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Sales Managers: Think You’re Ready for Referrals?

No More Cold Calling

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. That’s why we need sales managers. Actually, what we need is strong sales leadership. Sales managers do what they ask others to do.

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How Getting Fired Actually Launched My Referral Business

No More Cold Calling

I didn’t plan to start my referral business so soon. From Consulting Business to Referral Business. It never crossed my mind that I’d launch a referral business. I would work with small-to-medium companies to craft their sales strategy. Fifty of this company’s best clients said they’d be glad to give referrals.

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Want to Get Referrals? (Don’t Do This)

No More Cold Calling

Don’t assume your team knows how to ask for referrals. Tim told me his team was “doing referrals.” He figured they knew how to get referrals because he told them to do it. The web is replete with articles and webcasts that tell people to just go ask for referrals, like it’s common sense or something. Dead silence.

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Relationships Always Rule [Q4 Referral Selling Roundup]

No More Cold Calling

The most valuable business relationships that salespeople have are those with our clients—the people who know our value, give us repeat business, and provide us with referrals to other great clients. How do I ask for a referral from customers I haven’t spoken with in two years?” Why You Can’t Automate Referral Leads.

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Use a Sales Referral Strategy to Close 70% of Your Deals

Alice Heiman

If a referral closes up to 70% of the time, why are we spending most of our effort on strategies that close less than 1% of the time?! A typical B2B sales strategy relies on Sales Development Reps (SDRs) making cold calls or cold emails to try to set up an appointment for an Account Executive (AE) to deliver a sales pitch.

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If Done Right, Your Referral System Won’t Actually Cost a Thing

No More Cold Calling

Referral makers don’t want your money. You’re going to pay me how much for referral business? You’ll let me know if this was a good referral for you. You’ll let me know if this was a good referral for you. You’ll send me a handwritten thank-you note , whether the referral worked out … or not. We all know why.

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Without Fundamentals, You’ve Got Nothing (June Referral Selling Insights)

No More Cold Calling

Why it’s important to train from the trenches. From now on, I am going to make it a fixed rule that no unit, from the time it reaches this theater until the war is won, will ever stop training.”. I also learned about the intense training that our allied troops underwent and the critical importance of ongoing training.

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