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Professional Selling: It is a real thing!
by Tony Vidler        Professional and selling are apparently 2 words which according to many just don’t go together these days…except they really do.  I’ll go further in fact and say that professionals MUST be selling, but, selling must be professional.   While there is an absolute requirement to place the clients interests above all […]
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Did You Do A Good Days’ Work?
by Tony Vidler        With all the report writing and problem solving it is often difficult to feel like you did a good days’ work…you were busy for sure, but was it a good days’ work?  Or was it just being busy on “stuff”?   There is a simple test for any professional feeling buried […]
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Complicated products have owners manuals, why don’t ours?
by Tony Vidler        face it: our products are complicated as far as clients and prospects are concerned.   The funny thing is, nearly all of the products we buy are pretty complicated these days.  Even though we men folk tend to ignore them to begin with, most of the complicated products come with explanations […]
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Great Advisers Stay Simple
by Tony Vidler        One of my favourite quotes of all time is by Einstein: “If you cannot explain it simply then you do not understand it well enough” and nowhere is this more true than in providing advice in complex areas. Great advisers stay simple when handling complex matters.   It is not easy […]
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Dropping the “Who Do You Know” bomb is dumb.
by Tony Vidler        One of the time-tested techniques of sales is to obtain referrals by dropping a “who do you know” bomb on them…and it is dumb.   It has never actually worked all that well really, and it works even less well today.   Adding an extra word in there doesn’t make it […]
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The BEST Prospecting Question Ever
by Tony Vidler        One of the areas which you would think would dominate our prospecting activities is one where many professionals struggle: getting friends and associates onboard as clients.   A fantastic adviser that I knew well and who is since retired working in rural town in New Zealand managed to be one of […]
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The Benefits Of A Prepared “Sales Script” (and the steps to making one)
by Tony Vidler        Everyone you talk to hates sales scripts – especially clients and prospects.  Professionals hate them nearly as much.       I love them.  And I think professionals should love them too.       It is probably one of the most under-rated “steps to success”  because there is a perception […]
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Talk is cheap…but the returns are fantastic
by Tony Vidler        Word-of-mouth remains the best marketing professionals can use, or get. The next best is “talk”.  Talk to clients and prospects directly.  One-to-one…actually spending time communicating directly with each other…voice to voice…human to human.   While I love using digital and leveraging it to communicate to as many people as possible, and it […]
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Be like George…share your story!
by Tony Vidler        Professionals should take a leaf out of George’s playbook and share their story.   Be like George.   Who is George?   He’s just a young man who is trying to get ahead in life and who took the initiative to get out and start marketing himself – and is doing […]
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“My Phone is My Life” – Smartphones mean smarter marketing is needed
by Tony Vidler        Today’s professionals know it because we are them: Our smartphone is our life.   Is our marketing smart enough in the smartphone world though?   In little old New Zealand alone there are now more phones than humans, and 70% of the humans are using smartphones.  In fact they are using […]
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