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…
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…
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…
For any marketing message to be effective there are a number of things that one has to get right – but there is a bit of a formula! The first “secret” in effective marketing messages…
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…
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…
Nobody likes a budget – even financial advisers don’t. But a marketing budget for your business is good budgeting…it’s an investment in growth. Even well established advisory firms usually want growth as they usually want…