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How to balance client time with practice development

by Tony Vidler A genuine challenge for advice firms right now is balancing client time as well as do all the work necessary to lift standards and improve business systems. There are after all only so many hours in a day, but then there are deadlines for when new standards and rules have to be […]

Target Marketing: The Smart Play For Marketing Your Advice Business

by Tony Vidler Target marketing is usually the difference between those firms who get the right sort of clients, and those who just get customers. Clients follow advice, because they value it. Customers engage in transactions. They buy products. They take a bit of advice here and there…as it suits them. Trying to get more […]

Is Insurance Churn Really The Issue We Think It is?

by Tony Vidler Any time an insurance product is replaced by an adviser with an alternative one someone begins howling about “insurance churn” or “twisting of policies” and the immediate inference is that something unethical just occurred. Sometimes that is true of course, and there are undoubtedly bottom feeders in the industry who survive by […]

What’s The Plan To Thrive Amidst All This Change?

by Tony Vidler Is there a cunning plan for your practice to thrive amidst the changes coming at the financial advice sector from all directions? What is the plan then? What is the strategy? Those 2 questions might look like the same question, but they are not quite. The cunning idea, or the strategy, is […]

How to make sure email marketing is effective

by Tony Vidler Effective email marketing is a lot tougher now than just 2 or 3 years ago, yet it is still one of the most effective marketing methods available if we get it right. In the old days, say 4 years ago, a good mailing list together with a branded email platform and […]

The Ultimate Personal Brand Position: Own A Word

by Tony Vidler The ultimate goal in building a strong personal brand is to own a word in your target markets mind. It may be own a phrase rather than own “a word” of course, but the point is you want to be KNOWN for something. You want to create a position where your target […]

Professional Practice Evolution: What Separates Modern Professionals From The Past?

by Tony Vidler There are lessons to be learned from the evolution of the modern professional practice for those who are not there yet. There is also no doubt that a number of financial advisers and practices are still evolving, or yet to begin the journey if they are to avoid being rendered redundant. When […]

Paying COI’s: Perhaps prepare for the harvest before you prepare for the feast

by Tony Vidler Is it appropriate to be paying COI’s a share of your success from their influences? Or, to put it bluntly, nother way, should you share remuneration or the spoils of the sale with referrers? Personally, I think not. However, it is actually just a little more complicated than that […]

How One Successful Financial Planner Gets New Business (part 2)

by Tony Vidler Professionals are always interested in what other professionals are doing that leads to new business and becoming more successful. The constant question is: “What are others doing that are successful for them?” In a previous post one leading financial planner shared where he gets his new business from, and the […]

Making the move into charging fees for advice

by Tony Vidler The easiest way for advisers who are worried about trying to charge fees for their expertise or time is to sell a service which is not product related at all. This seems daunting to the many financial advisers who have “grown up” in an environment where they were paid by commissions […]

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