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The Gordian Knot of Getting Referral Business
by Tony Vidler        Getting referral business is hard…but oddly enough it is also easy. Lots of advisers say they get all their new business from referral, but when you dig into things it seems that actually they don’t get a lot of referrals. The ones they get are great, but they don’t get loads […]
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Why Your Advisory Practice Needs 2 Marketing Strategies
by Tony Vidler        When considering advisory practice marketing the primary focus from most advisers is “How much should I spend to get a new client onboard?” While the answer will vary for everyone of course, the typical answer I hear is “maybe a couple of hundred dollars“. It follows that if you want another couple […]
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Who says you can’t teach old dogs new tricks?
by Tony Vidler        Old folk don’t take on new technology and new ideas, right? You just can’t teach them. Or is that “us”? Well that theory is getting blown away in a pandemic-like-way…   There has been a continuous lament for years about the ageing of the financial advisory business and it is certainly true when […]
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Innovation in delivering Financial Advice: Does it have to be this way?
by Tony Vidler        “Innovation” and “delivering financial advice” do not usually go together for the majority in the industry. The way advice is delivered by tens of thousands of professionals tends to gravitate to the same methodology.  There is safety hiding in the herd, right?     Then the  type of advice delivered by tens […]
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Position Advice Properly as Success Coaching
by Tony Vidler        The perennial challenge in selling advice is positioning it as valuable, and we should think about it and describe it the right way: great advice is about coaching. It IS coaching.   Giving advice is all about analysing the desired outcomes for clients, weighing up the possibilities, deciding on the optimal […]
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Becoming Elite Comes From Being Just 1% Better
by Tony Vidler        Becoming an elite adviser, or building an elite practice doesn’t come about by chance.  It takes graft and grit…and help. Building a great business is rarely the result of a single champion taking on the world.  The champion business owner is usually the captain of a team that has taken on the […]
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