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Your Reputation IS Your Personal Brand – and that matters most

by Tony Vidler For most advisers the only brand that truly matters is, or should be, their reputation. It IS their personal brand. The corporate brand, or licensees brand, or dealer group or favourite financial insititutions…they are secondary to YOUR brand. And when it comes to your personal brand, reputation is everything really. A […]

How to make sure email marketing is effective

by Tony Vidler Effective email marketing is a lot tougher now than just 2 or 3 years ago, yet it is still one of the most effective marketing methods available if we get it right. In the old days, say 4 years ago, a good mailing list together with a branded email platform and great […]

The Ultimate Personal Brand Position: Own A Word

by Tony Vidler The ultimate goal in building a strong personal brand is to own a word in your target markets mind. It may be own a phrase rather than own “a word” of course, but the point is you want to be KNOWN for something. You want to create a position where your target […]

Top Of Mind Awareness: Being Present Without Being A Nuisance

by Tony Vidler Promoting our personal professional brand is essentially all about creating top-of-mind-awareness. Being the person that our target market thinks of, and then calls, when they recognise a need or desire is our goal. We want to be “top of mind”. To achieve that we must master the art of being present, but without […]

How to work out which digital tactics are your best chance of connecting with your target market

by Tony Vidler Digital marketing MUST be on every advisers radar by now, but which digital tactics are best for your practice remains a burning question for many it seems. The answer to that depends on what you are trying to achieve from digital marketing of course, and as always, one should begin with the […]

Give yourself a better chance of having prospects engage you

by Tony Vidler There is one simple thing that advisers should do to improve the probability that prospects will engage you: Talk about the outcomes you create for clients rather than talking jargon. In engagement letters and scope of service documents, as well as in advertising brochures or online, too many advisers list their expertise […]

Get Writing To Leverage Your Brand

by Tony Vidler Whether you realise it or not you have a brand, and ideally you want your brand to be attracting ideal clients. The problem with most prospecting and lead generation activities for most advisers and firms is that they aim at capturing one prospective client at a time. There is no significant […]

Helping Consumers Compare Solutions Will Lead Them To You

by Tony Vidler Todays consumers will compare before deciding who to use or what to buy, so help them do that. If you help consumers compare solutions well, it will lead them to choose you as their trusted source of advice. The typical buying behaviour for discerning consumers today includes “research & learn” as they […]

Do you have to be unique professionally to have a strong USP?

by Tony Vidler No. YOU do NOT have to be unique professionally to have a strong USP or differentiator. People mistakenly believe that they have to find their “uniqueness” in order to be able to articulate their value to the market with a unique selling proposition. But your professional uniqueness doesn’t really matter in […]

Create Video’s To Improve Your Client Service Experience

by Tony Vidler Most advisory firms don’t create videos of their own it seems. So, most advisory firms do not appear to have taken advantage of the consumer appetite for video, or how they can improve client service & experience (& efficiency) by creating their own videos. It seems they have not done so […]

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