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A Guide to Building a Referral Network for Your SMB

Act!

However, most small and midsize businesses can’t afford expensive advertising campaigns to attract potential clients. Today’s buyers are spoiled for choice when they have to make a purchase decision. A devoted referral network can help you stand out in such a buyer-driven market.

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5 Proactive Ways to Increase Sales Online in 2021

Sales and Marketing Management

Use the hard data to come up with a buyer persona that informs your marketing strategy going forward. Content marketing generates more than 3x the leads as advertising and costs 62% less. If you’re not sure who your core audience is, try using Google Analytics to see who’s already visiting your site and buying your products/services.

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Buying Patterns: 3 Helpful Ways to Respond to Buyer Priorities

LeadFuze

Salespeople sometimes find the buying patterns of buyers to be quite baffling. For many years, I’ve spent a good part of my career in purchasing and in sales, I’ve learned that buyers do not think the same way salespeople think. And, just as good salespeople have a system for selling, good buyers have buying patterns.

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5 Ways to Leverage Word-of-Mouth Marketing in a Digital Age

Zoominfo

Maybe an advertisement or commercial influenced your decision. Let’s look at three key factors: Trust: The modern buyer is increasingly skeptical of traditional marketing tactics for obvious reasons. In fact, customers are 92% more likely to trust their peers over advertising when it comes to making purchase decisions ( source ).

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The Beginner’s Guide to Referral Marketing

Zoominfo

Customers are 92% more likely to trust the word of their peers over traditional advertising ( source ). The customers you reach out to first for referrals should be the ones who have demonstrated the most loyalty to your company. Keep in mind: a customer who doesn’t demonstrate strong loyalty might still end up giving a referral.

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Three Ways a Loyalty Program Helps You Keep Customers – and Find New Ones

SugarCRM

We’re living in an exciting time for loyalty marketing. But how exactly does a loyalty program do this for businesses? This article explores three ways loyalty programs can be used as an all-around marketing tool for current customers as well as new leads, too. But first, let’s define a loyalty program. We miss you!”

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7 Key Elements of a High-Converting Sales Funnel

Sales Hacker

Each funnel stage defines your steps to turn prospective buyers into customers, even if they’ve never heard of your business before. The number of potential clients will diminish at each stage of the funnel, with only a fraction converting to buyers. Clearly defined buyer personas. Purchase behavior.