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Maybe this is an opportunity: Picking a good financial adviser is harder than ever for consumers

by Tony Vidler Choosing a good financial adviser has always been a bit of a leap of faith for consumers I guess, but picking one today is harder than ever. With the tendency to use search to screen possible contenders, and with most contenders having to use the same acronyms and titles and so on, […]

Have Financial Advisers Missed Out On The Social Media Opportunity?

by Tony Vidler After a decade of NOT adopting what is clearly the biggest evolution in consumer communication methods in half a century (at least!), there is a mood amongst many financial advisers that they have “missed the wave” on the social media marketing opportunities. One might as well say you’ve “missed the wave” […]

Why advertising doesn’t work sometimes

by Tony Vidler At some point most professionals consider using advertising as a means of lead generation, and usually it doesn’t work quite as well as they hoped. There are a few things to get right when it comes to creating advertising which generates the results you hoped for but the most obvious reason […]

How A Few Advisers Get Great Social Media ROI

by Tony Vidler Why do some advisers seem to do so well and get such great social media ROI while others find it fruitless? There are financial advisers literally building businesses on the back of social media – it is that powerful for them. Yet there are hordes of advisers who would suggest that social […]

Consumers WANT to talk to you!

by Tony Vidler The opportunity to grow your professional services firm by gaining new clients has probably never been better because consumers want to talk to you. On the back of the sudden realisation in 2020 that markets do not go up forever, and cash reserves really do help, and it is worthwhile transferring […]

The 4 Actions Needed To Create A Personal Service System That Pays Off

by Tony Vidler An ongoing challenge for any service business is to create “Mass Personalisation”, or something akin to a factory production line that delivers constant quality efficiently, but which still feels personal to the end user. In professional services it is creating and efficient and affordable business system that allow mass actions […]

Actually Using The Pareto Principle To Improve Service And Profit

by Tony Vidler Everyone has heard of Pareto’s Principle by now, but are you actually using it to improve profit…or improve service….or is it actually “improve service to improve profit using Pareto”? It is the latter. Undoubtedly. Improving service leads to greater retention, or longer duration of client engagement & revenue. Improving […]

The simple prospecting system from the worlds greatest ever salesman

by Tony Vidler According to the Guiness Book Of World Records the greatest salesman in the world was Joe Girard. Joe sold cars…an incredible 13,001 cars sold in his career. One at a time…working “retail” with high priced items. And selling the same things, at the same price, as a heck of a […]

What matters most on your website?

by Tony Vidler What matters on your website the most is the stuff that we think about the least, and that is the very basic of basic stuff. While we think about logo’s, layouts, CTA’s and how to generate enquiries we forget how consumers are using the websites, or rather, what they are using […]

Could you be a Thought Leader Adviser?

by Tony Vidler A big phrase of recent times for anyone in professional services is “Thought Leadership”. Everywhere you turn someone is writing or saying “be a thought leader”…and nearly every audience asks “what is a Thought Leader, and how do you get there?” To put it in its most simple terms, it […]

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