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| Page 1 of 2 | Previous | Next | SALES AND MANAGEMENT BLOG FEBRUARY 19, 2013 Building Your Business on Referrals Part 1: Understanding the 4 Pillars of a Successful Referral At first glance, a referral is a pretty simple thing. For most sellers, managers, and trainers, a referral is just a name and phone number that a client has given once the seller has completed the sale, has done a good job for the client, and then asks a general question such as, “do you know of anyone else that I might be able to help?,” Once a seller has received a referral, contacting the referred party is just as simple. Nevertheless, this is what is taught in almost every sales course that mentions referrals. A very simple, straightforward process. MORE >> | SALES AND MANAGEMENT BLOG FEBRUARY 21, 2013 Building Your Business on Referrals Pt. 2: Asking for Referrals is Bad Practice OK, I know, you’ve been told your entire life as a salesperson that you have to ask for referrals and that if you don’t you’ll fail. The above situation is so common that a great many sellers simply stop asking, thinking that referrals are nothing more than sales mythology, while others, thinking they are the cause of the failure to generate significant numbers of quality referrals, continue to ask with little success and a growing sense of frustration and failure. Referral generation fails primarily because of the way most sellers have been taught to seek referrals. MORE >> | RECENT POSTS MAY 24, 2013 | GKIC BLOG How To Make More Money On Memorial Day (Or Any Holiday) MAY 2, 2013 | NO MORE COLD CALLING Earn the Right to Ask APRIL 5, 2013 | BOB BURG'S BLOG The Power of Why – A Chat with Richard Weylman MARCH 25, 2013 | INCREASE SALES In the Sales Process There Are Consequences to the Keeping Phase MARCH 21, 2013 | NO MORE COLD CALLING 4 Reasons to Lock in Your Ideal Clients MARCH 14, 2013 | GKIC BLOG Six Tips For Using This Shortcut To Success Tool | | | | | | SALES AND MANAGEMENT BLOG JUNE 11, 2011 Understand the Four Pillars of a Referral and You’ll Get More and Better Referrals At first glance, a referral is a pretty simple thing. For most salespeople, managers, and trainers, a referral is just a name and phone number that a client has given the salesperson once the salesperson has completed the sale and has done a good job for the client. Once a salesperson has received a referral, contacting the referred party is just as simple. Generating a large number of high quality referrals requires far more than “doing a good job and asking for referrals.” A very simple, straightforward process. MORE >> | INCREASE SALES JULY 14, 2012 Hanging Up Not the Best for Future Sales Referrals Believe it or not I was hung up by a salesperson who made it a very clear he was seeking sales referrals after he had sold me on his solution. What prompted this action does require sharing of the events leading up to this not the best sales referral strategy. The customer service representative was a younger person (male) and I carefully explained what happened including sharing the exact message I had received because I wrote it down. Would I make a sales referral to this salesperson ever again. Credit www.sxc.hu. There was a strange message which I wrote down. MORE >> | SALES AND MANAGEMENT BLOG MAY 22, 2011 How to Turn Referral Partnerships from Wishful Thinking into Business Producing Machines Why have top producers found working with other professionals for referrals to work so well while so many others have failed to capitalize on them? often hear sellers and managers–and even some sales trainers–talk about seeking out ‘referral sources’ to help them find and connect with prospects. These referral sources tend to be sellers or companies who are likely to deal with people or companies that would be great prospects for the seller and who might need or want their product or service. Why do these “referral sources” need these sellers? MORE >> | NO MORE COLD CALLING APRIL 21, 2011 Adopt a Targeted Referral Strategy Make referral selling your priority. On the one hand, sales people agree that referral selling is hands-down their best sales strategy. It’s a completely different animal to implement a referral strategy. What does it take to implement a Targeted Referral Strategy? Make referral selling your priority. Either you adopt referral sales, or you don’t. Get Real. MORE >> | | | | | | | | | -
SALES AND MANAGEMENT BLOG | TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2011 Five Keys to Generating High Quality Referrals From the time we enter the sales industry we’ve heard that referrals are by far the best prospecting and marketing method in existence. Yet, very few of us actually get very many high quality referrals. . However, most of these “referrals” are worthless–just names and phone numbers of people or businesses that have no interest in or need for or can’t afford our product or service. They’ve learned that what most of us are doing to get referrals—just asking a question such as, “Ms. Ask for referrals: Sounds stupid right? They assume the client knows. MORE >> -
NO MORE COLD CALLING | WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2011 Referral Selling Workshop: The No More Cold Calling Workshop. Referral Selling Training Programs. So, if you want to know exactly what you need to do to change your prospecting tactics to generate more sales without being pushy and salesy, I will show you how to mine the San Francisco Business Times for leads, attract your ideal client, ace out the competition, rev up your sales, and convert prospects to paying clients more than 50 percent of the time. Referral selling rocks! Based on my proven methodology, and No More Cold Calling’s referral-selling tools, you’ll blow past your sales forecast and deliver sales you can bank on. MORE >> -
NO MORE COLD CALLING | THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013 Earn the Right to Ask 'You must earn the right to ask for referrals—which is why your clients are your best possible Referral Sources. For example, I recently read a comment stream in which someone said that you can ask for referrals from anyone you meet and that it’s often easier to get referrals from new contacts than from existing clients. Referral selling is the most personal selling you can do. Referrals are based on trust , which means you must earn the right to ask. Existing clients are our best—and often most under-leveraged—source of referrals. MORE >> -
BOB BURG'S BLOG | THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012 Embrace Your Inner Salesperson ” And, exactly what do you give when you sell? Endless Referrals The Go-Giver sell selling“Sell Without Selling!” ” … “Never Sell Again!” ” … “Salesless Selling!” ” Have you noticed the proliferation of teachings and articles telling you that you don’t need to sell in order to … sell? often hear salespeople try and deny they are salespeople. Examples: “I’m in sales but I don’t really sell …I just help people.” ” This sales-denial is not meant to be dishonest. MORE >> -
SALES AND MANAGEMENT BLOG | TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2011 Bust Your Slump: Fast Track Referrals to Fill Your Pipeline in 30 Days Referrals are difficult for most salespeople to generate. By learning a disciplined, effective, proven process for generating a large number of high quality referrals from each of your clients and even your prospects, referral selling can become a reality. Yet of course, you can’t possibly learn and implement a systematic process of referral generation and expect to see significant results in only 30 days. If you expect to use referrals as an igniter of your pipeline in short order, you’ll have to do all of the work for your clients. Get the Referrals. MORE >> - Asking For a Referral Is Not Asking For a Favor NO MORE COLD CALLING | THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011
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