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Marketing Your Expertise Via Webinar

by Tony Vidler Advisers attend plenty of webinars, but very few seem to use a webinar marketing program themselves for marketing to potential clients, and it is a marvellous opportunity (if done well) to really position your expertise. Prospects generally have no issue tuning in to watch broadcasts on any number of areas of interest, […]

First, Become Famous In Your Neighbourhood

by Tony Vidler Where are your advertising dollars, and efforts, going to get the best return? It seems that the majority of small businesses get the majority of their new clients from their local area, which is not terribly surprising given that most professional service businesses largely compete on “convenience”. Without a compelling value […]

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

by Tony Vidler 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 proportion of the market place that values convenience above all else. We all know, because we […]

An easy way to get noticed in a busy world by Prospects

by Tony Vidler You often have to do something different to cut through the market noise and get noticed by prospects. In the digital age it can be remarkably effective to go low-tech, and re-visit some of the old ways. There is little doubt that very few people invest the time in creating and […]

How to get your prospects attention…and keep it.

by Tony Vidler Sad but true apparently: The average Goldfish has a greater attention span than the average human reader. That presents a bit of a challenge when it comes to us getting prospects’ attention and then holding it long enough to make our point and get them interested in engaging with us. If […]

How to create more compelling offers

by Tony Vidler What financial advisers do is valuable, but it is often not compelling. To creating more compelling offers we need to bring the long term into short term focus, and the secret to that is defining short term gain. Becvause retirement is so far away…there’s plenty of time to do stuff, right? […]

How To Crack The Content Creation Conundrum

by Tony Vidler Content Creation appears to be the Number 1 barrier for professionals wanting to use digital marketing tactics. Inevitably I seem to hear “……Yeah, I think social media would be useful….but I have nothing to write about and nothing to say….“ Creating content is an issue. Just as big an […]

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5 basic tips for helping your next customers find you

by Tony Vidler In a perfect world customers find you, rather than you having to find them. The world is never entirely perfect of course, but certainly we can often do better in having customers find us…and the good news is that today’s customers are out there looking for the right provider. We […]

You know it is time to review the marketing plan when…

by Tony Vidler Any time of the year is the “right” time to review your marketing plan, but there are definitely times – or signs – that it should be done even if you weren’t really planning to review it this particular time. The “right time” to review your marketing plan is when […]

Engage With Your New Connections To Get On With Business

by Tony Vidler So you have some new connections on LinkedIn…congratulations. What now? Or rather, what next? How does actual engagement begine? Making new connections via LinkedIn is great…but it is better if you can take those new connections and turn them into meaningful engagement and conversation. It is a business-to-business platform […]

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