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Your Reputation IS Your Personal Brand – and it is what matters most

by Tony Vidler For most advisers the only brand that truly matters is, or should be, their personal brand. Not the corporate brand, or licensees brand, or dealer group or avourite financial insititutions…YOUR brand. And when it comes to your personal brand, reputation is everything really. A lot of professionals get their branding […]

Making LinkedIn Matter In Your Marketing

by Tony Vidler Most professionals have a LinkedIn profile now, but are they making LinkedIn matter when it comes to their marketing? Often they are not effectively utilising the 2 key areas that are searched by Google, being the title section and the summary. That is incredibly valuable online real estate….provided for free…so let’s have […]

Referrals: You are probably letting hundreds go each year

by Tony Vidler Why so many professionals struggle to get referral business consistently generally comes down to 2 things: 1. They don’t position for them 2. They aren’t prepared in advance Something like one-third to a half of the people we engage with might be prepared to provide referrals – IF we […]

How One Successful Financial Planner Gets New Business (part 2)

by Tony Vidler Professionals are always interested in what other professionals are doing that leads to new business and becoming more successful. The constant question is: “What are others doing that are successful for them?” In a previous post one leading financial planner shared where he gets his new business from, and the […]

The Madness of Creating Videos Without a Master Plan

by Tony Vidler A little while ago I participated in a survey on marketing by financial advisers internationally. The results were intriguing in that clearly there is widespread recognition by advisers of the importance and effectiveness of creating videos as a communication and marketing medium, however there is a disconnect too as the majority […]

Target Marketing? Follow the seam of gold if you find it, but don’t spend money looking for it

by Tony Vidler Whenever I hear advisers talk about target marketing they seem to think 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 with as many potential clients as possible and give up on […]

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

by Tony Vidler It’s a distant memory I’m sure, but one of the things that everyone loves about the Christmas holiday season is it becomes noticeable that many folk relax just a little bit more….give others a bit more time and leeway…become just a little more charitable….and of course there are the client gifts. […]

3 Reasons Why Professionals Should Be Using Twitter

by Tony Vidler It seems to be one of the least understood social media channels in the professional services world, and barely (or poorly?) used by many. For any professional looking to build an audience and a personal brand centred on being an authority, or expert, in a particular area it is a […]

Sell holes, not drills, to get more customers

by Tony Vidler 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 behaviour They buy products for what the products can do for them, not because […]

How to Find Your Facebook Mojo

by Tony Vidler Facebook…love it or loathe it….it matters in creating an online brand. In the serious world of professional services with all its technical jargon, graphs, charts, acronyms and incredibly dull stuff as far as the average consumer is concerned, Facebook presents an opportunity to showcase individuals as unique personalities. Therein […]

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