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…so, which urgent and important person comes first?

From Tony Vidler - Adviser to the Advisers

The classic urgent AND important dilemma: your best client is on the phone talking to you. An incoming call from your top Centre-of-Influence comes in while talking to your best

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21 Nov 2016

5 easy ways to use social media to get noticed by your prospects

From Tony Vidler - Adviser to the Advisers

Advisers keep saying that they struggle to get noticed by their ideal prospects. Advisers also keep saying that they can’t see the point of social media. Uhhhmmm….maybe the thing they

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24 Oct 2016

Vision: Because your future has to start somewhere

From Tony Vidler - Adviser to the Advisers

Vision is the thing that initially drives all progress. Somebody’s view of how something can be…will be….is the catalyst for achievement of great change. Who will ever forget the power

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26 Sep 2016

Pitching your marketing to the target client’s buying journey

From Tony Vidler - Adviser to the Advisers

Every practice needs to be pitching their marketing efforts at the ideal point in the target market’s buying process, because no practice has enough money and time to cover every

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12 Sep 2016

State your opinion to get noticed

From Tony Vidler - Adviser to the Advisers

Forming and then delivering an opinion is what professional advisers do for a living. With every client and every engagement opinions are created and expressed. Virtually every incoming phone call

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18 Aug 2016

The art of being present (without being a nuisance)

From Tony Vidler - Adviser to the Advisers

Promoting our personal professional brand is essentially all about creating top-of-mind-awareness. Being the person that our target market thinks of, and then calls, when they recognise a need or desire

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21 Jun 2016

Give yourself a chance when marketing

From Tony Vidler - Adviser to the Advisers

There is one simple thing that advisers should do to improve the marketing of themselves and their services: talk about the outcomes you create for clients rather than talking jargon. In

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20 May 2016

You are probably closer to being “An Authority” than you realise

From Tony Vidler - Adviser to the Advisers

If you have bought into the key concept of providing good quality content, or information, to prospects in order to engage them until they are ready to use your services, the

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26 Apr 2016

Grow great people if you want to grow a great business

From Tony Vidler - Adviser to the Advisers

It is terribly simplified of course, but if you want to grow a great business then you need to grow some great people at some point in the process. If

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17 Mar 2016

Financial advisers’ problem? Offering to do too much

From Tony Vidler - Adviser to the Advisers

Despite a couple of decades of positioning, developing and improving technical knowledge and qualifications, many financial professionals are struggling to get enough clients to engage in holistic planning. We need

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08 Feb 2016

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