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10 Ways To Build Trust With Prospects
by Tony Vidler        Trust is not given automatically by consumers. You have to build trust with prospects in todays market over time. That’s a reality.  It is earned. The very best we can hope for when someone doesn’t really know us yet is to be trusted enough to be given a chance to prove ourselves. There […]
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creating brand advocates for ongoing referral business
Creating A Client Advocate Culture
by Tony Vidler        In an ideal world all of our clients would become active advocates for us…and each client advocate would be the key driver of new business and growth in our practice, wouldn’t it?  Our clients would be so in love with how our advice and expertise has positively changed their world that […]
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4 Ways to make your emails more effective marketing tools!
by Tony Vidler        Your emails should be effective marketing tools, because there is no doubt that the most frequently used method of business communication today is still email.  One could go so far as to say it is still the dominant digital marketing medium. If it is the dominant communication medium and already costing […]
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Good? Fast? or Cheap? What sort of advice is it going to be?
by Tony Vidler        A few years ago a university in New Zealand conducted a study to find out where consumers were turning to for financial advice. At the time they found that the number one source of financial advice for most respondents was “newspapers and media”. For 29% of the population that was their […]
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The Basics Of “Looking Good” – Professionally Speaking
by Tony Vidler        Looking good professionally is critical in today’s world.  It has always been important of course, but in the era of online search throwing up that awful photo from your party days…well… These days our image precedes us…people are forming impressions about us from the initial contact and their initial search results. […]
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Yin and yang of modern marketing
How To Blend Old AND New Marketing Methods: An Example
by Tony Vidler        Old, traditional, marketing methods….or new, modern, methods? Which is best? Neither are “best”…and both can be pretty effective.  Using the best of both simultaneously though can be fabulous. Traditional marketing methods mixed with modern technology, data-driven insights and delivery platforms can be extremely effective…in fact using everything is absolutely necessary to […]
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10 Steps to an EFFECTIVE Marketing Plan
by Tony Vidler         There are 10 big steps to developing an effective marketing plan.  “Effective” in this context means a marketing plan which will get you enough of the right sort of customers for the resources you have available.  Getting results with the limited time and money you have in other words. The 10 […]
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Imagine if we REALLY were 100% honest with clients
by Tony Vidler        We are expected to be 100% honest with clients, and total honesty with clients is a wonderful concept but 100% honesty in all things with our clients would kill the relationships and kill the industry. Don’t get me wrong: I believe in full transparency and ensuring consumers get all the information […]
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How EXCEPTIONAL advisers use their time is not like the average!
by Tony Vidler        Time management is where there is a huge difference between elite advisers and the average advisers. in fact, it is one of the biggest differentiators that help the best performers stand out and excel. However, the difference isn’t about micro-managing time slots, or about having better time management systems.  It is […]
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How The Greatest Advisers Become Great
by Tony Vidler        The greatest advisers tend to be doing similar things to the other great advisers usually, and very few of them seem to be doing something that nobody else could do either.  They just execute better. The financial advisers who consistently achieve sustained expltraordinary growth and performance are typically superb on at […]
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