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There are prospects for you on Twitter

by Tony Vidler Twitter is crowded and noisy and it can be difficult to get found by your prospects…but there ARE a few things you can do that will help them find you. There are prospects for you on Twitter… Because Twitter is full of prospects who are engaged. That is one of […]

Reaching todays “common client”

by Tony Vidler Reaching todays common client is not easy for professionals. They are easy to find for sure, but reaching them and getting their attention is something else again. When you consider how a buying process happens today it becomes a lot easier to understand why it is so hard – and what […]

Get better marketing results by using what’s in your hand

by Tony Vidler Every adviser wants better marketing results – no matter how good the existing results are. We want more, because in more or better marketing results lies the ability to leverage our businesses. Yet in the constant search for more or better many advisers are overlooking the thing in their hands: their […]

How to engage your Facebook fans

by Tony Vidler The biggest social media platform on the planet – everyone is there. So how best to engage with all these potential Facebook company page fans who just might one day become clients, or at the very least become advocates? Professional services firms seem to struggle more than most other businesses […]

When Your Sales Numbers Suck…

by Tony Vidler Sometimes the best thing an adviser can do is admit to themselves that their sales numbers just suck. It’s the age-old “you can’t improve something until you admit that there is something wrong with it“. The reason for pointing out the obvious here is that there are plenty of […]

What The Kardashian’s Can Teach Us About Reputation Marketing

by Tony Vidler For many successful advisers their reputation is the critical marketing success factor in their careers. And who has done reputation marketing – or “famous just for being famous” – better than the Kardashians? Reputation in professional services often drives more recommendations or referrals that lead to new business than practitioners […]

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? […]

The powerful marketing tool that you use every day, but hardly use for actual marketing

by Tony Vidler The most powerful marketing tool most professionals have is the one they use scores of times daily, but which they usually do not do any actual marketing with. email. Love it or loathe it, we all use it. It is not going away anytime soon, and it is not about […]

How to create engaging conversations

by Tony Vidler Creating engaging conversations with people you don’t know well, or who feel they don’t know you well enough, is difficult. It can be even more difficult when they are guarded…thinking maybe that you are just there to sell them something. You can engage even the most guarded and difficult prospects […]

Create Top Of Mind Awareness With Your Own Clients First

by Tony Vidler Who do most people turn to first for financial advice? Whoever is “top of mind”…and who is that usually? Their family. Research in multiple countries and jurisdictions repeatedly shows that the number one source of advice for consumers who do not currently take financial advice from a professional […]

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