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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 […]

The Continuous Cycle That Is Social Media Marketing

by Tony Vidler Marketing via social media is a bit like riding a bike: you have to keep pedalling that cycle or the lack of momentum will make it fall over. Many professionals beginning with social media as part of their marketing mix fail to recognise that continual movement is a critical part of making […]

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 […]

Lead Nurturing: “Me luv you long time” actually pays off

by Tony Vidler It’s funny how the phrase “me luv you long time” has become iconic while being used as a blatant untruth. The way it is used in modern pop culture is to highlight precisely the opposite attitude – me no luv you much at all, but me luv your money. Adopting this […]

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 […]

smartphone means smarter marketing needed

“My Phone is My Life” – Smartphones mean smarter marketing is needed

by Tony Vidler Today’s professionals know it because we are them: Our smartphone is our life. Is our marketing smart enough in the smartphone world though? In little old New Zealand alone there are now more phones than humans, and 70% of the humans are using smartphones. In fact they are using […]

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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