Your marketing objective is simple: Help ideal clients choose you. The most important word in that sentence was “help“, and that is very different to “convince“, which is the typical marketing approach. A great marketing…
A cornerstone of great strategy is understanding where to compete in the market…or rather, which area of expertise or service offering to lead with in the marketing efforts. Once the target market clients have been…
When it comes to valuing your advice to clients what is a “fair” rate or price? $100 per hour seems pretty cheap for any professional – plumbers cost more than that, right? But what about…
If you are struggling to express the value of your advice for your target market there is a way to figure it out that doesn’t require you agonising over how to come up with a…
There is something that financial advisers are proving to be not good at doing: That is “Being There”. In this country Statistics NZ compile data from the census every few years and there is a…
It may seem an obvious question; but what is value in the eyes of your prospective clients? Value can be determined by any individual in any number of ways of course, and what is valuable…
Business would be easier if people recognised their problems and knew you were the one with the answers, and they just came straight to you to get them solved, right? To achieve that you should…
Make yourself scarce. It is a well established economic AND behavioural principle is that people generally will have higher demand for that which is more difficult to get. Less of something makes it more valuable,…