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Your Reputation IS Your Personal Brand – and that matters most

June 11, 2024

For most advisers the only brand that truly matters is, or should be, their reputation. It IS their personal brand. The corporate brand, or licensees brand, or dealer group or favourite financial insititutions…they are secondary…

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Get Writing To Leverage Your Brand

March 22, 2024

Whether you realise it or not you have a brand, and ideally you want your brand to be attracting ideal clients. The problem with most prospecting and lead generation activities for most advisers and firms…

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You Can Become A Trusted Brand Before Clients Even Meet You

January 30, 2024

For any individual adviser to become “a trusted brand” in your target markets mind has to be their main marketing goal. The importance of great engagement with prospective customers cannot be over-emphasised here…it is THE…

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10 Ways To Build Trust With Prospects

May 1, 2023

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…

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How to Build Your Brand Influence

September 5, 2022

Every Adviser has a brand, whether they realise it or not. That brand influences prospects to engage you…or not. You may as well manage it to get more positive outcomes then, right? We recognise the…

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Balancing Adviser Needs and Clients Wants

March 21, 2022

The professional Financial Advisers’ needs matter as much as the Clients’ wants. Consumer groups & regulators will probably disagree of course, but the ideal practice is one which surely achieves this balance isn’t it? After…

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You are a professional? That doesn’t mean I trust you.

February 21, 2020

You’re a professional. Should I trust you? Nope. As a consumer, a user of professional services myself, I’m tired of hearing from professionals that they should be trusted just because they are labelled professionals. Let’s…

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The Professional’s Branding Challenge: how to look different while blending in (& why it matters)

January 12, 2018

When it comes to creating a personal brand as a professional, the irony is we have to look different – while blending in and looking the same. One cannot afford to look any less professional…

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