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How often is too often to send emails?

by Tony Vidler “How often should I send emails?” is the perpetual question asked by advisers who are beginning to build an engagement marketing system or lifting their client communications and services standards. There is not a magic number that applies to everyone I am sorry to say. The objective is to find that […]

How to make sure email marketing is effective

by Tony Vidler Effective email marketing is a lot tougher now than just 2 or 3 years ago, yet it is still one of the most effective marketing methods available if we get it right. In the old days, say 4 years ago, a good mailing list together with a branded email platform and great […]

A simple way to boost your marketing impact with your daily emails

by Tony Vidler Have you thought about the marketing impact you could get with your daily emails? Probably not, because rarely do we think of the 60-100 emails we send 1-to-1 daily as “marketing” so we also don’t think of them in terms of having a potential return on investment either. But we should…in fact […]

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. Marketing for financial advisers was for years – decades perhaps – a simple matter of making a lot of calls and keeping a constant source of prospective future clients coming through […]

3 Must Haves For Effective Marketing Copy

by Tony Vidler For marketing copy to be truly effective it must have “readability”. If something is easy to read and comprehend quickly then it will be effective – assuming the actual message wasn’t rubbish to begin with. If you have a good offer, or story, or service and can word that well then […]

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 […]

How to make Email Marketing even more effective

by Tony Vidler Email marketing is a proven winner if done well, and one which is almost made for professional services firms to use more effectively than other sectors perhaps There are some fundamentals which go into making any email marketing campaign good of course, and we cover some of those in this weeks […]

We should be using more video with email

by Tony Vidler If you aren’t using video with email to educate and engage clients and prospects yet, why not? It seems an odd thing with everyone having smart phones that can take high quality video’s on the spot, and with everyone also drafting and sending perhaps a 100 emails a day, but […]

What is “Good” Content To Use In Your Marketing?

by Tony Vidler With prospects taking longer than ever to convert into clients, “good” content has become king as that is what keeps them engaged as they move along their buying journey. Notice I said “good” content…..not just any old content. But what is “good”? Content which is good is the content which […]

5 Big Reasons Why Marketing Campaigns Fail

by Tony Vidler We learn as we go in professional services, and that is especially true when it comes to analysing why marketing campaigns “fail”. To be fair, few of us are trained in marketing at all so we do have to figure it out as we go along, and there is a lot of […]

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