About Maria Marsala

An irrepressible entrepreneur, Maria Marsala sold AVON at age 14 and landed on Wall Street three years later. She became a bond trader when female executives were as rare as pink diamonds. For 25 years, Maria streamlined Fortune 500 companies, nurtured non-profits, and discovered her niche—mentoring women CEOs and executives. Armed with corporate secrets and life coach credentials, Maria founded Elevating Your Business to help female financial professionals live better using her proprietary brand of consultative-coaching. Contact Maria today and take the first step toward freedom, full-fillment, and a sparkling quality of life!
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12 August 2015

Self Directed IRAs and 401ks – How to Differentiate Yourself

2022-08-07T16:15:54-04:00August 12th, 2015|Teams & Groups|0 Comments

Are you looking for a way to differentiate yourself as an advisor? Investing in alternative investments inside self directed IRAs may be the answer. Innovative Advisory Group specializes in this type of investment strategy. Our services include: choosing from the 44 custodians and administrators, providing due diligence on these assets, protecting the client from prohibited transactions, and ongoing maintenance requirements. Advisor Assisted Alternatives is a service we’ve been using with our clients and external advisors. It’s set up like an SMA so that you can offer this alternative investment advice to your prospects and clients in their IRA or 401k accounts. To learn more contact Kirk Chisholm at Innovative Advisory Group.  

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20 July 2015

How To Make Your LinkedIn Profile URL Shorter

2022-08-07T17:41:16-04:00July 20th, 2015|Social Media|0 Comments

When you joined LinkedIn, their system  automatically assigned a Public Profile URL to your account.  It looks something like this:  http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/yourname/0/123/123 Make it shorter. Extra letters and numbers make URLs harder to remember. Sometimes, advisors who aren’t allowed to have their own websites (yet), use their LinkedIn address as a substitute for a website.  I often see those long random URLs on business cards.  It bears repeating:  Every extra letter or number in a URL makes it harder to remember (and type in correctly) when someone attempts to contact you. You can do better than that! Currently, LinkedIn allows you to change the URL for your LinkedIn profile.  But if you’re been using that URL throughout

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4 July 2015

Let Freedom Ring!

2022-08-07T17:41:17-04:00July 4th, 2015|Leadership|0 Comments

FREEDOM! For me it looks like being able to travel across the country and taking off on Fridays when I want to. For my sister Martie, it’s living in NY and CA. For YOU...? Freedom is the #1 reason most advisor-owners go independent. Having the freedom to work with clients “the right way” is so important. If you're about treating clients right, but YOU’RE not able to go where you want, and do what you want when you want, chances are that your business isn’t supporting you. You can change that. If you don't have the freedom you crave to do what you want--when you want--it's because you don’t have a team, don’t have a big enough team, or your

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