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Getting to the point where “Ideal Prospects Call Me!”

January 20, 2026

Who doesn’t want to be getting to the point where “ideal prospects call me” – and preferably continuously. Being so busy with new client opportunities that you just can’t handle them….So many incoming calls from…

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Is Acquisition – or Merger – Worth It?

December 2, 2025

Many firms facing increased overheads and infrastructure costs in the next few years are considering acquisition or merger strategies as a survival or growth strategy. Generally there appears to be 5 main reasons that advisers…

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Words Matter…they can change the choices that prospects make!

September 30, 2025

The words that financial advisers choose to use matter more than ever before if we want people to follow our advice given that professional advice is inevitably presented in written form at some point, resulting…

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How Big Is The Goldmine WITHIN An Advisers’ Practice?

September 19, 2025

Just how much opportunity is sitting inside the typical adviser practice? How much new business is waiting inside that existing database? It’s a goldmine. A report from a few years ago highlighted the point that…

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Is it just a bad day or is it a bad job?

September 12, 2025

How can you tell if you are just having a bad day on the job, or whether it is time to move on from the job completely? There’s no escaping the fact that even in…

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What Financial Advisers Could Be Better At…”Being There”

August 5, 2025

There is something that financial advisers are proving to be not good at doing: That is “Being There”. In this country Statistics NZ compile data from the census every few years and there is a…

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Being A Thought Leader Does Not Mean Being “First”

June 6, 2025

Creating a position as a thought leader is superb marketing for professionals, and all too often they confuse “being a thought leader” with simply “being first”. The rush to be “first” to express an opinion…

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Publishing Content. Or, becoming an authority if you prefer

May 27, 2025

Every professional should aspire to becoming an Authority to their chosen audience in my view. The ideal is you have top-of-mind-awareness with your target market of course, but more than just being the first person…

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