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Fighting Off The “Free” Advice Competitor

by Tony Vidler “Free” advice is never actually “free”, is it? None of us are silly – including the people we are talking to as prospective clients. Everyone knows advice isn’t free…it is at someone’s expense, and someone is hoping to get a payday from delivering the “free stuff” at some point. Someone […]

Good content may not be enough for your audience

by Tony Vidler Creating good content and putting it out for your target market is great marketing. It may not be enough though to simply create “good” content and put it out there in the world. Just because you have good content and you are putting out there doesn’t mean that it is […]

Productivity Tip: Prioritise the Activities that Yield the most

by Tony Vidler Managing time is not a productivity tip. Time ticks on regardless and you can’t “manage” it. What you can do is prioritise how you use it. So here’s the top productivity tip: To handle a significant workload AND get the results you want you need to prioritise the activities that yield […]

How To Make More Effective Advice Recommendations

by Tony Vidler If we can make more effective advice recommendations we increase comprehension and engagement and shorten the implementation timeframe. That’s good for everyone involved in the process. More people will follow our advice, we help more people get the outcomes they are looking for, and business is better for everyone. So […]

How To Produce Your Own Videos In The Office

by Tony Vidler I’ve lost track of how many times I’m asked “how do you produce your own videos that you put out each week?” The ugly truth is that I spend twice as long figuring out what I want to produce a video about than I do figuring out what I am […]

5 Big Reasons Why Marketing Campaigns Fail

by Tony Vidler We learn as we go in professional services, and that is especially true when it comes to analysing why marketing campaigns “fail”. To be fair, few of us are trained in marketing at all so we do have to figure it out as we go along, and there is a lot of […]

How To Become A Recognised Expert

by Tony Vidler Many financial advisers would like to become a recognised expert in a particular area, and for many of them this is a genuine opportunity which they should pursue. The competency, depth of knowledge or mastery of subject, and professionalism are all there more often than not. They are already actually experts […]

Here is how to work out WHERE to compete

by Tony Vidler A cornerstone of great strategy is understanding where to compete in the market…or rather, which area of expertise or service offering to lead with in the marketing efforts. Once the target market clients have been worked out (so we know who we want to appeal to) we have to decide […]

The 5 Steps To An Effective Advertising Campaign

by Tony Vidler To create an effective advertising campaign – one that gets you the results you wanted to begin with – there are 5 steps. Many professional services firms miss at least a couple of them, and inevitably are disappointed with the results of their advertising efforts. That is not surprising […]

The Easiest Way To Get More Referrals

by Tony Vidler The easiest method for anyone to generate and get more referrals and favourable introductions is to GIVE more referrals and introductions. This is just not done as much as it could or should by most professionals, and usually they say it is because they “didn’t think of it”. […]

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