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The 3 Elements To Hiring An Adviser Successfully
by Tony Vidler        Hiring an adviser to join the team is one of the biggest (and most expensive) steps that any adviser takes in growing their practice.   It is expensive in financial terms, in time, and most importantly in energy and stress. Getting it right is soooooo hard….and getting it wrong happens so […]
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What You Reward Must Be What You Value, right?
by Tony Vidler        Perhaps the greatest challenge for practices wishing to grow their people, profitability and professional standards is determining what you reward.  And that’s about what you value.  What behaviours you reward must be a reflection of what you really value in your business, right?   Why is it that so many firms […]
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How to introduce a “Guarantee” into your fees
by Tony Vidler        It has been proven repeatedly that providing a guarantee in your fees for prospective clients certainly helps them decide to engage – and it is not a difficult thing to do, even though “guarantee” is a dangerous word for financial advisers.   Financial advice fees can seem to be enormously expensive […]
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It Is Okay To Be Profitable
by Tony Vidler        The first rule of business is “be profitable”, and that is a concept which appears to cause industry stakeholders some issues when it comes to judging financial advisory firms.   That pisses me off to be honest.   In any number of countries there is debate driven from government, consumer advocates, […]
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Are Your Clients Or Staff Coachable?
by Tony Vidler        Here is a question we should ask when contemplating taking on new clients:   “I can coach, but are You Coachable?”   It’s a tough question perhaps.  It is certainly a confronting question at the very least.  But is an absolutely necessary question…even if we don’t ask the client directly, it […]
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Robo-Advice is here, and it is helping Advisers be better at giving advice!
by Tony Vidler         Apparently a fair proportion of advisers still do not believe that robo-advice will have a serious impact upon their business.  It will of course, and in many respects it is helping advisers to be better at what they do…giving advice.   The term “robo-advice” creates an image immediately of a machine replacing […]
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To Friend or Not-Friend With Clients on Social Media?
by Tony Vidler        Connecting with clients on social media can lead to closer relationships and even genuine friendships , which equals greater lifetime value of the client, right?  But then….it can kill professional client relationships too.   So what is the right thing to do when it comes to befriending clients on social channels; […]
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Your Constant Output Problem Is Usually Really An Input Problem
by Tony Vidler        We like constant output…constant revenue coming in the door is the output we seek right?  Too often financial advice businesses struggle to achieve constant output though…it gets a bit “peak and trough”.   Well…when we have a repeated problem – like inconsistent results – we need a process.   Why?   […]
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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 […]
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The Advisory Practice Of The Future: Advisers Should Include Robo’s
by Tony Vidler        Robo’s are a threat to advice businesses in much the same way that a chilly bin is a threat to the sale of refrigerators. Most of us own both and use both, right? The advisory practice of the future will also be embracing multiple ways of delivering what consumers want…sometimes a […]
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