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Could you be a Thought Leader Adviser?
by Tony Vidler         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 be positioning as a thought leader. THE subject matter experts expert. To put it in its […]
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How to make yourself scarce…and more valuable!
by Tony Vidler        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, right?  It is a pretty sound principle that consumers tend to have a higher want for whatever […]
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Sell holes, not drills, to get more customers
by Tony Vidler         When people go to the hardware store and buy a fantastic electric drill they are not usually terribly interested in the drill itself. They want a hole. This is an elementary truth about consumers buying behaviour  They buy products for what the products can do for them, not because they just […]
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Demonstrating Value To Make Prospects Choose You
by Tony Vidler        Successful advisers today make sure they are demonstrating value to prospects...before the prospects have agreed to engage and become clients. Having a prospect who is interested enough to hear what you have to offer has always been a necessary step on the path to getting a client, and it obviously remains […]
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If you want people buying your advice, then dumb it down!
by Tony Vidler        When it comes to getting people buying your advice one of the best tips I can give is “dumb it down- but don’t treat them like dummies“. There is a big difference between “dumbing it down” and treating people as if they are dumb.  The first is about simplifying the message in […]
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How do you create an “Act Now” mindset with clients?
by Tony Vidler        One of the ongoing challenge in marketing professional services is simply getting people to “act now”.  We have to overcome their lack of urgency. Because our service will still be there tomorrow, right?  And usually the need to be addressed by us is a future need, and maybe well into the future….so […]
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Why we get fee resistance
by Tony Vidler        Whether we like it or not there is always the possibility of fee resistance in delivering financial advice, and how we present our service is a large part of that problem.  Price is always a problem in the absence of obvious value.  It doesn’t have to be…we just need to think through […]
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Give yourself a better chance of having prospects engage you
by Tony Vidler        There is one simple thing that advisers should do to improve the probability that prospects will engage you: Talk about the outcomes you create for clients rather than talking jargon. In engagement letters and scope of service documents, as well as in advertising brochures or online, too many advisers list their expertise […]
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Nobody Believes Your Advice Is Actually Impartial AND Free
by Tony Vidler        The problem with “FREE” is nobody believes that whatever you are offering is actually free.  It might seem free in terms of there being no invoice or obvious price tag, but that doesn’t mean it is “free” does it? Consumers today are alert, have a world of information in their pocket […]
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You fix financial worries…so why not market that?
by Tony Vidler        It seems pretty much everyone has financial worries. “Investors spend 475 hours a year worrying about money” apparently.  Well I bet the people who don’t have enough to be considered “investors” spend a heck of a lot more time than that worrying about money….but still, this is about 20 days each […]
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