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Marketing Your Expertise Via Webinar

by Tony Vidler Advisers attend plenty of webinars, but very few seem to use a webinar marketing program themselves for marketing to potential clients, and it is a marvellous opportunity (if done well) to really position your expertise. Prospects generally have no issue tuning in to watch broadcasts on any number of areas of interest, […]

4 Ways to make your emails more effective marketing tools!

by Tony Vidler Your emails should be effective marketing tools, because there is no doubt that the most frequently used method of business communication today is still email. One could go so far as to say it is still the dominant digital marketing medium. If it is the dominant communication medium and already costing […]

When To Take Online Engagement Offline

by Tony Vidler A frequently asked question by professionals using digital marketing is “how, and when, do I take the online engagement offline into the real world?” Let’s assume for the exercise that you have made a new connection on Linked for example. Often professionals will make new connections and then wonder what to […]

When Social Media Marketing Sucks

by Tony Vidler A lot of advisers tell me that social media marketing sucks for financial services. They know, because they have been trying to market themselves using social media and the results are not good for them. If it isn’t working it must suck, right? “Working” generally means “getting new prospects or […]

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? the Know, Like or Trust? Simple questions perhaps, however when you are first meeting prospective clients and know full well that […]

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 […]

How to influence clients with “Social Proof”

by Tony Vidler One of the primary functions of the professional adviser is to influence clients 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 […]

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

by Tony Vidler Any time of the year is the “right” time to review your marketing plan, but there are definitely times – or signs – that it should be done even if you weren’t really planning to review it this particular time. The “right time” to review your marketing plan is when […]

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 seems to be a concerrn cited as a reason to not use social media by those advisers. Various aspects of “compliance” are cited: the provision of best practice advice, privacy constraints, or legal responsibilities to a corporate stakeholder, […]

Tailoring Your Content Marketing To Fit Your Audience

by Tony Vidler One size does not fit all when it comes to content marketing: you need to tailor your content fit your audiences’ desires and needs. It needs to be made to measure as it were. As more professionals tap into the power of content marketing and create a presence on multiple […]

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