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How to Handle: “I want to speak to some references.”

Mr. Inside Sales

How do you deal with the “I need to speak to some references” objection? As you already know, when someone asks for references there is usually something they are not sold on. What you need are different approaches that get your prospect to open up and tell you what their real concerns are. Let them respond]. “Of Of course not.

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Celebrating 25 Years in Referrals: My Story

No More Cold Calling

Concurrently, they were conducting a survey with different questions each round—depending on respondents’ answers to the previous questions. To this day, I don’t know why, but I added this question on the last round. Fifty of the company’s best clients said they’d be glad to refer them! My client was thrilled, of course.

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How We Burned The Boats and Lived To Tell The Story

Bernadette McClelland

And during those 12 months, we have been asked these 7 questions many times over: 'How did you just up and move?' He just had to carry the bags What I refer to as my ‘9 category school project’ was nervously submitted and I waited in pure anticipation. What are the biggest changes?' 'How

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4 Must Read Books that will Change your Plan for 2024

Alice Heiman

This year, I set a goal to read at least two books a month. Most months I get two read, and occasionally more depending on how much time I have on airplanes. I find I get more books finished these days if I listen rather than read. One for fun and one for business. I was right and wrong.

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Sales Managers: Think You’re Ready for Referrals?

No More Cold Calling

I’ve been there—given a quota (usually without my input) and a list of client companies, and then told to “go at it” and do whatever it takes to get meetings. Above all, your job is to get the rocks out of the road for your salespeople—your account executives and everyone on your sales team—so they can do what they were hired to do: Sell!

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Why Should I Give You a Referral?

No More Cold Calling

I recently received the following email: “I finished your book on referral sales last night, and now I’m building my 100 names so that I can ask for introductions to a couple of decent sales reps with some experience selling to my market. He clearly didn’t read my book. They then wonder why they don’t get referrals. There it is.

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How Getting Fired Actually Launched My Referral Business

No More Cold Calling

There’s always a silver lining to getting sacked. My employer gave me two weeks to get my accounts in order. I added a question on the last round: “Would you be willing to offer a referral to this client?”. To this day, I have no idea where the question came from, but that survey was the genesis of my business.

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