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The missing ingredient in professional development: SKILLS

by Tony Vidler We are awash with recommendations on how to “improve the advice business” and enhance professional developement. Regulators, politicians, consumer groups, product manufacturers…competing business models that look to bypass advice entirely….all of them are making a lot of noise about how advice delivery can be improved and where professionals involved in the […]

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5 basic tips for helping your next customers find you

by Tony Vidler In a perfect world customers find you, rather than you having to find them. The world is never entirely perfect of course, but certainly we can often do better in having customers find us…and the good news is that today’s customers are out there looking for the right provider. We […]

Full Transparency? It pays to keep some secrets from clients

by Tony Vidler In this age of full transparency for professional services there is a tendency for advisers to tell clients everything…but there are just some things you shouldn’t tell them in advance. If you want to give yourself a reasonable chance of creating clients who are a little surprised and delighted with […]

Why settle for average Adviser performance when you could be outstanding?

by Tony Vidler Advisers frequently settle for being average, and it is definitely not because they want to be average but because they don’t really know what it takes to elevate their performance exponentially. Average adviser performance can be turned into outstanding adviser performance by making the changes that make the difference. The […]

How to work out who to keep on your team

by Tony Vidler One of the toughest areas of practice management is building your team and keeping the team “right for you”. So it is best to begin with an unpalatable truth: It is inevitable that at some point you will get team selections wrong. You will get hiring decisions wrong….and sometimes firing decisions […]

You know it is time to review the marketing plan when…

by Tony Vidler Any time of the year is the “right” time to review your marketing plan, but there are definitely times – or signs – that it should be done even if you weren’t really planning to review it this particular time. The “right time” to review your marketing plan is when […]

Coaches Get Higher Fees Than Advisers. Do That Then.

by Tony Vidler As more financial advisers move into fee-based work the common question seems to revolve around what fee level is right for them and their clients. High fees are not great, but higher fees are needed to run the advisory firm. So obviously the first thing is working out what fee […]

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 […]

To fix repeated problems, you need a process!

by Tony Vidler For financial advisory firms the word “process” has become synonymous with “best practice advice”, but good process is so much more than just a compliant and well-documented series of advice documents. Process cures problems. Process is what builds franchise businesses. Process is what creates turnkey operations that are highly valued […]

For Converting Prospects Patience Pays Off!

by Tony Vidler Converting prospects is no longer about sales technique, it is about patiently engaging and educating and matching their timeframe. But being a lot more patient than ever before pays off with higher value clients who stay longer. But how patient do you have to be? Research consistently shows that […]

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