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How to introduce a “Guarantee” into your fees

by Tony Vidler It has been proven repeatedly that providing a guarantee in your fees for prospective clients certainly helps them decide to engage – and it is not a difficult thing to do, even though “guarantee” is a dangerous word for financial advisers. Financial advice fees can seem to be enormously expensive […]

Create Effective Advertising By Starting With These 2 Things

by Tony Vidler At some point every adviser struggles to create effective advertising. It’s not our coe skill of course, but typically the “struggle” is because 2 really big things are overlooked… Why are you doing it in the first place? Who are you doing it to attract? All the hard work […]

An easy way to create content when you don’t feel creative

by Tony Vidler Building an engaged audience of future prospects requires us to create content in todays environment. We need to feed the search engine machines, and we need to continually deliver content which educates or empowers those with whom we wish to do business. They take time to decide who to choose to […]

How much Know-How should you give away for free?

by Tony Vidler It is difficult to work out how much of your expertise or know-how you should give away for free isn’t it? Most professionals give away free hours as part of their marketing to try and engage new clients, and in some professions even give away entire services which have become commoditized, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Use Visual Aids To Create Better Advice Engagement

by Tony Vidler Advisers try to create simplicity from complexity, and the most effective way of doing that is to use visual aids. They create quicker understanding and better engagement simply because most people find it easier to comprehend new or difficult information when it is presented visually. We all know from personal […]

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 […]

Looking beyond the obvious for strategic alliance partners

by Tony Vidler Great alliances with other businesses will enhance your brand and put you in front of more ideal prospects that you don’t have to find yourself. That is really the key benefit of having strategic alliance partners. There is a tendency however for most advisers to go after the same sort […]

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 […]

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