advertisement. People spend a great amount of time on their digital platforms and companies use this to their benefit. This helps a business gain more visibility and promote themselves in front of their target audience. Cameron Farthing is the co-founder of a successful global digital marketing agency called ‘The Normal Company’.

Cameron Farthing was 17 years old when he decided to drop out of college. He was extremely ambitious to discover his purpose in life and work hard to make a living. He came across the idea of becoming a commercial diver and despite seemingly difficult he went ahead without much hesitation. He borrowed a loan from his father to enroll himself in a course for commercial divers. He spent 3 years tirelessly working as a commercial diver but he realized his determination to pursue it further had lowered. This led him to discover multiple other options. He started with a Youtube channel and then growing and selling Instagram accounts followed by affiliate marketing and reselling sneakers. However, he did not feel passionate enough to continue with any of these.

Cameron Farthing discovered e-commerce and drop shipping. He launched his e-commerce store and earned a profit of 4000 pounds within his first month. He altered his business model to accommodate the growing sales and within 10 months his profit hit 6-figures. He wanted to primarily give attention to his e-commerce business and this led him to quit his job as a commercial diver. He launched several more e-commerce stores and his business began to expand rapidly. He invested 90% of his profits in surrounding himself with some of the top digital marketers working on platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram. He worked hard to learn from them and focused on familiarizing himself with leading marketing platforms.

Everything Farthing had worked for led him to the realization that he was most passionate about digital marketing. He had learned how to become an expert in using digital advertisements to help global brands accelerate their e-commerce growth. This knowledge was applied to the formation of ‘The Normal Company’ in 2019. This digital marketing agency assists brands to generate more revenue on monthly sales. They deal by connecting with a brand on an interpersonal level. They allow the brands to widen their perspective and truly believe in their goals. The agency designs ideas for brands to expand their growth by recognizing their potential. Additionally, they assist brands that are stuck with stagnant monthly sales to achieve well over 6-figures in sales. Their pattern to aid development is implemented systematically.

Cameron Farthing is an expert in advertisement on Facebook and Instagram. He has helped global brands increase their revenues by promoting their e-commerce growth through advertisements on social media. He believes that brands need to expand systematically as the e-commerce and digital marketing industry is constantly growing. This growth will lead to an increase in competition and understanding the power of skillful advertisement will prove to be highly valuable for brands globally.

Business

Retire Smart, Save More: How MDRN’s Virtual Planning Model Can Slash Retirement Costs

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3 days ago

October 8, 2024

Rosario Farell

The media is calling it a “retirement crisis.” Millions of Americans are arriving at retirement age woefully unprepared.

Some studies suggest that 45 percent of the Baby Boomers have no retirement savings, while 28 percent of those who have started saving have less than $100,000 put away. Consequently, many Americans now living in retirement or approaching that season are looking for ways to cut back on their expenses.

Aaron Cirksena, founder and CEO of MDRN Capital, has a solution for those looking to retire smart and save more. His firm’s completely virtual model increases retirees’ spending power by decreasing the fees associated with retirement planning.

“Our unique approach to providing retirement planning services allows our clients to experience significant savings when compared with the traditional model of investment management and retirement planning,” Cirksena shares. “When we did away with the overhead expenses that stem from operating a brick-and-mortar office, we were able to create a fee solution for our clients that is lower than the typical advisor. On average, our fees on the entire client portfolio tend to run 30 to 40 percent lower than the typical advisor operating under a conventional model. Additionally, we can provide services like estate planning, tax planning, and tax preparation at no additional cost.”

MDRN Capital is revolutionizing retirement planning by offering a comprehensive range of services, including income planning, investment management, tax planning, healthcare, and estate planning, in a setting that exceeds the efficiency and effectiveness traditional providers are able to offer. Unlike traditional firms, MDRN Capital leverages the power of digital tools to deliver comprehensive services without the need for in-person meetings, allowing clients to enjoy their retirement while their financial needs are expertly managed.

“My goal with MDRN Capital was creating a completely virtual firm that could more efficiently provide the convenience clients wanted while also meeting their ongoing investment needs,” Cirksena shares. “MDRN Capital’s virtual model empowers an environment in which we could serve our clients with less costs to the firm and pass the savings on to them.”

Financial planning for the new normal

MDRN Capital’s innovative approach to retirement advising emerged as a result of Cirksena’s experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to social distancing, advising during the pandemic shifted to virtual appointments. When social distancing was no longer necessary, Cirksena expected his clients would resume their pre-pandemic patterns. He was wrong.

“My clients let me know they preferred the comfort and convenience of virtual meetings to the hassles associated with having in-office meetings,” Cirksena says. “They didn’t miss sitting in traffic and searching for parking spaces, and I couldn’t blame them. Even the clients who lived only a few minutes away decided they would rather meet via Zoom than have a face-to-face meeting in our nice Class-A office space.”

MDRN Capital was designed to meet the client expectations that emerged during Covid. By leveraging technology to take his services to his clients rather than expecting them to come to him, Cirksena made advising more convenient and more cost-effective at the same time.

Financial savings for struggling retirees

Recent studies show the high inflation the US has been experiencing has a larger than average impact on many retirees. In response, many are looking to tighten their belts by cutting back on spending, but reducing the fees associated with retirement accounts is something few consider.

“For retirees, lower gas and grocery costs are certainly helpful,” Cirksena says. “However, cutting their investment management costs in half puts dramatically more money in their pocket over time than lower prices on goods ever could.”

To understand the impact MDRN Capital’s approach can have on retirees, consider that $250,000 earning seven percent over 20 years will grow to $967,421.12. Factor in a 1 percent fee, and growth is limited to $801,783.87, but raising the fee to 2 percent causes earnings to fall to $721,034.70.

Cirksena points to his industry’s failure to embrace modern technology as one reason why investment fees remain high.

“Unlike many industries that have used and adopted technology for decades to help lower costs and make services more efficient, the financial services sector has lagged behind,” he explains. “Many firms continue to incur unnecessary overhead and expenses, which their clients pay for in the form of elevated fees.”

The virtual investment environment Cirksena has created moves retirement planning into the future. It provides a financial service experience that is convenient, comfortable, and efficient while also ensuring that none of its clients’ investment potential is wasted on unnece