No More Cold Calling

MAY 17, 2019

Asking for referrals feels riskier than cold calling. I’m not sure of the reason, but I have never been comfortable asking for referrals.” That comment was from a 20-year sales veteran, the kind of seasoned pro who should know how to get referrals, and given this person’s track record, should feel confident about asking.

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Referrals Scale How To Cold Calling 327

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 23, 2019

This is a truthful and proven guide for how to ask for referrals. You won’t read that referrals are easy or that all you have to do is ask. What you will read are lessons and insights that I have gleaned from working my referral system with clients for the past 23 years. But referral selling is easier said than done.

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Referrals Scale How To Lead Rank 297

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2021

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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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

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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Referrals Cold Calling Survey Scale 291

No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 1, 2019

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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Referrals System Cold Calling Social Media 289

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Referrals aren’t favors. Salespeople often downplay the importance of referral networks or just don’t know how to ask for a referral. Relationships and referrals are what business is all about! Instead, he talked about the power of relationships for sales. Referrals Aren’t Favors. Boy, was I wrong!

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Referrals How To Cold Calling Lead Generation 310

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 20, 2018

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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Referrals Lead Rank Cold Calling Social Media 260

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Most sales reps dread cold calling, but they don’t exactly fear it. But whether or not they want to admit it, most salespeople do fear asking for referrals. I’ve been asked in the past if women or men are better at referral sales, and I didn’t think it mattered. Why You Need to Make Time for Asking for Referrals.

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Cold Calling Referrals Social Media Sales Qualified Lead 240

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 23, 2019

This is a truthful and proven guide for how to ask for referrals. You won’t read that referrals are easy or that all you have to do is ask. What you will read are lessons and insights that I have gleaned from working my referral system with clients for the past 23 years. But referral selling is easier said than done.

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Referrals Scale How To Lead Rank 228

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

That’s the question I asked more than 500 sales pros. That means three-quarters of account based sales teams have failed to complete the first step in asking for referrals—making it clear who they want to meet. That’s a shame, because every sales rep wants to learn effective methods of generating leads.

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Referrals Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 220

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Why don’t account based selling teams ask for referrals? Why is asking for referrals ad hoc and not a discipline? It makes no sense at all, because every sales leader and account based sales rep knows that referrals are their hottest leads and best business. Sales leaders, here’s what you’re up against: 1.

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Referrals Account Cold Calling Social Media 265

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 7, 2018

I’ve just returned from three conferences, and the #1 challenge I heard sales pros repeat again and again was how to get leads in the pipe. attain quota, and about 65 percent of sales reps in Europe do so. What sales leader would find these stats acceptable? And how can a B2B referral program drive up those numbers?

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 276

MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I have seen and heard tons of techniques and tricks on how to ask for referrals from your customers. I am going to make this short and sweet, because asking for referrals from your clients should be a natural and comfortable act and not some slick technique. The whole problem is in the way you THINK about asking for referrals.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Does your sales team struggle to get referrals? When I read a checklist of account based sales development strategies that omitted referral selling, I asked the creator why. I posted that exact question on LinkedIn and received 35 comments and more than 31,000 views. Here’s why. That sent me over the top.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Author: Matt Kamp For B2B sales teams, referrals are worth their weight in gold. When customers or other companies refer people to you, your company is viewed as more trustworthy in front of those leads, and because of that trust, you can expect a faster – and more successful – sales cycle. That’s a huge jump. Active stage.

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Referrals Company Scale Case Study 177

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2021

Referral sellers have been relationship-building their way through the pandemic. If you have a big-deal prospect or client, you’d better jump on a plane, catch a train, or take a road trip as soon as possible. I wrote that in 2013, back when virtual sales meetings weren’t the only option. But not referral sellers.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

A referral introduction guarantees you score almost every meeting in one call, and you convert prospects to clients well more than 50 percent of the time. In most organizations, referrals are happenstance, because salespeople only occasionally think to ask for a referral. Prospects and clients aren’t happenstance.

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Referrals Gatekeeper Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling 153

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 20, 2017

Here’s how to cure your prospecting problem. Let’s set the record straight: Most everyone on your sales team has call reluctance—whether they’re cold calling or asking for referrals. What’s to fear about prospecting? I use the referral system I developed 20 years ago. Prospecting Creates the Same Fear Today.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Strategy Top of Funnel 208

No More Cold Calling

MAY 25, 2023

Referrals help you stand out in a sea of B2B sellers. One marketing platform or sales enablement app? Stand Out to Meet Quota None of this would matter if sales reps were meeting or exceeding quota, if their pipelines were qualified and their projections accurate, and if they had only committed and loyal clients.

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B2B Buyer Referrals Sales Qualified Lead 177

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 30, 2014

With just a couple months left in 2014, there is still time to step up your selling, meet your quota, and develop a strong pipeline filled with referral-based prospects for the New Year. But begging for forgiveness doesn’t work in marketing and sales. Look Me Up Salespeople must do exacting research. We all are.

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Referrals Cold Calling Ideal Customer Profile Networking 276

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

Are you looking for your B2B sales leads in all the wrong places? Is your sales team searching too many faces, looking for traces of prospects, instead of narrowing the search to recruit only your ideal clients? During these pandemic times, there are fewer opportunities and more competition going after the same exact business.

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Lead Generation B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring 409

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Every sales leader says their #1 prospecting challenge is getting leads in the pipe. Considering half of the deals that are forecasted to close don’t, and customer retention has decreased as seller attrition increases, sales teams are facing yet another frustrating year if something doesn’t change. Try this instead.

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Lead Gen Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 397

Vengreso

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With so many channels available for sales reps to connect, engage, and nurture relationships with potential buyers, getting sales referrals has become even more critical than before to book more sales appointments and grow the sales pipeline. Not all sales or customer referrals are made equal.

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Vengreso

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With so many channels available for sales reps to connect, engage, and nurture relationships with potential buyers, getting sales referrals has become even more critical than before to book more sales appointments and grow the sales pipeline. Not all sales or customer referrals are made equal.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 1, 2013

It’s up to you to lead the referral-selling charge. Whether you are CEO, vice president, or a sales manager , you have a central role in your company’s sales process and in the decision to transition to referral selling—the only business-development strategy proven to convert prospects into clients more than 50 percent of the time.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling Penetration 253

No More Cold Calling

MAY 28, 2017

It happened again … a salesperson asked me to connect on LinkedIn, promised he could help my business, and then wanted to know my definition of referral selling. Referral selling is my brand, my mantra—you know, the sort of thing you look up before reaching out to prospects. Asking for referrals?

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Keith Rosen

AUGUST 13, 2020

How would getting more referrals impact your business? Most salespeople are reluctant to ask for referrals, in fear of the response. Instead, create a referral agreement that would make your customers want to refer tons of referrals to you. What is a Referral? What exactly classifies as a referral?

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 29, 2017

Soliciting contributions was the reason for the call, and I did donate—thanks to the sales savvy of a young man named Ronnie. He didn’t bore me with a long speech about how the symphony doesn’t make enough money from ticket sales to support the arts—a fact we all know. And that’s the reason their sales skyrocket.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 4, 2019

Watch out for the gap in your referral business! Every sales exec says they need more leads in the pipe. That’s a prospecting problem that hasn’t changed in. What these sales execs don’t say is they need more qualified leads. Maybe they fear they won’t be successful if they limit their prospecting opportunities?

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Referrals 301

No More Cold Calling

JULY 21, 2016

Referral selling not working for your team? Think you can just tell sales reps to go ask for referrals? Your Referral Sales Strategies Are Missing Something. Referrals don’t just happen, at least not at scale. Why do you need disciplined referral sales strategies ? Here’s what you’re missing!

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 31, 2013

A company tells its salespeople to do their research—to gather every piece of sales intelligence; exploit all of their social media channels; know a little bit about the prospect and the trigger events at his company; and then all their salespeople need to do is call or email with a pithy, targeted message to get the meeting.

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Referrals Cold Calling Conversion Social Media 207

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 29, 2018

Yet, it’s so easy to sit back and wait for leads from marketing or SDRs—or even worse, to spend hours sending connection requests on LinkedIn, thinking these are actually sales leads. Just because someone agrees to connect on social media does not make that person a qualified sales lead. Commit to referral selling.

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Lead Generation Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 199

No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Message to cold callers: Pestering strangers is NOT the way to prospect. Cold calling is a duplicitous, disingenuous sales tactic. If you make 100 calls, you’ll talk to about 20 people, schedule 10 sales appointments, and if you’re lucky, close one new deal. Why would you bother with a sales system that gets such dismal results?

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 13, 2021

I almost fell out of my chair when I heard this from a VP of Sales. But the same is true if they’re using that sales approach when meeting in-person. There’s a saying in sales: Clients buy with emotion and justify with fact. Start with a Referral Introduction. Start with a Referral Introduction. How do you do that?

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Ideal Customer Profile Social Media Referrals Sage 290

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Social media, marketing automation, AI, predictive analytics, and all kinds of technology have cast doubt on traditional sales techniques and encouraged organizations to rely on digital sales prospecting. Every sales leader wants to know how to generate leads—not just any leads, but qualified leads. Well, sure.

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Lead Gen Call-back Lead Rank Lead Scoring 307

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Think sales has changed a lot? But while technology may power sales research, people still power the close. . They also win by getting referrals. And it certainly won’t solve our sales challenges. Our topic: “How to get the one-call referral meeting.” My referral source, Larry, is one of Bill’s largest clients.

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