service marketing strategy

Giving is good for business, so why not do it all year?

December 5, 2025

One of the things that is great about the Christmas holiday season is it becomes noticeable that many folk relax just a little bit more….they give others a bit more time and leeway…they become just…

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Marketing NEVER Stops For Today’s Adviser

November 21, 2025

I was asked “when should I slow down or stop the marketing?” Answer: “Your marketing never stops. Never.” The rationale behind the question was the adviser has a good and large business – there are…

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financial advice value

An easy way to work out how to express the value of YOUR advice

August 26, 2025

If you are struggling to express the value of your advice for your target market there is a way to figure it out that doesn’t require you agonising over how to come up with a…

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The 10 Things To Get Right For COI’s To Start (and Keep) Referring

August 8, 2025

A great Centre-of-Influence keeps referring…they are not really COI’s unless they keep referring. That relatively reliable constant stream of introduction to target market prospects can build an advisory business better than any other form of…

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What Financial Advisers Could Be Better At…”Being There”

August 5, 2025

There is something that financial advisers are proving to be not good at doing: That is “Being There”. In this country Statistics NZ compile data from the census every few years and there is a…

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Using The Pareto Principle To Actually Improve Service And Profit

July 8, 2025

Everyone has heard of the Pareto Principle by now, but are you actually using it to improve profit…or improve service….or should we saying it actually “improves service which improves profit”? It is the latter. Undoubtedly.…

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The trick to maintaining consistent production

July 1, 2025

Maintaining consistent production of new revenue isn’t quite a formula – it’s a process thankfully. The process for continual positive performance is actually relatively straightforward and anybody can understand it and anybody can use it…

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Consumers won’t pay Financial Planners until they know what we can do for them…

May 30, 2025

“Only 2% of consumers would go to a financial planner to take out life or other personal insurance” “Only 9% of consumers would go to a financial planner for retirement planning” “12% of consumers would…

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