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AI-Powered Selling and the Social Graph

Sales 2.0

It’s always been true that a referral beats any other lead, with referrals converting to customers 50% of the time, according to Joanne Black. AI will help us use our “social graph” to find referrals without spending too much time on research. The best tool today for this research is LinkedIn.

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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?! For the first movers, these strategies worked especially in combination with an SDR and AE funnel, where gated content is used to capture prospect contact data. Referrals were hit and miss.

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Leveraging Referrals to Build Your Network and Grow Your Business

Janek Performance Group

For as long as there have been sales, there have been referrals. However, in B2B selling, referrals are more than positive reviews. With that, seeking and gaining referrals is not as easy as it sounds. Therefore, referrals cannot be left to chance. With referrals, the benefits are clear. This makes timing critical.

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How to Reach Decision Makers Every Time

No More Cold Calling

A referral is the best way to get a meeting with the decision maker. Referrals help you ace Part One and set you up for success in Part Two. That’s an over-simplification, I know, but it’s the easiest way for people to understand the power of a referral introduction. Part Two: Everything that happens after that.

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Forget About Your Sales Comfort Zone [January Referral Selling Insights]

No More Cold Calling

What excites me is working with prospects and clients on referral selling and experiencing together the dramatic results they achieve. I’ll have a new platform for my referral course, and I might even have a new CRM. Sales Managers: Think You’re Ready for Referrals? Read “ Sales Managers: Think You’re Ready for Referrals?

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[Missed Connections]: November Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

Referral selling is by far the most effective sales strategy out there. It’s just that some of the tools have changed in the digital age. Or you can make the connections you already have stronger—a strategy that’s much more likely to grow your referral network and fill your sales pipeline with hot leads. Learn more.)

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Is Your Lead Generation Data Leading You Astray?

No More Cold Calling

You can do what the data tells you, or you can do what works. Which do you trust more—the lead generation data manufactured by sales technology tools and artificial intelligence, or your intuition, which is generated by years of experience and your emotional intelligence? That was our data. your referral sources).