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Looking beyond the obvious for strategic alliance partners

by Tony Vidler Great alliances with other businesses will enhance your brand and put you in front of more ideal prospects that you don’t have to find yourself. That is really the key benefit of having strategic alliance partners. There is a tendency however for most advisers to go after the same sort […]

Building A Profitable AND Valuable Practice

by Tony Vidler Building a profitable practice is is the first objective for practitioners, but building a sustainable profitable and valuable practice is even better isn’t it? Many good practitioners achieve the objective of building a profitable practice easily enough. After all, that is little more than keeping the sales and revenue pumping […]

Strategic Alliances are Smart Marketing

by Tony Vidler It is hard work perhaps but creating strategic alliances is one of the smartest business building moves a practice can make. Perhaps it is because it is not an easy or quick thing to do that so many professional services businesses never do it, but those that do reap the rewards […]

Getting to the point where “Ideal Prospects Call Me!”

by Tony Vidler Who doesn’t want to be getting to the point where “ideal prospects call me” – and preferably continuously. Being so busy with new client opportunities that you just can’t handle them….So many incoming calls from ideal prospects in fact that we have to put our fees up just to control the […]

Thinking Differently To Connect With Prospects

by Tony Vidler Thinking differently would seem to be an obvious thing to do if one wanted to be different. If you wanted your advisory firm to stand out from competitors it would make sense to DO something different too. So thinking differently and then being different seems to be a pretty straightforward way […]

Publishing Content: it’s where authority meets effective marketing

by Tony Vidler Every professional should aspire to being an Authority to their chosen audience in my view. The ideal is you have top-of-mind-awareness with your target market of course, but more than just being the first person they think of when a particular issue arises, you want to be positioned as their only viable […]

The 1 Thing You Need To Actually Make Your Strategy Work For You

by Tony Vidler For most professional services firms today the strategic challenge of the moment is determining what the right strategy is that will work for the firm rather than making it work. But when you do settle on your strategy you then have to make it work – and that is a separate challenge. […]

The Gordian Knot of Getting Referral Business

by Tony Vidler Getting referral business is hard…but oddly enough it is also easy. Lots of advisers say they get all their new business from referral, but when you dig into things it seems that actually they don’t get a lot of referrals. The ones they get are great, but they don’t get loads […]

Why Your Advisory Practice Needs 2 Marketing Strategies

by Tony Vidler When considering advisory practice marketing the primary focus from most advisers is “How much should I spend to get a new client onboard?” While the answer will vary for everyone of course, the typical answer I hear is “maybe a couple of hundred dollars“. It follows that if you want another couple […]

Who says you can’t teach old dogs new tricks?

by Tony Vidler Old folk don’t take on new technology and new ideas, right? You just can’t teach them. Or is that “us”? Well that theory is getting blown away in a pandemic-like-way… There has been a continuous lament for years about the ageing of the financial advisory business and it is certainly true when […]

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