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Make your professional designations mean something to clients

by Tony Vidler Why aren’t more financial advisers using their professional designations and qualifications better? There is no doubt that there has been an increasing proportion of advisers pursuing professional designations, and an increasing number of niche choices in doing so, and there are more advisers with more acronyms than ever before. Do […]

Even Great Advisers Can Use A Coach

by Tony Vidler Great advisers can use a coach. Even great advisers running great practices can use a coach. Pretty bold assertions, right? I mean, after all, we are talking about people who are actually pretty damned good at what they do AND they are good at running the business as well. […]

Here is how to work out WHERE to compete

by Tony Vidler 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 worked out (so we know who we want to appeal to) we have to decide […]

Answer The 3 Questions That Help Them Choose You

by Tony Vidler 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 process helps prospects move along the buying (decision-making) path by pre-empting their concerns and need […]

How “personal” should your personal service be?

by Tony Vidler It is our livelihood in many respects, yet one of the vaguest phrases we use is “personal service”. What is a personal service is not necessarily the same as a personalised service, and what is personal to one client may not be deemed a personal service to another. So how […]

Dependability: Is it a differentiator?

by Tony Vidler While talking to a very experienced and successful adviser I asked him what he put his phenomenal success down to. He said: “I am dependable”. As simple as that…a 40 year record of happy clients and success in financial services is summed up. He doesn’t claim to be the […]

Reaching todays “common client”

by Tony Vidler Reaching todays common client is not easy for professionals. They are easy to find for sure, but reaching them and getting their attention is something else again. When you consider how a buying process happens today it becomes a lot easier to understand why it is so hard – and what […]

Get better marketing results by using what’s in your hand

by Tony Vidler Every adviser wants better marketing results – no matter how good the existing results are. We want more, because in more or better marketing results lies the ability to leverage our businesses. Yet in the constant search for more or better many advisers are overlooking the thing in their hands: their […]

What is NOT a Value Proposition…and what is.

by Tony Vidler Value Proposition. It is the value that you propose to deliver to a potential customer. What it is not is anything other than the value you propose to deliver to them. Seems simple enough, doesn’t it? Apparently it isn’t though. Pretty much every professional you talk to […]

An easy way to work out how to express your advice value

by Tony Vidler 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 clever marketing message. “Your value” could be expressed as what benefits you can deliver for them. […]

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