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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 […]

The Case Study is an incredibly powerful (and under-utilised) Adviser marketing tool

by Tony Vidler The case study is without doubt one of the most effective marketing tools a professional can use today as clients demand more and more content which engages them and highlights expertise. It is one of the more powerful marketing tools for professionals services, and appears to be largely ignored by professionals. It […]

How to Position To Get The Right Referrals

by Tony Vidler Getting referrals is difficult enough for many, but to get the right referrals is even tougher. It’s always nice to get any referral of course, but it doesn’t help if we do get a referral and it is someone that we just can’t deliver great value to. So we do want to […]

If you want people buying your advice, then dumb it down!

by Tony Vidler When it comes to getting people buying your advice one of the best tips I can give is “dumb it down- but don’t treat them like dummies“. There is a big difference between “dumbing it down” and treating people as if they are dumb. The first is about simplifying the message in […]

Target Marketing: Is it an “Either/Or”?

by Tony Vidler Advisers talk about target marketing as if it is an “either/or” choice. One has to be focussed on the ideal client only and ignore everyone else, or alternatively, you have to be focussed on dealing with as many potential clients as possible and give up on the idea of the “ideal”. […]

These 4 things make it easy for prospects to say YES

by Tony Vidler We all want all of our prospects to say YES, but getting them to do so isn’t necessarily about having a clever line that they can’t say “no” to. Which do you think is more effective with todays educated, wary and sophisticated consumer? 1. The clever sales technique that has you […]

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