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5 ways to make smarter use of your CRM system

by Tony Vidler In days gone by Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems were used as little more than simple marketing machines. They contained enough information to know who your clients were and how to contact them, and perhaps even had some prospects in there, and be able to produce a mail merge to run […]

Where to begin with social media marketing?

by Tony Vidler As professional advisers are more often than not still contemplating how to use social media as part of their overall marketing and client communication strategies 3 huge questions dominate their thinking: 1. Which social media platform should I use? 2. What should I post or publish? 3. How often should I […]

3 things will get you attention and traction with Twitter.

by Tony Vidler “How should I use Twitter” is the question which follows the decision to embrace it. In other words, how do you get Twitter attention and then get traction with a following? There has been a paradigm shift in recent years as more and more information is available, and on more […]

How Big Is The Goldmine WITHIN An Advisers’ Practice?

by Tony Vidler Just how much opportunity is sitting inside the typical adviser practice? How much new business is waiting inside that existing database? It Is Usually A Goldmine. A report from a couple of years ago highlights the point: A lot of clients do not give advisers all their investable funds. […]

The Professional Services Firm Model Of The Future Is Possibly A “Fast Food Alley”

by Tony Vidler Ever noticed how the fast food stores tend to cluster together as some sort of “fast food alley”? Have you ever wondered why? There is a “convenience” element for the typical customer of course, however there is a more important reason – which might just be a useful lesson for professionals […]

20 Lessons in the evolution of a LinkedIn user

by Tony Vidler Back in the beginning of my personal social media evolution, about 3 years ago, a friend sent me a LinkedIn connection request…and I had no idea what LinkedIn was, or why I should bother using it. So being a brilliant technology user, I rang him to find out why he had sent […]

The Financial Adviser Dinosaur: Not yet extinct

by Tony Vidler Despite all the changes in financial services over recent years the “Financial Adviser Dinosaur” is far from extinct. Bear in mind that pretty much everything I know about dinosaurs has been learned from watching all the Jurassic Park movies – twice, so I am a bit of an authority on them. […]

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