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How clients choose a Financial Adviser when they all seem the same

by Tony Vidler How do clients choose a financial adviser to use when everyone looks about the same? Sure there are individual differences in the human beings, with the full range of beautiful people, and those who are beautiful only to their mothers perhaps, and all the different skin tones and body shapes that […]

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How to position yourself for referrals from clients

by Tony Vidler Getting referrals on an ongoing basis from happy clients largely comes down to positioning for them correctly. Put some thought into how you will position the expectation, and when you will do it in your client engagement, to increase your chances of success. Most importantly though, earn the right to them and […]

It’s Prime Networking Time!

by Tony Vidler There are two types of advisers at this time of year: 1. those who begin finding it tough to close out the game 2. those who are already started on a new game. Typically in December & January most clients are trying to close out their own business games….get THEIR jobs […]

The Words We Choose To Use Have Power

by Tony Vidler If we want to give ourselves the best chance possible of influencing clients and prospects to change course, which is what professional advice is all about really, then there is no doubt that the words we choose to use can make an enormous difference. Enough experts have done enough research over enough […]

Time Management Problem? Try Planning Your "Perfect Week" To Begin With…

by Tony Vidler Why is time management such an issue for professionals when they are good at planning? We can take it as a given that financial advisers and financial planners are good at planning generally. And they are very good at operational planning, which is that stuff that often gets referred to as […]

Want Prospects To Open Up? Learn from the Pro’s who make millions doing it for a living…

by Tony Vidler We need prospects to open up if we are to to do our jobs well and help them as much as possible. That takes a bit more thought and skill than merely flicking between open and closed questions. In today’s world with it’s much greater emphasis upon individual opinion and with our […]

Content for your marketing has never been easier…just get it delivered.

by Tony Vidler Content marketing is resonating with financial advisers but many still struggle with working out what content to share, and most still think they have to create it all themselves. Yet getting content for your marketing has never been easier. So it shouldn’t be the barrier to improving, or increasing, engagement that many […]

The Case Study is an incredibly powerful (and under-utilised) Adviser marketing tool

by Tony Vidler The case study is without doubt one of the most effective marketing tools a professional can use today as clients demand more and more content which engages them and highlights expertise. It is one of the more powerful marketing tools for professionals services, and appears to be largely ignored by professionals. It […]

How to Position To Get The Right Referrals

by Tony Vidler Getting referrals is difficult enough for many, but to get the right referrals is even tougher. It’s always nice to get any referral of course, but it doesn’t help if we do get a referral and it is someone that we just can’t deliver great value to. So we do want to […]

How often is too often to send emails?

by Tony Vidler “How often should I send emails?” is the perpetual question asked by advisers who are beginning to build an engagement marketing system or lifting their client communications and services standards. There is not a magic number that applies to everyone I am sorry to say. The objective is to find that […]

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