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You know it is time to review the marketing plan when…

by Tony Vidler It seems advisers think this is the time of the year to review their marketing plan…but perhaps any time of the year is the “right” time to review it? The “right time” to review your marketing plan is when it isn’t providing the results you wanted, or needed in your […]

Does Social Media ACTUALLY work for financial advisers?

by Tony Vidler It seems the question is still being asked by most advisers on social media: does it actually work in growing an advisory business? Remarkably, most professionals that I meet and talk to still consider social media to be some sort of “teenager or millennial thing”, or “something which doesn’t seem […]

How to influence clients with “Social Proof”

by Tony Vidler One of the primary functions of the professional adviser is to influence people to make change. Or sometimes, influence them not to change things. Our role is to manage client behaviour to help generate the desired outcomes that clients want. We must get them to act, or not act, in order to […]

Know, Like or Trust? Where do you start?

by Tony Vidler By now pretty much everyone has got the mantra that people do business with people that they know, like and trust, but which comes first? Where do you start on building that presence, or relationship? Simple questions perhaps, however when you are first meeting prospective clients and know full well that you […]

One sure way to build an audience

by Tony Vidler As more professionals start to tap into the power and reach of social media a common question is “how do I get more people following me?” There are a lot of ways to create an audience of course, but there is one method which doesn’t get spoken of very […]

It’s a No Brainer: You should already be using Digital Marketing

by Tony Vidler I still have conversations with advisers about whether they should be using digital marketing. There are a lot of financial advisers still sitting on the fence when it comes to incorporating digital into the marketing mix, but it really is a no brainer. The perpetual marketing challenge is to get […]

How To Crack The Content Creation Conundrum

by Tony Vidler Content Creation appears to be the Number 1 barrier for professionals wanting to use digital marketing tactics. Inevitably I seem to hear “……Yeah, I think social media would be useful….but I have nothing to write about and nothing to say….” Creating content is an issue. Just as big an […]

3 things will get you attention and traction with Twitter.

by Tony Vidler “How should I use Twitter” is the question which follows the decision to embrace it. In other words, how do you get Twitter attention and then get traction with a following? There has been a paradigm shift in recent years as more and more information is available, and on more […]

Compliance & social media use for financial advisers

How Advisers can remain compliant while using social media

by Tony Vidler The difficulty of using social media but remaining compliant as a financial adviser and not breaching any regulations seems to be a consistent objection to the use of social media by advisers. Various aspects of “compliance” are cited: the provision of best practice advice, privacy constraints, or legal responsibilities to a […]

The 6 Necessities of Modern Marketing for Financial Advisers

by Tony Vidler I have no doubt that many financial advisers are struggling to understand what happened to their previously successful marketing methods. For years – decades perhaps – they have been able to keep a constant source of prospective future clients coming through the front doors, yet for most this is now a […]

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