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How to Ask for Referrals: A Comprehensive Guide

No More Cold Calling

This is a truthful and proven guide for how to ask for referrals. You won’t read that referrals are easy or that all you have to do is ask. What you will read are lessons and insights that I have gleaned from working my referral system with clients for the past 23 years. But referral selling is easier said than done.

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Why Your Account Based Sales Team Will Never Be Good at Referrals

No More Cold Calling

Does your sales team struggle to get referrals? When I read a checklist of account based sales development strategies that omitted referral selling, I asked the creator why. I posted that exact question on LinkedIn and received 35 comments and more than 31,000 views. Here’s why. That sent me over the top.

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How to Ask for Referrals: A Comprehensive Guide

No More Cold Calling

This is a truthful and proven guide for how to ask for referrals. You won’t read that referrals are easy or that all you have to do is ask. What you will read are lessons and insights that I have gleaned from working my referral system with clients for the past 23 years. But referral selling is easier said than done.

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Don’t Let Your Sales Team Get Spooked: October Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

No, Halloween isn’t so scary, but account based sales can be. Sales leaders and their teams have lots of fears: “We have a quota looming over our heads. But the good news is that referral selling mitigates these fears. I posted that exact question on LinkedIn and received 35 comments and more than 31,000 views.

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Why You Should STOP Cold Calling Immediately (2020 Update)

No More Cold Calling

Cold calling is a duplicitous, disingenuous sales tactic. If you make 100 calls, you’ll talk to about 20 people, schedule 10 sales appointments, and if you’re lucky, close one new deal. Why would you bother with a sales system that gets such dismal results? Why would you bother with a sales system that gets such dismal results?

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How to Get More Referrals Now

No More Cold Calling

Now imagine a sales world where you only meet with clients who want to meet with you —a world where you never have to cold call, send prospecting letters, pester strangers on social media, or entice clients with special offers. Enter the world of referral selling. What Makes Referral Selling So Critical?

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Reasons Cold Calling Is No Good for Account-Based Sellers

No More Cold Calling

No salesperson should ever have to cold call to generate sales leads. So, why are account-based sellers wasting time with cold calling and marketing-generated leads when referral introductions could get them the one-call meeting ? Sales reps often tell me they’re not cold calling. They’ve done their research.