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Creating A Client Advocate Culture

by Tony Vidler In an ideal world all of our clients would become active advocates for us…and each client advocate would be the key driver of new business and growth in our practice, wouldn’t it? Our clients would be so in love with how our advice and expertise has positively changed their world that […]

The Basics Of “Looking Good” – Professionally Speaking

by Tony Vidler Looking good professionally is critical in today’s world. It has always been important of course, but in the era of online search throwing up that awful photo from your party days…well… These days our image precedes us…people are forming impressions about us from the initial contact and their initial search results. […]

How To Blend Old AND New Marketing Methods: An Example

by Tony Vidler Old, traditional, marketing methods….or new, modern, methods? Which is best? Neither are “best”…and both can be pretty effective. Using the best of both simultaneously though can be fabulous. Traditional marketing methods mixed with modern technology, data-driven insights and delivery platforms can be extremely effective…in fact using everything is absolutely necessary to […]

10 Steps to an EFFECTIVE Marketing Plan

by Tony Vidler There are 10 big steps to developing an effective marketing plan. “Effective” in this context means a marketing plan which will get you enough of the right sort of customers for the resources you have available. Getting results with the limited time and money you have in other words. The 10 […]

3 things your marketing message must do to get quick wins

by Tony Vidler “Long term marketing ideas are great, but what do I need to do to get some quick results?” A fair question…sometimes we need our marketing message to produce some pretty quick wins – which it can do if you get 3 things right. In this weeks Quick Tips video we discuss […]

How to get your prospects attention…and keep it.

by Tony Vidler Sad but true apparently: The average Goldfish has a greater attention span than the average human reader. That presents a bit of a challenge when it comes to us getting prospects’ attention and then holding it long enough to make our point and get them interested in engaging with us. If […]

Engage With Your New Connections To Get On With Business

by Tony Vidler So you have some new connections on LinkedIn…congratulations. What now? Or rather, what next? How does actual engagement begine? Making new connections via LinkedIn is great…but it is better if you can take those new connections and turn them into meaningful engagement and conversation. It is a business-to-business platform […]

Your Marketing Tactics? Well, it depends…

by Tony Vidler Which marketing tactics are worth considering for your professional promotion largely comes down at the start to being clear about your desired positioning. Are you wanting to be seen as a “General Practitioner” or are you trying to establish a position as a “Specialist” for a start? The tactics that […]

Are You “Marketing” The Right Message?

by Tony Vidler Do you know what business you are in? Are you clear on what you achieve for customers? Does your marketing message reinforce that? Are you marketing what it is you actually DO, rather than what you know or who you are…or worse: you are marketing some other businesses products […]

We should be using more video with email

by Tony Vidler If you aren’t using video with email to educate and engage clients and prospects yet, why not? It seems an odd thing with everyone having smart phones that can take high quality video’s on the spot, and with everyone also drafting and sending perhaps a 100 emails a day, but […]

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