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How often is too often to send emails?

by Tony Vidler “How often should I send emails?” is the perpetual question asked by advisers who are beginning to build an engagement marketing system or lifting their client communications and services standards. There is not a magic number that applies to everyone I am sorry to say. The objective is to find that […]

Get Better Focus On YOUR Marketing Message

by Tony Vidler Getting attention in an era of message bombardment is tough, but there are techniques that can help you get better focus on YOUR marketing message. There is no doubt that professionals have to work that much harder to make valuable content stand out and get noticed. It is a challenge when we […]

If you still need more clients then you probably need different skills

by Tony Vidler Financial advisers who need more clients need to be better marketers than salespeople in todays environment. For most that means they probably need new, or more, skills. Not more technical skills; more commercial skills. While financial advisers have been figuring out how to get ever-more-compliant and deliver yet-more-paper over the […]

The most preferred, and most effective, client communication tool?

by Tony Vidler Engaging with clients and prospects is critical to getting the right business from the right people, and there is a surefire client communication winner (still): The humble electronic newsletter. Let’s begin by thinking about what you are trying to achieve with any client engagement method and you will probably come up […]

How Often Should We Contact Clients?

by Tony Vidler “How much is too much contact?” “How often is too often?” What is the right volume to contact clients? Much of the standard industry thinking around these questions is in fact quite dated I believe. For example, go back not that many years and good marketers providing a lot of […]

Keep ideal prospects until they’re ready for just $2.50 per year…

by Tony Vidler Good prospects take time to convert to clients, so one of the tricks of great businesses is to keep ideal prospects engaged until they are ready to become clients of their own accord. An incredibly powerful tool for finding and then converting ideal prospects still remains the humble newsletter. You […]

What is “Good” Content To Use In Your Marketing?

by Tony Vidler With prospects taking longer than ever to convert into clients, “good” content has become king as that is what keeps them engaged as they move along their buying journey. Notice I said “good” content…..not just any old content. But what is “good”? Content which is good is the content which […]

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Sharing your content: how much leg should you show?

by Tony Vidler When it comes to content sharing, how much is too much? Or not enough? To use the old and incredibly politically incorrect line: “how much leg should a lady show?” General disclaimer to begin with: I m not inviting allegations of sexism and general trashing of whatever reputation I have […]

The Importance of Frequent Client Contact

by Tony Vidler Advisers underestimate the importance of frequent client contact and “Frequent contact” is in itself a phrase that is interpreted differently amongst advisers. So how often is “frequent”? How often is often enough? For a long while the mantra was “be in touch every 90 days”, but that was in a […]

An advisers engagement process might look something like this…

by Tony Vidler It is a rarity for a new customer to walk in off the street and just decide to buy some insurance or an investment product or a bit of planning from you, right? That probably hasn’t happened for 10 years (if ever!). So how do they decide to buy […]

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