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How To Get Paid For Each Piece Of Advice You Give

by Tony Vidler Here’s a simple strategy for getting paid fairly for the advice you give….and I mean getting paid for ALL the advice you give…every step of the way. There are broadly three possible parts to any client work: 1. Planning 2. Implementing, or “putting in place” any planning recommendations 3. Ongoing […]

A Value Proposition is simply about the value for THEM

by Tony Vidler Financial advisers generally struggle to create a value proposition that accurately expresses how they work differently, or what makes them special compared to others. It isn’t that they don’t have points of difference, or that they struggle to put ideas into words…generally they are very good at both. Each adviser has […]

Unbundling Planning To Get More Client Engagement

by Tony Vidler Unbundling planning creates higher numbers of prospects and clients engaging in full financial planning, and can lead to higher revenue per client as well. More clients engaging in more comprehensive advice and creating higher lifetime value per client. That has to be worth thinking about doesn’t it? When we try […]

Maybe You Should Stop Selling “Service”

by Tony Vidler Here’s a wild thought for financial services providers: maybe you should stop selling service. Sell your products by all means. Sell advice and the different outcomes it can create. Sell time…but maybe stop selling service. Professionals sell time and knowledge primarily, but with many financial advisers finding they are unable […]

Bring Back The Long Lunch…it will be good for your business!

by Tony Vidler Tom Peters suggested many years ago that one of the most effective marketing activities a professional could engage in were weekday lunches. 250 of them in fact over the course of the year. That is perhaps a bit excessive in today’s environment (and for ageing waistlines), but the concept […]

Robo-Advice is here, and it is helping Advisers be better at giving advice!

by Tony Vidler Apparently a fair proportion of advisers still do not believe that robo-advice will have a serious impact upon their business. It will of course, and in many respects it is helping advisers to be better at what they do…giving advice. The term “robo-advice” creates an image immediately of a machine replacing […]

How does culture create lasting success?

by Tony Vidler If you doubt that culture can create lasting success, then consider this: Imagine a sports team (or club if you prefer) that competed continuously for well over 100 years and during that time had a winning record against all comers of over 83%? The best that every nation on earth can […]

Your Constant Output Problem Is Usually Really An Input Problem

by Tony Vidler We like constant output…constant revenue coming in the door is the output we seek right? Too often financial advice businesses struggle to achieve constant output though…it gets a bit “peak and trough”. Well…when we have a repeated problem – like inconsistent results – we need a process. Why? […]

How to create engaging conversations

by Tony Vidler Creating engaging conversations with people you don’t know well, or who feel they don’t know you well enough, is difficult. It can be even more difficult when they are guarded…thinking maybe that you are just there to sell them something. You can engage even the most guarded and difficult prospects […]

The Advisory Practice Of The Future: Advisers Should Include Robo’s

by Tony Vidler Robo’s are a threat to advice businesses in much the same way that a chilly bin is a threat to the sale of refrigerators. Most of us own both and use both, right? The advisory practice of the future will also be embracing multiple ways of delivering what consumers want…sometimes a […]

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