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The Easiest FREE Way To Get Found By Prospects

by Tony Vidler If you want to get found – and chosen – by prospects you really need to nail that LinkedIn profile! It is the easiest – and cheapest – way to get a good online presence if a prospect does decide to check you out (and most do I’d guess). Surprisingly […]

Tailoring Your Content Marketing To Fit Your Audience

by Tony Vidler One size does not fit all when it comes to content marketing: you need to tailor your content fit your audiences’ desires and needs. It needs to be made to measure as it were. As more professionals tap into the power of content marketing and create a presence on multiple […]

Cold calling just ain’t social enough

by Tony Vidler “Advisers are finding success using social sites to cull prospects, build their brand, communicate with clients and improve their referral network” Apparently some 85% of advisers in the US are now actively using social media, and while I am mildly surprised by this result as it is higher than I […]

To Friend or Not-Friend With Clients on Social Media?

by Tony Vidler Connecting with clients on social media can lead to closer relationships and even genuine friendships , which equals greater lifetime value of the client, right? But then….it can kill professional client relationships too. So what is the right thing to do when it comes to befriending clients on social channels; […]

How to use your most valuable online real estate well!

by Tony Vidler The most valuable piece of online “real estate” any professional has today is their LinkedIn Summary section. It is searchable content, and there is LOADS of room to tell your story or compelling points of difference, or highlight your expertise….yet so many professionals barely use 50% of the space allowance, and even […]

Use the title prospects would search for, not what the industry calls you.

by Tony Vidler A simple tip to strengthen your ability to get found by your ideal prospects when they are searching online: use the title that THEY would use for someone like you, not the title we might use with our industry peers. It sounds a simple thing, but it is an area that […]

How to use LinkedIn Groups to build your audience

by Tony Vidler LinkedIn Groups would have to be one of the easiest ways today for any professional to go about building an audience…or a community of like-minded folk. And that is what we want our marketing to achieve if we want our business to grow, isn’t it? It seems that what stops many […]

The Top 10 Tips for Advisers to get some LinkedIn value

by Tony Vidler Advisers use of LinkedIn generally leaves a lot to be desired and too many treat it as a static display of their CV. It is a networking platform upon which too few actually do any networking. To get good value from it follow the basics of networking that you already know…engage in […]

How to share MultiMedia Content on LinkedIn

by Tony Vidler Sharing great content on LinkedIn certainly helps in building a professional profile and to showcase your areas of expertise, and it is a very simple thing to do. Most LinkedIn users who have done more than set up their basic profile have figured out how to share someone elses update […]

20 Lessons in the evolution of a LinkedIn user

by Tony Vidler Back in the beginning of my personal social media evolution, about 3 years ago, a friend sent me a LinkedIn connection request…and I had no idea what LinkedIn was, or why I should bother using it. So being a brilliant technology user, I rang him to find out why he had sent […]

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