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You are already using Digital Marketing daily, so why not use it well?

by Tony Vidler From what I observe, around 50% of professionals today still say they do not use digital marketing – and a fair proportion of those who say they don’t also say they don’t ever intend to use it either. However, from what I actually observe when it comes to how many professionals do […]

Here is the closest thing you’ll get to a marketing “free lunch”

by Tony Vidler Who doesn’t love free marketing? This would have to be of the more valuable free marketing things you’ll ever find if you want to grow your business: Google Keyword Planner. It is the closest thing there is to a “free lunch”. In fact it is probable the closest thing you’ll find […]

How do you prepare clients to recommend you?

by Tony Vidler Having clients recommend you remains the best marketing tactic there is, bar none. Despite plenty of research is telling us that our future clients are making buying decisions differently today, than say 5 years ago and despite the impact of online content and search many consumers still ask their friends and […]

How to use LinkedIn Groups to build your audience

by Tony Vidler LinkedIn Groups would have to be one of the easiest ways today for any professional to go about building an audience…or a community of like-minded folk. And that is what we want our marketing to achieve if we want our business to grow, isn’t it? It seems that what stops many […]

The Top 10 Tips for Advisers to get some LinkedIn value

by Tony Vidler Advisers use of LinkedIn generally leaves a lot to be desired and too many treat it as a static display of their CV. It is a networking platform upon which too few actually do any networking. To get good value from it follow the basics of networking that you already know…engage in […]

Prospecting has never been easier…for some!

by Tony Vidler Prospecting seems to remain the biggest day to day business problem for financial advisers, yet prospecting has never actually been easier. If you polled 100 advisers with this simple question I would wager that more than half would answer: “getting enough new business prospects to meet my business objectives”. Prospecting […]

Have Financial Advisers Missed Out On The Social Media Opportunity?

by Tony Vidler After a decade of NOT adopting what is clearly the biggest evolution in consumer communication methods in half a century (at least!), there is a mood amongst many financial advisers that they have “missed the wave” on the social media marketing opportunities. One might as well say you’ve “missed the wave” […]

How A Few Advisers Get Great Social Media ROI

by Tony Vidler Why do some advisers seem to do so well and get such great social media ROI while others find it fruitless? There are financial advisers literally building businesses on the back of social media – it is that powerful for them. Yet there are hordes of advisers who would suggest that social […]

Advisers should use Facebook – and think like clients when doing it

by Tony Vidler Most Advisers using digital marketing today have Facebook as part of their marketing strategy, and I see most using it wrong in my view. Facebook can be an immensely powerful element of your content marketing, or engagement marketing, if it is used well. The key to using it effectively is […]

The Continuous Cycle That Is Social Media Marketing

by Tony Vidler Marketing via social media is a bit like riding a bike: you have to keep pedalling that cycle or the lack of momentum will make it fall over. Many professionals beginning with social media as part of their marketing mix fail to recognise that continual movement is a critical part of making […]

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