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Big Wins Come From Being Decisive

by Tony Vidler Paralysis from analysis is generally an achilles heel of professional services it seems, and amidst all the change and carnage of financial advice simply being decisive can be a winning difference for practice owners. Indecision is prevalent at the moment, with the opaque nature of ongoing regulatory reform in many […]

Bring Back The Long Lunch…it will be good for your business!

by Tony Vidler Tom Peters suggested many years ago that one of the most effective marketing activities a professional could engage in were weekday lunches. 250 of them in fact over the course of the year. That is perhaps a bit excessive in today’s environment (and for ageing waistlines), but the concept […]

“Uber”-ise to transform a good practice into a GREAT business

by Tony Vidler The million-dollar-question for financial advisers (literally!) is: “How do I go about leveraging a good professional practice into a great business that is worth heaps?” Answer: Uber-ise it. The inherent assumption in this question is that one already has a good professional practice, so let’s take that as […]

How does culture create lasting success?

by Tony Vidler If you doubt that culture can create lasting success, then consider this: Imagine a sports team (or club if you prefer) that competed continuously for well over 100 years and during that time had a winning record against all comers of over 83%? The best that every nation on earth can […]

Your Constant Output Problem Is Usually Really An Input Problem

by Tony Vidler We like constant output…constant revenue coming in the door is the output we seek right? Too often financial advice businesses struggle to achieve constant output though…it gets a bit “peak and trough”. Well…when we have a repeated problem – like inconsistent results – we need a process. Why? […]

Building A Profitable AND Valuable Practice

by Tony Vidler Building a profitable practice is is the first objective for practitioners, but building a sustainable profitable and valuable practice is even better isn’t it? Many good practitioners achieve the objective of building a profitable practice easily enough. After all, that is little more than keeping the sales and revenue pumping […]

5 easy ideas to get a BIG Practice performance difference

by Tony Vidler Into a new financial year and many advisers are wondering how to make a big practice performance difference without incurring significant extra costs or making dramatic changes after such a tumultuous last year or so. The good news is that it is amazing how some really simple and relatively small things […]

What Value Is A Practice?

by Tony Vidler Given some of the trends in financial services there must be serious questions about how to accurately value a practice of a financial adviser. The short answer to what is an accurate value of any practice will of course always be “whatever a buyer is willing to pay, and which you […]

How to create the Advisory Firm culture that you WANT

by Tony Vidler New regulatory expectations for financial advisers include defining and articulating their culture. How does the advisory firm’ culture get defined requires some deep thinking, but then so too does the matter of ensuring that the culture you defined is actually reflected in your firms’ actions. How do you create the culture […]

If you’re converting only 1 in 10 prospects you have a problem

by Tony Vidler There was a time when converting 10% of your prospects was the path to career success as a financial adviser. Hard to believe perhaps, but true. Everyone starting in a sales role was told to just “see the people, see the people, see the people!”? The expectation was that our fame and fortune […]

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