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5 Big Reasons Why Marketing Campaigns Fail

April 7, 2026

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…

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The 5 Steps To An Effective Advertising Campaign

March 20, 2026

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…

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How Effective is Advertising For Lead Generation?

January 27, 2023

Lead generation advertising is one of those things that every firm considers and is willing to do…but only if they are confident it will work. And every firm has seen too much of it that…

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8 Seconds to Get – or Lose – Your Prospect. Maybe less.

March 25, 2022

You will get or lose your prospect – your potential future client – in just 8 seconds….well, actually it is a lot less than that. The clock is ticking…and a lot faster than you realise.…

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Maybe Financial Advisers Could Be Selling Coffee?

January 28, 2022

Do you remember when petrol stations competed on client service? Fundamentally they were all selling the same basic commodity, at about the same price, to anyone who drove up. That included the regulars who lived…

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Unbundling Planning To Get More Client Engagement

November 15, 2021

Unbundling planning creates higher numbers of prospects and clients engaging in full financial planning, and can lead to higher revenue per client as well. More clients engaging in more comprehensive advice and creating higher lifetime…

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Create Effective Advertising By Starting With These 2 Things

July 28, 2021

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…

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Is Advertising For Lead Generation Dead?

April 9, 2021

I’ve been running a terribly unscientific survey to find out if advertising for lead generation is dead for todays financial advisers. Basically the deeply analytical process has consisted of me asking advisers continually for the…

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