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The Biggest Mistake In Financial Adviser Digital Marketing

by Tony Vidler I found this cartoon ages ago and I love it because it so accurately describes what I think is the biggest mistake in financial adviser digital marketing and I just keep seeing it happen over and over. Enormous effort and resource is put into creating wonderful websites, facebook pages and blogs…..then……nothing! […]

If you still need more clients then you probably need different skills

by Tony Vidler Financial advisers who need more clients need to be better marketers than salespeople in todays environment. For most that means they probably need new, or more, skills. Not more technical skills; more commercial skills. While financial advisers have been figuring out how to get ever-more-compliant and deliver yet-more-paper over the […]

Tailoring Your Content Marketing To Fit Your Audience

by Tony Vidler One size does not fit all when it comes to content marketing: you need to tailor your content fit your audiences’ desires and needs. It needs to be made to measure as it were. As more professionals tap into the power of content marketing and create a presence on multiple […]

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 […]

What is the ROI of having “An Audience”?

by Tony Vidler While I am a fan of “measuring to manage well”, some things just can’t be measured accurately. Like having an audience. How do you even measure the ROI of an audience? That’s why I believe we should forget what the ROI of social media is, in the conventional sense. Here’s […]

2 Things To Do For Social Media Lead Generation

by Tony Vidler When it comes to social media lead generation it would appear that the majority of professionals still have reservations about the effectiveness of it as a marketing strategy. Yet, everyone they know uses social to connect, research, engage and decide on future actions. Somehow most think that all of these […]

Build An Audience Through Twitter

by Tony Vidler Instead of “prospecting” shift the thinking to how to build an audience if you want a pool of potential future clients who might engage you. That is one of the main factors in creating ongoing demand for advisory services in todays world. Consumers are choosing when and how to engage, […]

Take a look at Twitter if you want new ideas

by Tony Vidler If you want new ideas for how to develope your business or inspiration for your own content marketing then you really should look at Twitter. It is a platform that many advisers have simply ignored as far as I can see, but it is well worth taking a look at. […]

Cold calling just ain’t social enough

by Tony Vidler “Advisers are finding success using social sites to cull prospects, build their brand, communicate with clients and improve their referral network” Apparently some 85% of advisers in the US are now actively using social media, and while I am mildly surprised by this result as it is higher than I […]

There are prospects for you on Twitter

by Tony Vidler Twitter is crowded and noisy and it can be difficult to get found by your prospects…but there ARE a few things you can do that will help them find you. There are prospects for you on Twitter… Because Twitter is full of prospects who are engaged. That is one of […]

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