service marketing strategy

The Gordian Knot of Getting Referrals

February 4, 2025

Getting referrals consistently is hard for most…but oddly enough it is also easy for many. Or is it? Lots of advisers say they get all their new business from referral, but when you dig into…

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Why Your Advisory Practice Needs 2 Marketing Targets

January 24, 2025

When considering advisory practice marketing the primary focus from most advisers is “How much should I spend to get a new client onboard?” It is a single marketing focus; just one marketing target. You need…

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This Is Why Most Centre-Of-Influence Referral Marketing Efforts Fail

January 14, 2025

When it comes to referral marketing efforts there are basically two types of consistent ongoing referrers you can cultivate: 1. happy & satisfied clients 2. centres-of-influence The second category is the one that many advisers…

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Sell holes, not drills, to get more customers

January 10, 2025

When people go to the hardware store and buy a fantastic electric drill they are not usually terribly interested in the drill itself. They want a hole. This is an elementary truth about consumers buying…

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Demonstrating Value To Make Prospects Choose You

January 7, 2025

Successful advisers today make sure they are demonstrating value to prospects...before the prospects have agreed to engage and become clients. Having a prospect who is interested enough to hear what you have to offer has…

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You Need A “Tight 5” For Ongoing New Business Success

November 12, 2024

You want new business and new clients, right? When it comes to building an audience of influencers, advocates, raving fans and interested spectators who will all send business your way, it all begins with having…

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Target Marketing: Is it an “Either/Or”?

October 15, 2024

Advisers talk about target marketing as if it is an “either/or” choice. One has to be focussed on the ideal client only and ignore everyone else, or alternatively, you have to be focussed on dealing…

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How often is too often to send emails?

October 4, 2024

“How often should I send emails?” is the perpetual question asked by advisers who are beginning to build an engagement marketing system or lifting their client communications and services standards. There is not a magic…

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