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Tony Vidler – Business Adviser

Tony Vidler is a business adviser who focuses on helping business professionals build more profitable advice businesses.

There are many many things that can be done to build a better business, but Tony has a simple beginning point:

Do you have as many customers as you need?

A simple question…but a complex problem for many. This is key issue that Tony resolves:

“I get more customers
for my customers”

Tony Vidler is a Conference speaker, personal business mentor & sales coach, business adviser & generator of ideas for helping professionals build their advice businesses.

There are simple, effective ways to do this that any professional can master once they know how, so building effective marketing systems and tactics that you can carry on using and and which are focussed on getting you more business is a key to long term success for any practice.

Getting the initial message and value proposition defined and well articulated is often the beginning point - and the area of greatest value for most professionals who work with Tony.

It is about putting in place practical business ideas that you can actually use to grow your business – a simple objective, but one which takes skill and thought to achieve. With over 15,000 social media, e-zine and blog followers, I walk the talk. I know how to get attention and interest, & build a great brand, and am recognised as one of the Top 250 online influencers in financial business services globally.

If you want to watch for a while and see for yourself, then subscribe to the Financial Adviser Coach blog and get good tips and ideas to grow your business delivered to you each week.

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Business Adviser to the Advisers

Speaker.

Professional. Practiced. Proficient. Positioned. Personalised.
That’s what you get from every engagement with me, whether that is as a conference speaker, running workshops or delivering training sessions. Renowned for delivering high paced & information packed presentations that are fun – but with lots of practical takeouts for audiences. I don’t just talk about value. I deliver it every time.

Thinker.

I see the world differently to other professionals, and think differently. Strategic insight into how the changes in consumers, technology, marketing and delivery of professional services can result in doing business differently – and better – creates different options for professionals who are looking ahead.

Perhaps the greatest strength is the ability to help define and articulate points of difference that matter – creating value propositions that deliver meaningful positioning and messages to target markets.

Coach.

A great coach has the technical knowledge and competencies to be able to understand quickly where effort or resources  are best applied to achieve extraordinary results.  Balancing up the capability, capacity and opportunity issues of the practice, together with the resources, budgets and desire of the practitioners results in strategies that can work without creating stress.  They also have the skill and acumen to understand what your values, beliefs, strengths and weaknesses are – and how to work with them to achieve the greatest result.

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Business Adviser & Sales Training Coach

Innovation in delivering Financial Advice: Does it have to be this way?
Practice Management & Professional Services & Strategy & Value Proposition
Innovation in delivering Financial Advice: Does it have to be this way?
Quick Tips Videos & Sales & Marketing for Professional Services
Ask the expert? Be The Expert That Gets Asked!
by Tony Vidler        It is so easy today to get yourself “in print” and be positioned to be the expert that target market customers ask for advice, and being the expert that gets asked leads to those customers putting in place solutions with you. Setting up chat forums, blogs, ezines and so on are all […]
Marketing Ideas
Could you be a Thought Leader Adviser?
by Tony Vidler         Business would be easier if people recognised their problems and knew you were the one with the answers, and they just came straight to you to get them solved, right? To achieve that you should be positioning as a thought leader. THE subject matter experts expert. To put it in its […]
Sales & Marketing for Professional Services & Sales Tips
Do you REALLY want to be a Great Adviser?
by Tony Vidler         An adviser told me that they wanted to be “great”…a GREAT adviser.  My immediate thought was would you prefer being considered “great” to having a great business, because you might be able to have both, but then, you might not either.  Then I thought “isn’t it healthier and far more enjoyable to […]
Marketing Ideas & Quick Tips Videos & Sales & Marketing for Professional Services
How To Get (and “do”) Client Testimonial Video’s
by Tony Vidler        One of the most powerful marketing tactics is getting client testimonial video’s. Yet, the majority of advisory firms do not appear to have really taken advantage of the consumer appetite for video or how they can use video to improve client service & experience as yet, and it seems they have […]
Sales & Marketing for Professional Services & Sales Tips & Strategic Issues
The simple prospecting system from the worlds greatest ever salesman
by Tony Vidler        According to the Guiness Book Of World Records the greatest salesman in the world was Joe Girard. Joe sold cars…an incredible 13,001 cars sold in his career.  One at a time…working “retail” with high priced items.  And selling the same things, at the same price, as a heck of a lot […]