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Are You a Sales Stalker? [Q3 Referral Selling Insights]

No More Cold Calling

I accepted his standard invitation, thinking he might be a good connection, and sent him a personal message, inviting him to contact me with any questions about referral selling. His response: “What is referral selling?” The second you respond, you get a sales pitch. So, why aren’t they getting referrals at scale?

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Stop Neglecting Your Most Valuable Sales Channel [Q2 Referral Selling Insights]

No More Cold Calling

For nearly three decades, my sole focus has been helping growing companies leverage referrals to drive revenue. Sales teams continue to face more and more pressure to ramp up. Your most neglected sales channel is your existing client base. Everyone agrees that referrals are the best source of new business. Is it working?

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The Phrase of the Year Is Seller Access

No More Cold Calling

Why the sudden interest in referral sales? Referrals are as old as time. Sales leaders have an ongoing challenge to get more qualified leads in the pipe, but seller access has evaporated. Referrals are based on trust. You can ask: During the sales process when you’ve added value. What’s old is new again.

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Why Should I Give You a Referral?

No More Cold Calling

Referral sales is personal … but it’s still business. 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. My Referral I.Q.

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How to Harness the Power of Business Referrals

No More Cold Calling

It’s time to get serious about business referrals. In spite of numerous misconceptions and poor implementation, referrals in business are where the power is. But the first step to harnessing this power is understanding just what referral selling is and how it feeds your sales machine. Sales is hard enough.

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Why Asking for Referrals Isn’t All That Matters for Account Based Selling Teams

No More Cold Calling

Let’s set the record straight: You can’t depend solely on referrals to fill your pipeline. As you probably know by now, my point of view is that referral selling is the most powerful account based sales development strategy, and it’s the only effective use of salespeople’s time. That’s not asking for referrals.

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The Best Cold Calling Tip Is Stop Immediately (Do This Instead)

No More Cold Calling

percent of sales reps made quota last year. Cold calling doesn’t address the top two challenges that sales teams face. That means sales reps spend a lot of time on the phone, getting absolutely nowhere. No wonder quota attainment and qualified lead generation continue to be problems for most sales organizations.