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Making the move from Product Rep to a valued Financial Adviser

by Tony Vidler Being a valued financial adviser is the goal, right? Well it is difficult to considered yourself “valued” if you don’t place a value upon your own expertise or worth to the client. It is even more difficult for prospective clients to consider you valuable if you do not place value upon […]

How to make your KPI’s actually work!

by Tony Vidler Looking ahead at the changes you can…no… the changes you WILL make in the next year you have probably begun to zero in on the Key Performance Indicators – the KPI’s. These are the measures that matter. They are the ratio’s or milestones that indicate your plan is progressing, and that the […]

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 […]

Practice Development: The Danger Of Promoting A Competent Adviser

by Tony Vidler A genuine danger in practice development is promoting a competent adviser to a role which they are unable to perform well in. In any organisation there is a real risk that a person is encouraged to rise to their level of incompetence. This is just as true for the self employed […]

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 […]

Why Your Advisory Practice Needs 2 Marketing Targets

by Tony Vidler When considering advisory practice marketing the primary focus from most advisers is “How much should I spend to get a new client onboard?” It is a single marketing focus; just one marketing target. You need one more. While the answer will vary for everyone of course as to how much one new […]

How Great Regular Producers Stay In Top Gear

by Tony Vidler Great regular producers are those who continually deliver good revenue results time after time. Week in, week out, they never miss a beat and just keep pumping the numbers through. They are elite. Elite high performing advisers, like elite athletes, have high performance routines. Their routines are the the answer to “how?” […]

The Right Way To Present Your Advice Recommendation Effectively

by Tony Vidler When it is time to present your advice recommendation, whether that is providing quotes or product solutions or providing a strategy, are you giving the prospect a few choices…like 3 perhaps? Don’t do it. Consumers are onto it, so as a “sales technique” it loses impact…and it was never fabulous technique […]

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 […]

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