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Prospecting Idea: Reconnect to Create New Opportunities

by Tony Vidler A simple prospecting idea which usually pays off is simply re-connecting with those who you have spent time with, but did not do any business with. I am talking about “prospects” from 6 months ago…or 12 months ago. There are always people we are seeing who are potentially great customers, but for […]

Want to Cross-Sell? Then put a bit of planning into it…

by Tony Vidler We all know that cross-selling services and products to clients is critical to maximising the value of the client relationship as well as ensuring you are delivering full value to your clients. So why is it so often neglected? In part cross-selling is skipped because so many professional advisers today do […]

This Is Why Most Centre-Of-Influence Referral Marketing Efforts Fail

by Tony Vidler When it comes to referral marketing efforts there are basically two types of consistent ongoing referrers you can cultivate: 1. happy & satisfied clients 2. centres-of-influence The second category is the one that many advisers struggle with particularly, and the reason they struggle is because they try to develope the wrong […]

Sell holes, not drills, to get more customers

by Tony Vidler When people go to the hardware store and buy a fantastic electric drill they are not usually terribly interested in the drill itself. They want a hole. This is an elementary truth about consumers buying behaviour They buy products for what the products can do for them, not because they just […]

Demonstrating Value To Make Prospects Choose You

by Tony Vidler Successful advisers today make sure they are demonstrating value to prospects...before the prospects have agreed to engage and become clients. Having a prospect who is interested enough to hear what you have to offer has always been a necessary step on the path to getting a client, and it obviously remains […]

How clients choose a Financial Adviser when they all seem the same

by Tony Vidler How do clients choose a financial adviser to use when everyone looks about the same? Sure there are individual differences in the human beings, with the full range of beautiful people, and those who are beautiful only to their mothers perhaps, and all the different skin tones and body shapes that […]

It’s Prime Networking Time!

by Tony Vidler There are two types of advisers at this time of year: 1. those who begin finding it tough to close out the game 2. those who are already started on a new game. Typically in December & January most clients are trying to close out their own business games….get THEIR jobs […]

Want Prospects To Open Up? Learn from the Pro’s who make millions doing it for a living…

by Tony Vidler We need prospects to open up if we are to to do our jobs well and help them as much as possible. That takes a bit more thought and skill than merely flicking between open and closed questions. In today’s world with it’s much greater emphasis upon individual opinion and with our […]

You Need A “Tight 5” For Ongoing New Business Success

by Tony Vidler You want new business and new clients, right? When it comes to building an audience of influencers, advocates, raving fans and interested spectators who will all send business your way, it all begins with having your own Tight 5. If you follow rugby you probably know where I am heading straight away, […]

Content for your marketing has never been easier…just get it delivered.

by Tony Vidler Content marketing is resonating with financial advisers but many still struggle with working out what content to share, and most still think they have to create it all themselves. Yet getting content for your marketing has never been easier. So it shouldn’t be the barrier to improving, or increasing, engagement that many […]

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