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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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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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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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What IS good content for sharing and engaging prospects?
by Tony Vidler        When it comes to creating GOOD content that is engaging prospects and your target audience there are a few things to get right, but most of the things you need to get right are not really about what you write or produce. So what makes really good content is not just […]
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The Gordian Knot of Getting Referrals
by Tony Vidler        Getting referrals consistently is hard for most…but oddly enough it is also easy for many.  Or is it? Lots of advisers say they get all their new business from referral, but when you dig into things it seems that actually they don’t get a lot of referrals. The ones they get […]
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Want to Cross-Sell? Then put a bit of planning into it…
by Tony Vidler        We all know that cross-selling services and products to clients is critical to maximising the value of the client relationship as well as ensuring you are delivering full value to your clients. So why is it so often neglected? In part cross-selling is skipped because so many professional advisers today do […]
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Sell holes, not drills, to get more customers
by Tony Vidler         When people go to the hardware store and buy a fantastic electric drill they are not usually terribly interested in the drill itself. They want a hole. This is an elementary truth about consumers buying behaviour  They buy products for what the products can do for them, not because they just […]
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Demonstrating Value To Make Prospects Choose You
by Tony Vidler        Successful advisers today make sure they are demonstrating value to prospects...before the prospects have agreed to engage and become clients. Having a prospect who is interested enough to hear what you have to offer has always been a necessary step on the path to getting a client, and it obviously remains […]
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