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When it is time for a business name makeover?

by Tony Vidler Where do you start when it is time to get a makeover for your business? Change the business name? How do you even know when to think about it seriously? The “when” is driven by whether your business is growing at the rate you expect, and attracting new clients. If it […]

How to create more compelling offers

by Tony Vidler What financial advisers do is valuable, but it is often not compelling. To creating more compelling offers we need to bring the long term into short term focus, and the secret to that is defining short term gain. Because retirement is so far away…there’s plenty of time to do stuff, right? […]

To Improve Productivity, Plan More Time Off…

by Tony Vidler Here’s a tip you’ll love for improving personal productivity: take more time off if you want to do more business! Clearly you cannot take that advice to an extreme and take the entire year off….there will definitely be a point where “time off” results in diminishing returns….BUT… To really […]

5 Points That Align Interests For The Adviser AND The Firm

by Tony Vidler A key to success for an advisory firm hiring other advisers is making sure that you align the interests of both parties. That is, getting the behaviour you want as an employer while ensuring that the new adviser is most likely to be getting the outcomes they want too. There […]

Know, Like or Trust? Where do you start?

by Tony Vidler By now pretty much everyone has got the mantra that people do business with people that they know, like and trust, but which comes first? Where do you start? the Know, Like or Trust? Simple questions perhaps, however when you are first meeting prospective clients and know full well that […]

A Good Financial Planner MUST Consider Risk Management

by Tony Vidler Financial planners who do not tackle risk management issues thoroughly for clients do the clients a disservice. A good financial planner must be factoring personal risk management into their planning for clients. Perhaps that is a little challenging to some, however too many financial planners simply do not include risk […]

How To Crack The Content Creation Conundrum

by Tony Vidler Content Creation appears to be the Number 1 barrier for professionals wanting to use digital marketing tactics. Inevitably I seem to hear “……Yeah, I think social media would be useful….but I have nothing to write about and nothing to say….“ Creating content is an issue. Just as big an […]

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How to challenge clients thinking without being confrontational

by Tony Vidler Perhaps the toughest task any adviser faces is to challenge clients’ own thinking, but without getting into a confrontation that threatens the entire relationship. Most of us find ourselves occasionally dealing with a client who already thinks they know the answers – they haven’t come to us for advice, they have […]

What you should expect from good coaching

by Tony Vidler It is a peculiar thing…most of us recognize the difference that getting good coaching – or poor coaching – can make to any athlete or sports teams performance. In fact most of us have often held quite passionate views about the merits of coaches…Very few professionals however seem to make the […]

The missing ingredient in professional development: SKILLS

by Tony Vidler We are awash with recommendations on how to “improve the advice business” and enhance professional developement. Regulators, politicians, consumer groups, product manufacturers…competing business models that look to bypass advice entirely….all of them are making a lot of noise about how advice delivery can be improved and where professionals involved in the […]

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