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Are you willing to pay the price?
by Tony Vidler        Given the vast raft of changes and challenges facing advisers the question of whether one is willing to pay the price should be considered.  I tripped over this again a little while ago while re-visiting some classic books, which in this case was “The Feldman Method”, by Andrew H. Thomson. Ben […]
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Strategic vision for financial advisor
Are you just swimming in circles, or do you have a strategy?
by Tony Vidler        To ensure business success you must have a strategy.  But where do you begin with designing a business strategy?   It isn’t quite as hard as you may think….   First, you need to decide what you want to be known for, which then makes it relatively easy to work out […]
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How will this year be better?
by Tony Vidler        Just one question should be dominating practitioners minds at this stage of the year:   How will this year be better? HOW is the critical word here. Advisers are usually great at setting goals and targets.  They are great at analysing and doing the numbers that tell them what activity at […]
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next-year-planning
Focus On 3 Things To Make Next Year The Best Production Year Ever
by Tony Vidler        There are so many things you COULD plan to work on to improve next year, but what REALLY matters? Maybe having the best production year ever…that would be helpful.   It is easy to get caught up in making lots and lots of plans and goals and arranging to be incredibly […]
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Business planning a struggle? Perhaps you should plan “life” instead…
by Tony Vidler        When business planning is a bit of a struggle it pays to ask yourself why you went into business for yourself.   You could have had an easy job somewhere, and just made a living….but you would have gone into business for yourself because you saw it as your best chance […]
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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 […]
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Is it just a bad day or is it a bad job?
by Tony Vidler        How can you tell if you are just having a bad day on the job, or whether it is time to move on from the job completely?   There’s no escaping the fact that even in great jobs that we love, there are days where things just don’t go the way […]
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The Weekly Action Plan That Produces Consistent Results
by Tony Vidler        Having an action plan for every working week that produces consistent results is a challenge for many professionals.   Part of the challenge is that outside forces place a lot of emphasis upon “doing things right”, but the commercial needs of the firm or individual practitiioner need to be to be […]
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Zero growth is your first revenue target
by Tony Vidler        How’s this for an uplifting thought when thinking about the revenue target for your new production year: your first priority in terms of revenue production is to get back to where you are now. That’s right…the first target is to get to “zero growth”.   No matter how good you are, and […]
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The Power Of A Vision: Because your future has to start somewhere.
by Tony Vidler        Vision is the thing that initially drives all progress.  Somebody’s view of how something can be…will be….is the catalyst for achievement of great change.   Who will ever forget  the power of one mans vision: “I have a dream….”?   His vision of how the world could be.     Should be. […]
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