sales tools Archives - Tony Vidler

Business Success Formula For Financial Advisers

by Tony Vidler Your business success as a financial adviser can be reduced to a fairly simple formula. There are 3 things that will determine your financial performance, and there are 6 variables that influence those three things. In this quick video you can find out what they are, how they […]

Using LinkedIn To Get Business: When Is It Time To Go To The Premium Version?

by Tony Vidler LinkedIn is basically a business-to-business networking tool, but the challenge is knowing when you should be using Linkedin to get business. The free version is fine for establishing a profile, but the question then becomes “How do you know when it is time – or worth your while – to upgrade from […]

Make your client testimonials REALLY stand out!

by Tony Vidler Yeah, yeah, yeah….Client testimonials are good. We should all collect them. We should all display them on our website and stuff…. …but then line after line of typed text just looks the same as everyone else’s, and they lose impact don’t they? Especially when potential clients know that we aren’t […]

Do You Practice Enough To Be Elite?

by Tony Vidler Elite financial advisers do things that average advisers won’t do. They practice stuff before going to market with it for instance. The best in any field practice before trying to win out on the field. In the advisory business that means practicing presentations of course…but it also means embracing roleplay to […]

How to make yourself scarce…and more valuable!

by Tony Vidler A well established economic AND behavioural principle is that people generally will have higher demand for that which is relatively scarce. Less of something makes it more valuable, right? It is a pretty sound principle that consumers tend to have a higher want for what is perceived to be harder to get […]

customer service pays for financial advisors

Professional Service: There’s extra money going the extra mile

by Tony Vidler Often professionals forget how valuable the service bit is in a “professional service” business. Everyone has heard some story about how a business did well from going the extra mile for a customer…but rarely do you hear about a professional services business that has a standing process for going the extra […]

The Power of Visual Aids

by Tony Vidler As advisers, we talk a lot. And when we aren’t talking we are writing. Visual aids, or graphics, tend to get overlooked by us but there is LOADS of research which suggests we should be using loads of visual aids, and perhaps less talk and less writing. If you doubt the […]

The 5 Essential Soft Skills For Professional Advisers

by Tony Vidler Technical knowledge will only take you so far, and sometimes (like when the world is in lockdown and there are no rational markets) they won’t tyake you anywhere at all. There are times when what you know just doesn’t matter. Knowing how to deal with people is all that matters sometimes. They […]

The Right Way To Present An Advice Recommendation

by Tony Vidler When you are presenting quotes or recommending product solutions, are you still giving the prospect a few choices, like 3 perhaps? Don’t do it. Consumers are onto it, so as a “sales technique” it loses impact…and it was never fabulous technique to begin with. More importantly, it undermines your professional […]

Compliant Advice: Paper Beats Scissors Every Time

by Tony Vidler When it comes to compliant advice Advisers really need to grasp that they are playing a game of “Rock, Paper, Scissors” with every client engagement now. There almost certainly will be an instance where a client throws the Rock…. We try to beat it with Paper. Complaints authority or regulator takes to […]

sales tools

SEARCH BY SUBJECT AREA

Get financial adviser coach blog updates via email.

Other useful resources

Fresh ideas delivered to your inbox