Value Proposition

How are you planning to differentiate and stand out?

March 12, 2024

You have to differentiate to stand out and attract business…but where do you do that. How do you do that? Well, it begins by thinking strategically about where you want to do it. I remembering…

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You fix financial worries…so why not market that?

January 23, 2024

It seems pretty much everyone has financial worries. “Investors spend 475 hours a year worrying about money” apparently. Well I bet the people who don’t have enough to be considered “investors” spend a heck of…

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Financial Advisers Should Be Coaching

September 5, 2023

Coaching is about changing behaviour in order to change results. Advising is telling people what, and perhaps how, something should be done. Advising is basically “having the answer” and telling someone what it is in…

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Financial Advisers Problem? Not doing the One Thing.

July 21, 2023

Advisers have a few problems these days. The biggest financial adviser problem though is getting prospects to engage with us to begin with. Despite a couple of decades of positioning, developing and improving technical knowledge…

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Where should your Professional Development focus be: becoming a Brilliant Technician or an Orchestrator running the show?

June 16, 2023

Professional development is all the rage…the regulators and the professional associations and training providers in the compliance space are all putting it top of mind continuously. And virtually all of them have an extremely narrow…

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Just a little different is enough to stand out

May 22, 2023

In order to be different, and stand out in a positive way in a crowded and noisy marketplace, it pays to do things a little differently to your key competitors. But just “A little differently”…

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If you have no better way to market yourself, there is this…

May 5, 2023

When all else fails and you are at a loss to market yourself effectively the easiest marketing path is to sell “convenience”. One thing you can count on is that there will be a significant…

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creating brand advocates for ongoing referral business

Creating A Client Advocate Culture

April 28, 2023

In an ideal world all of our clients would become active advocates for us…and each client advocate would be the key driver of new business and growth in our practice, wouldn’t it? Our clients would…

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