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Practice Growth Requires Leadership More Than Management

by Tony Vidler The most frequent thing I see that prevents great practice growth and holds advisers back from developing their dream business is a lack of vision. I don’t mean “vision” in the namby-pamby buzz-word sense of having a beautiful set of words on a plaque on a wall that nobody really cares about. […]

How do you know when you have a “great practice”?

by Tony Vidler “Great” is so subjective isn’t it? Having a “great practice” is a subjective assessment too…what is great to one adviser might be considered ordinary to another. But the true measure for each (I think) is: “When it is delivering the income and lifestyle that you imagined.” However, that outcome is potentially […]

10 Reasons why an Advisory Practice just stays “practicing”

by Tony Vidler Why is an Advisory Practice called a “Practice”? I think it is because more often than not the business is mostly practicing to be a business. When a “practice” has actually made it then everyone calls it “a firm”. THE common denominator in a Practice appears to be that the Principle, […]

10 Mistakes That Advice Businesses Keep Making

by Tony Vidler So many advisory firms do not realise their potential, and the top mistakes which hold them back are more often than not nothing to with their ability to be great advisers. They tend to fall into the category of being basic commercial mistakes. So the main mistakes that advice businesses keep […]

High Growth Advisory Firms Do Marketing Differently

by Tony Vidler High growth advisory firms do many things differently, but in marketing they tend to do something VERY different to the norm. We can’t ignore that it takes many differences to achieve outstanding results, not least of which is a difference in attitude and focus. Simply maintaining a relentless focus on being […]

Are You AND Your People Clear About What YOU Want?

by Tony Vidler Pretty much everyone running a business hates having to come up with job descriptions for their staff. Your people hate them too usually. A statement which may have been correct at a moment in time to describe a role, and the role is subject to constant change…they are pretty much a […]

Does “Growing” Really Mean “More Clients”?

by Tony Vidler Just about every adviser says they want to be growing their business and need more clients….and they also want fresh ideas; the business satisfaction of solving new problems for new people; they want to do something NEW. So they say they want more clients plus more interesting work plus more […]

Which Clients To Keep; Which Ones To Fire

by Tony Vidler More clients is good, right? But when you have plenty of clients on the books the question becomes which clients to keep. Or which ones to get rid of. Actually, advisers should be constantly asking these questions regardless of how big their book of clients actually is. They are not questions […]

Selling Change Inside Your Own Practice

by Tony Vidler External challenges and changes mean we are often selling change – or the need for yet more change – inside our own practices to our own people. And that becomes yet another challenge, as change is frequently resisted. What practice owners often don’t understand though is what it is that is actually […]

Generalist or Specialist, You Can Still Achieve Exceptional Growth

by Tony Vidler Some advisers opt to head down either the generalist or specialist path simply becuase that is what gives them professional satisfaction – and it is not about achieving particular commercial objectives. They work the way they do because they enjoy it. Not everyone wants to have a business which achieves exceptional growth […]

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