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Trust takes more than just good advice.

Advisers, brokers and accountants deliver real value. Too often your digital presence doesn’t reflect the quality or impact of your work. Between client calls, market shifts and compliance demands, marketing slides to the bottom of the list – and the result is inconsistent posting, generic content, or worse: silence.

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Sarah Barnett, founder of Social Broker
Meet the founder

Sarah Barnett

Founder and Head of Content

Sarah launched Social Broker in early 2020, answering a fairly blunt cry for help from her contacts in the finance industry, who were fed up with the offerings available at the time. She rolled up her sleeves and built the thing they actually needed.

Before that came years in consumer psychology and market research, working in behaviour change for some of Australia’s largest financial services brands. Social Broker isn’t a design studio that learned about finance – we’re a behavioural science business, applied to an industry where every message has to clear a compliance bar first before it persuades.

She writes Words That Move Money™, a newsletter on how finance brands get people to yes, and the business is now run from Perth with clients across Australia.

Why it works

Why your finance brand needs a content system.

Your competitors churn out posts. You activate a system built on behavioural insight – engineered to build trust, enhance your reputation and convert. Every piece of Social Broker content is grounded in four things:

01

Consumer psychology

What people feel before they think. Every post is built around the emotion that comes first, because that’s what decisions rest on.

02

Conversion copywriting

Language that triggers decisions rather than describing services. Specific, concrete, and written to be believed.

03

Credibility cues

The signals the brain uses to judge authority – cited data, plain numbers, consistency over time. They are deliberate, not decorative.

04

Industry-ready compliance

Nothing that puts your licence at risk. Built for ASIC, AFSL, aggregator and licensee expectations from the first draft.

So while other brands race to publish more content, your brand communicates with clarity, authority and consistency – the three drivers of commercial trust.

What you get with us

Specialists in content for finance professionals.

Industry knowledge

We’re active in the finance and property industries, and bridge the gap between what you know and what your clients need to know.

Market insight

Market research acumen behind every topic, so the content connects with what your audience is actually weighing up.

Flexible tiers

Three subscription levels to suit the size, stage and ambition of your business. Move between them at any time.

Australia wide

Established in Melbourne, currently based in sunny Perth and working with finance professionals in every state.

Transparent pricing

Published prices, no lock-in contracts, no setup surprises. See what each tier costs.

Ongoing support

Software does the heavy lifting, but sometimes you just need to speak to a person.

Honestly, though…

Are we a good fit?

Social Broker has a few traits in common with our happiest clients.

Your vibe

How do you want clients to see you? If words like credible, competent, trustworthy, consistent, knowledgeable and ethical spring to mind, we are going to get along.

Our vibe

A smallish founder-led business. When we are not at work we prioritise learning, wellbeing and fun. We are serious about giving you back the time marketing was eating.

Content 101

Content marketing works when you give more than you take. Share insights widely, show your expertise, be genuinely useful. We do that on your behalf.

People first

If you are like us, you see your audience as people first, and possibly clients you have not met yet. Your content respects their intelligence.

The Decision Safety Map™

Where the framework came from.

Finance decisions are high stakes, and people choose the adviser or broker who feels competent and safe. The Decision Safety Map is our name for how that actually happens – three jobs a month of content has to do, and twelve named principles underneath them.

01Territory one

Reduce threat

Make the decision feel safe before it feels smart.

  • Loss aversion
  • Authority
  • Social proof
  • Ambiguity aversion
02Territory two

Increase clarity

Strip the decision down to something plain and concrete.

  • Processing fluency
  • Specificity
  • Anchoring
  • Future pacing
03Territory three

Justify the action

Give someone a reason they can repeat back to themselves.

  • Contrast effect
  • Curiosity gap
  • Reciprocity
  • Identity aspiration

We built Social Broker to make trust tangible – removing friction and signalling credibility, so choosing you becomes the obvious decision.

See the full map
Next step

Not an agency. Not a template. A system.

Pick a tier and your first content preview lands within five business days, or have a conversation with Sarah first.