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The problem with Professional Development programs
by Tony Vidler Most professional development programmes for financial advisers end up being vaguely disappointing for the participants. Often the feeling is that the training is a bit too academic or theoretical and hard to implement in one’s practice…but the real reason why training fails is because it doesn’t address all the necessary components.  In […]
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Make your client testimonials REALLY stand out!
by Tony Vidler        Yeah, yeah, yeah….Client testimonials are good. We should all collect them. We should all display them on our website and stuff…. …but then line after line of typed text just looks the same as everyone else’s, and they lose impact don’t they?  Especially when potential clients know that we aren’t going […]
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Give clients time to think and “Buy In” with this simple technique
by Tony Vidler         Wanting client buy in? Then there is a wonderfully simple technique that all professionals should be using every time they make a recommendation…. …of the challenge giving advice in what is usually a difficult area for consumers to comprehend easily or rapidly.  Consumers usually need a few seconds longer in processing time […]
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Process Creates Profit!
by Tony Vidler        That word “process” is just deadly for so many advisers today that too many won’t have bothered reading this far…but process creates profit. “Process” has become associated simply with compliance in delivering financial advice, but process is way more than that.  Process is proven successful methodology being repeated. Processes become the […]
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How to double the conversion rate on your opportunities
by Tony Vidler        Imagine the difference to your business if you were able to double the conversion rate on your opportunities.  You spend the same money and effort  but get twice as many sales as a result…it would add quite a bit to your bottom line wouldn’t it? The decades old strategy of just crunching […]
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Ask the expert? Be The Expert That Gets Asked!
by Tony Vidler        It is so easy today to get yourself “in print” and be positioned to be the expert that target market customers ask for advice, and being the expert that gets asked leads to those customers putting in place solutions with you. Setting up chat forums, blogs, ezines and so on are all […]
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Could you be a Thought Leader Adviser?
by Tony Vidler         Business would be easier if people recognised their problems and knew you were the one with the answers, and they just came straight to you to get them solved, right? To achieve that you should be positioning as a thought leader. THE subject matter experts expert. To put it in its […]
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Do you REALLY want to be a Great Adviser?
by Tony Vidler         An adviser told me that they wanted to be “great”…a GREAT adviser.  My immediate thought was would you prefer being considered “great” to having a great business, because you might be able to have both, but then, you might not either.  Then I thought “isn’t it healthier and far more enjoyable to […]
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How To Get (and “do”) Client Testimonial Video’s
by Tony Vidler        One of the most powerful marketing tactics is getting client testimonial video’s. Yet, the majority of advisory firms do not appear to have really taken advantage of the consumer appetite for video or how they can use video to improve client service & experience as yet, and it seems they have […]
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The simple prospecting system from the worlds greatest ever salesman
by Tony Vidler        According to the Guiness Book Of World Records the greatest salesman in the world was Joe Girard. Joe sold cars…an incredible 13,001 cars sold in his career.  One at a time…working “retail” with high priced items.  And selling the same things, at the same price, as a heck of a lot […]
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