<br />
Marketing Focus:<br />
The value of marketing<br />
for advisory businesses<br />
Whether advisory businesses<br />
need to have a marketing<br />
strategy is an interesting<br />
question to ask around the<br />
market. For some advisers it is seen as a waste of<br />
time as the majority of their business comes from<br />
referrals, either from existing clients or professional<br />
connections. For others, by building a defined<br />
brand for the firm and keeping a presence in<br />
the market, marketing helps to bring in a steady<br />
stream of new prospects.<br />
Invariably, having a defined marketing strategy<br />
goes hand-in-hand with a desire to grow and<br />
scale a business, or where a firm wants to target<br />
a niche section of the market.<br />
There is also a train of thought that sees marketing<br />
as becoming more of a necessity in response to<br />
the encroaching online or robo advice services,<br />
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