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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

Is it just a bad day or is it a bad job?
Practice Management & Strategic Issues
Is it just a bad day or is it a bad job?
Practice Management & Strategic Issues
What Value A Practice?
by Tony Vidler        Given some of the trends in financial services there must be serious questions about how to accurately value a practice of a financial adviser.   The short answer to what is an accurate value of any practice will of course always be “whatever a buyer is willing to pay, and which you […]
Sales & Marketing for Professional Services & Sales & Selling & Sales Tips
The key to successfully networking with Accountants
by Tony Vidler The key to successful professional networking is as simple as creating a win-win…everyone knows that. Networking with accountants will be successful if you know what the “win” looks like for them. Advisers historically – for all their networking and personal sales and relationship management skills – have not been terribly successful at […]
Practice Management & Professional Services & Strategic Issues
The Importance of Frequent Client Contact
by Tony Vidler        Advisers underestimate the importance of frequent client contact  and “frequent contact” is in itself a phrase that is interpreted differently amongst advisers. So how often is “frequent”?  How often is often enough?  For a long while the mantra was “be in touch every 90 days”, but that was in a time […]
Financial Advice & Value Proposition
Properly Valuing Financial Advice
by Tony Vidler        When it comes to valuing your advice to clients what is a “fair” rate or price?  $100 per hour seems pretty cheap for any professional – plumbers cost more than that, right? But what about $1,000 per hour? That’s not actually a bad rate if someone can create $5,000 of value […]
Marketing Ideas & Quick Tips Videos & Sales & Marketing for Professional Services & Value Proposition
An easy way to work out how to express the value of YOUR advice
by Tony Vidler        If you are struggling to express the value of your advice for your target market there is a way to figure it out that doesn’t require you agonising over how to come up with a clever marketing message. “Your value” could be expressed as what benefits you can deliver for them. […]