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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. Whether you are a CEO, vice president, or sales manager, you have a central role in your company’s sales process and in the decision to transition from vapid outbound prospecting to selling through referrals. Change Your Team into Referral Sales Experts: 5 Steps.

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How to Reach Decision Makers Every Time

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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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How To Approach A New Referral

MTD Sales Training

So you’ve achieved that great goal of getting a referral from a customer. How should you approach this referral? So be aware of what the link is between the referrer and the person you are going to approach. Next, what does the referrer know about the person? Next, determine how you should get in touch.

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

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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. I asked how that approach was working for him. One author stated that 20 percent of a company’s clients should come from referrals.

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Relationships Always Rule [Q4 Referral Selling Roundup]

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

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

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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.

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