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Get other businesses to get you new business

by Tony Vidler In the perpetual search for new ways to get new clients many professional service firms overlook a really obvious, and incredibly lucrative, way of getting new business. That is getting other businesses to send their new clients to you. Unlike Center-Of-Influence (COI) marketing where an individual directs individual potential new client […]

Lead with the business you DON’T want to get the business you DO want

by Tony Vidler We all want to get more business, but we really want to just get the right sort of business for ourselves or our firm naturally. If you have figured out what sort of business it is you do want to get then you have (by default) figured out the areas of […]

How much TIME do super-successful advisers spend on marketing?

by Tony Vidler How much an adviser should spend on marketing is a perennial question with an expectation that there is a definitive $ or % answer. There isn’t. So the better question is how much time should an adviser spend on marketing. We know that time is money. We know that […]

Creating Equitable Referral Alliances

by Tony Vidler For referral alliances to be sustainable both parties must feel that the alliance is equitable. If one party keeps getting more out of it than the other, is that alliance likely to last long term? One party at some point is going to feel that the relationship is rather one-sided […]

How to work with multiple COI’s in the same sector

by Tony Vidler Is it possible to work successfully with multiple COI’s (centre’s of influence) from the same sector? Many professionals would say “no”…or they do to me anyway. The feeling is that if the COI’s are competitors then one has to choose just one to work with. That is partially true – […]

Looking beyond the obvious for strategic alliance partners

by Tony Vidler Great alliances with other businesses will enhance your brand and put you in front of more ideal prospects that you don’t have to find yourself. That is really the key benefit of having strategic alliance partners. There is a tendency however for most advisers to go after the same sort […]

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 […]

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 […]

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