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How to engage clients in a review of financial advice

Your Philosophy MIGHT Be Your Real Point of Difference

by Tony Vidler Advisers often struggle to articulate their point of difference, yet they usually can easily express well thought out beliefs and philosophies about money and planning. So most advisers think carefully about such things and build up a philosophy based upon their formal learning and real world experience that shapes their advice […]

Maybe Financial Advisers Could Be Selling Coffee?

by Tony Vidler Do you remember when petrol stations competed on client service? Fundamentally they were all selling the same basic commodity, at about the same price, to anyone who drove up. That included the regulars who lived in the area and who had high lifetime value and the out-of-towners cruising through who just needed […]

Getting More Prospects To Buy Your Advice

by Tony Vidler To get prospects to buy your advice and change direction you have to “sell emotion” and support it with logic, right? Not quite….there is a piece missing in this formula which is is largely accepted as the methodology for selling intangibles I believe. I believe that the missing ingredient is […]

Do you really know what your clients want?

by Tony Vidler Do you really know what your clients want? A classic mistake that professionals tend to repeat is assuming that their clients all want the same thing, which coincidentally is the very thing that the professional specialises in. There are usually 2 things wrong with this assumption: clients are not all […]

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