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The 6 Steps Of Succession Planning

by Tony Vidler Unless you plan to work to the grave all practice owners need to be thinking “succession planning” at some point – preferably as early as possible. Maybe right even from the beginning of your practice. Succession planning is simply about working out how to exit the business at your preferred […]

Are you just swimming in circles, or do you have a strategy?

by Tony Vidler To ensure business success you must have a strategy. But where do you begin with designing a business strategy? It isn’t quite as hard as you may think…. First, you need to decide what you want to be known for, which then makes it relatively easy to work out […]

A Value Creation Model For Advisory Firms

by Tony Vidler Challenging times test whether we are truly delivering value, and whether we have a good value creation model for the advisory firm. Is the practice focussed upon the areas where it can improve in its value delivery to clients…does it even know which areas they are? Where do we need to […]

What do Life Insurance customers want?

by Tony Vidler One of the questions that continually vexes professionals is “what do customers want?“ In the life insurance area of financial services the answer is even tougher to find than usual, because insurance for virtually all consumers is an absolute grudge purchase. When we think about it logically every person who buys […]

Some Advisory Firm’s Are “Going Out Of Business” Without Even Realising It

by Tony Vidler I have a strong sense that a lot of advisory firms are “going out of business” at the moment and don’t even realise it. For a very long time markets were going well, and commission and fee rates were at the high end of the scale, and there were plenty […]

When it is time for a business name makeover?

by Tony Vidler Where do you start when it is time to get a makeover for your business? Change the business name? How do you even know when to think about it seriously? The “when” is driven by whether your business is growing at the rate you expect, and attracting new clients. If it […]

To Improve Productivity, Plan More Time Off…

by Tony Vidler Here’s a tip you’ll love for improving personal productivity: take more time off if you want to do more business! Clearly you cannot take that advice to an extreme and take the entire year off….there will definitely be a point where “time off” results in diminishing returns….BUT… To really […]

5 Points That Align Interests For The Adviser AND The Firm

by Tony Vidler A key to success for an advisory firm hiring other advisers is making sure that you align the interests of both parties. That is, getting the behaviour you want as an employer while ensuring that the new adviser is most likely to be getting the outcomes they want too. There […]

A Good Financial Planner MUST Consider Risk Management

by Tony Vidler Financial planners who do not tackle risk management issues thoroughly for clients do the clients a disservice. A good financial planner must be factoring personal risk management into their planning for clients. Perhaps that is a little challenging to some, however too many financial planners simply do not include risk […]

What you should expect from good coaching

by Tony Vidler It is a peculiar thing…most of us recognize the difference that getting good coaching – or poor coaching – can make to any athlete or sports teams performance. In fact most of us have often held quite passionate views about the merits of coaches…Very few professionals however seem to make the […]

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