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How to work out which digital tactics are your best chance of connecting with your target market

by Tony Vidler Digital marketing MUST be on every advisers radar by now, but which digital tactics are best for your practice remains a burning question for many it seems. The answer to that depends on what you are trying to achieve from digital marketing of course, and as always, one should begin with the […]

One sure way to build an audience

by Tony Vidler As more professionals lean more on social media as an integral part of their marketing a common question is “how do I get more people following me?“. How do you guild an audience in other words. There are a lot of ways to create an audience of course, but there is […]

This is THE shift in how Professional Services marketing has changed

by Tony Vidler This is how much professional services marketing has changed in just the last few years…the head of a national real estate firm which settles 14,000 deals a year explained the marketing process and how they achieve their results. Here it is: Over 95% of all new customer enquiries now begin online. 100% of […]

It’s a No Brainer: You should already be using Digital Marketing

by Tony Vidler I still have conversations with advisers about whether they should be using digital marketing. Unbelievable, right? There are a lot of financial advisers still sitting on the fence when it comes to incorporating digital into the marketing mix, but it really is a no brainer. The perpetual marketing challenge is to […]

The 6 Necessities of Modern Marketing for Financial Advisers

by Tony Vidler I have no doubt that many financial advisers are struggling to understand what happened to their previously successful marketing methods. Marketing for financial advisers was for years – decades perhaps – a simple matter of making a lot of calls and keeping a constant source of prospective future clients coming through […]

Marketing Your Expertise Via Webinar

by Tony Vidler Advisers attend plenty of webinars, but very few seem to use a webinar marketing program themselves for marketing to potential clients, and it is a marvellous opportunity (if done well) to really position your expertise. Prospects generally have no issue tuning in to watch broadcasts on any number of areas of interest, […]

4 Ways to make your emails more effective marketing tools!

by Tony Vidler Your emails should be effective marketing tools, because there is no doubt that the most frequently used method of business communication today is still email. One could go so far as to say it is still the dominant digital marketing medium. If it is the dominant communication medium and already costing […]

When To Take Online Engagement Offline

by Tony Vidler A frequently asked question by professionals using digital marketing is “how, and when, do I take the online engagement offline into the real world?” Let’s assume for the exercise that you have made a new connection on Linked for example. Often professionals will make new connections and then wonder what to […]

When Social Media Marketing Sucks

by Tony Vidler A lot of advisers tell me that social media marketing sucks for financial services. They know, because they have been trying to market themselves using social media and the results are not good for them. If it isn’t working it must suck, right? “Working” generally means “getting new prospects or […]

Know, Like or Trust? Where do you start?

by Tony Vidler By now pretty much everyone has got the mantra that people do business with people that they know, like and trust, but which comes first? Where do you start? the Know, Like or Trust? Simple questions perhaps, however when you are first meeting prospective clients and know full well that […]

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