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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 […]

Make Your Marketing A Money Machine

by Tony Vidler One of the essentials for practice growth is to build a marketing machine that keeps producing money. A money machine which is a combination of mini-systems and components that keeps the whole motor running at full speed. Most professionals have elements of the marketing machine…but just elements. They haven’t built […]

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 […]

Get better marketing results by using what’s in your hand

by Tony Vidler Every adviser wants better marketing results – no matter how good the existing results are. We want more, because in more or better marketing results lies the ability to leverage our businesses. Yet in the constant search for more or better many advisers are overlooking the thing in their hands: their […]

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 […]

Strategic Alliances are Smart Marketing

by Tony Vidler It is hard work perhaps but creating strategic alliances is one of the smartest business building moves a practice can make. Perhaps it is because it is not an easy or quick thing to do that so many professional services businesses never do it, but those that do reap the rewards […]

Marketing NEVER Stops For Today’s Adviser

by Tony Vidler I was asked “when should I slow down or stop the marketing?” Answer: “Your marketing never stops. Never.” The rationale behind the question was the adviser has a good and large business – there are enough clients right now. So it wasn’t a stupid question by any stretch. But here […]

Little Giveaways Can Generate Recomendations

by Tony Vidler If you want to generate recommendations from clients and prospects it pays to understand how it is a different process from getting referrals, and if referrals are “the gold medal” then recommendations are the “silver”. Not the ultimate perhaps, but well worth having, and arguable a little easier to get. […]

Which prospecting method delivers the best results?

by Tony Vidler The prospecting method that keeps on delivering the most opportunities is Referrals. A distant second in the source of new clients for advice firms is Centre of Influence referrals. Research by the Financial Planning Association showed that on average in the previous year some 34% of new clients came from […]

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