They soon found that the project was breaking new ground in the Jamaican financial landscape and taking them where no one in the Caribbean region had gone before. She ploughed her own money into getting the developers to make her project work. Johnson then turned to Apps Design Jamaica to build the app. 'I did a lot of research, wrote down my ideas and I discovered that apps are the way to go,' she said. I found myself having to spend a lot before I could earn, so it got me thinking that there must be a more efficient way to give this advice without driving cost,' Johnson said. 'Being new to the insurance industry, it was a bit of a challenge to travel across parishes to answer a basic question or give general information. The insurance and equity-linked products she was offering could only move to the client if they had confidence in the advice she was offering.
Johnson was a rookie financial advisor in December 2013 when she found herself racking up travel miles to bringing financial advice and closing money management deals with clients. The Jamaican creator of Money Visor, Nicola Johnson- MSBM MBA graduate, hopes to change the way advice gets to clients by opening a communications channel that literally places financial advice at the customer's fingertips.
Money advice is now only a click away with the launch of the Caribbean's first mobile application dedicated to financial planning.
