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8 Reasons Financial Advisers Should Have A Blog

by Tony Vidler Every financial adviser should have a blog by now…especially now when so many consumers have so many questions about money, and so much time to google them, and so many opinions to read that it is overwhelming. Becoming a trusted voice online has probably never been easier for an adviser in […]

Financial Advisers Digital Marketing Starter Pack

by Tony Vidler If you are an adviser who has mastered digital marketing then you don’t need to read this. If you’re an adviser who thinks having a website IS the digital marketing plan, then you need to read on. My reason for being that blunt at the outset is that I want to just […]

Advisers should use Facebook – and think like clients when doing it

by Tony Vidler Most Advisers using digital marketing today have Facebook as part of their marketing strategy, and I see most using it wrong in my view. Facebook can be an immensely powerful element of your content marketing, or engagement marketing, if it is used well. The key to using it effectively is […]

Pitching Your Marketing To The Target Client’s Buying Journey

by Tony Vidler Every practice needs to be pitching their marketing efforts at the ideal point in the target market’s buying process, because no practice has enough money and time to cover every possibility. Today’s consumers go through a process of engaging with professionals which is a little different to the consumers of 20 years […]

What is the point of an expensive CRM system?

by Tony Vidler An adviser who plans on being in the business for another couple of decades asked what the point is in paying for an expensive and fancy CRM system. Honest. He did ask that. He has a list of clients in Outlook and has the clients home addresses, phone numbers, and sometimes […]

Listen to the market or get out while you can

by Tony Vidler “Two Ears but only one mouth”…blah blah blah…sales training 101, right? We know how important it is to “listen” to clients, and we know the danger of losing touch with what they want and what they are thinking. Every single professional has lost good clients at some point simply because […]

An advisers engagement process might look something like this…

by Tony Vidler It is a rarity for a new customer to walk in off the street and just decide to buy some insurance or an investment product or a bit of planning from you, right? That probably hasn’t happened for 10 years (if ever!). So how do they decide to buy […]

Prospecting Today: It is a process, not a thing

by Tony Vidler Prospecting today is a continual process, not a series of one off actions as it once was. Eons ago when financial advisory work was essentially just a continual series of product sales the prospecting required to be successful was repetitive and continual, but each prospecting call was a one-time […]

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