Fortis Financial Management | Creative Work by Blackwater Digital

Nine services, nine identities

for 

Fortis Financial Management

Website design & build

WordPress build

Service-page differentiation

Client Portal & calculators

01 / The Brief

A boutique Cork brokerage, selling trust before it sells anything else.

Fortis Financial Management is a Cork City brokerage advising high earners and business owners on retirement, protection, investment and succession, regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland, working across products from providers including Irish Life, Zurich, New Ireland and Standard Life.

Nobody books a consultation with a financial advisor on impulse. Before anyone fills in a form, the site has to do the work a first meeting would normally do: establish that this is a regulated, credentialed, independent advisor worth trusting with a pension or a family's protection.

02 / Results

XX% Organic search sessions, year on year
XX Consultation enquiries through the site, current period
XX% Of traffic landing on an individual service page

03 / The Challenge

Nine services that sound like each other on paper, and have to read differently on the page.

Retirement Planning, Pension Auto Enrolment, Shareholder Protection, Keyman Insurance, Succession Planning, to a business owner outside the industry, several of these sound interchangeable, and a site that treats them that way undersells the actual breadth of what Fortis offers.

Each service needed its own page, written to its own audience, a business owner insuring against losing a key employee reads a different page to a retiree deciding how to draw down a pension, with the credibility signals (regulation, provider partnerships, credentials) doing consistent work across all of them rather than living in one "About" page nobody reaches.

05 / Across the site

06 / What we did

01 / Structure

Nine services, nine landing pages

Every service, from Retirement Planning through to Death in Service, got its own page rather than a shared paragraph on a single Services page, so each one can be found and understood on its own terms.

02 / Build

WordPress, with a Client Portal and calculators

Beyond the marketing site, the build includes a dedicated Client Portal and a calculators section, practical tools for existing clients, not just a brochure for prospective ones.

03 / Trust

Credentials and regulation, up front

Central Bank regulation, provider partnerships and advisor qualifications sit near the top of the homepage, the reassurance a financial services buyer needs before they'll consider a consultation.

Client testimonial

“Have worked with Bharath and his team over the past 6 months to enhance our website, improve our SEO and grow our online presence and I cannot speak highly enough about them.

The level of detail that goes into the work they do is incredible. They are cooperative, knowledgeable, professional and easy to work with.

Since we began working with BW Digital our online presence has grown and our website has become a genuine tool in client generation.

Thanks Bharath, Jamie & Sohan”

Conor Tobin - Fortis Financial

08 / Everything delivered

Design & build

  • — Full site design
  • — WordPress build
  • — Nine individual service page templates
  • — Client Portal integration
  • — Financial calculators section

Structure & search

  • — Service-per-page architecture
  • — On-page SEO
  • — Local SEO, Cork & Munster

Content

  • — Homepage & service page copy
  • — About & credentials copy
  • — Blog, retirement & pension planning
  • — Contact & consultation booking flow

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