Alice Heiman

MARCH 7, 2023

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?! At that time, digital marketing efforts were focused primarily on building websites and email marketing campaigns. Referrals were hit and miss.

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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. Let’s cheat and ask for referrals.”

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Author: Matt Kamp For B2B sales teams, referrals are worth their weight in gold. In fact, most companies experience close rates of 10% to 30% from most lead sources, while referral-based sales tend to close at 50% to 70%. To do this at scale, you need systems and a repeatable process in place. That’s a huge jump. The secret?

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Zoominfo

APRIL 18, 2022

Recruitment Management Systems are a combination of technology platforms that reduce the number of manual tasks recruiters must take on in this scenario. Here, we take a close look at the role of recruitment management systems and the benefits of implementing them in your organization. What is the function of recruitment management?

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 20, 2017

Let’s set the record straight: Most everyone on your sales team has call reluctance—whether they’re cold calling or asking for referrals. I use the referral system I developed 20 years ago. The marketing department mailed VHS tapes (yes, it was that long ago) about our new product to VPs of Sales at Fortune 1000 companies.

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Vengreso

JULY 5, 2023

As the world of sales continues to evolve, Digital Sales Referrals have emerged as a powerful tool for driving business growth. We delve into the concept of digital referrals, emphasizing their importance in making warm introductions. Say hello to social media networking, email marketing, content creation, and SEO.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 27, 2020

What do the following have in common: Referrals, Meetings, Minimal Marketing, and Maximum Impact? Get the referral, get the meeting. You’ve heard me say that many times, but it’s now come to life—with a provocative addition from my colleague Sonia Dumas, who says “ Marketing is Minimal, Impact is Maximum.”

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 29, 2018

Wouldn’t it be great if we could put our iPads under our pillows and awaken with a referral system that delivers qualified leads to our pipelines day after day? LinkedIn Learning has just released my complete referral system. I share plenty of referral examples and explain why referral sales works.

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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. Referral selling is the most personal kind of selling on the planet.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

When you prospect by referral, you treat all customers like gold. I’ve never had a good customer experience at that market, but this was over the top. They can also help fill your pipeline with referrals to piping hot leads. That’s why a referral culture leads to a stellar customer experience. I’d had it.

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Sales 2.0

MARCH 6, 2024

or inbound via the efforts of their marketing department. Getting referrals : Most salespeople do not ask for enough referrals. It’s an oddity of the psychology in our profession that many people would rather go through the mental grinder of cold calling than risk asking their existing customers for referrals.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 25, 2020

Of all the B2B lead generation tools at your disposal, referral selling is the most effective and least expensive. Yet, most companies miss the mark on referrals and instead make these common sales prospecting mistakes. How’s that for attracting new clients in a highly competitive market? Referrals are lifelong.

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BuzzBoard

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Strategies for Obtaining Referrals and Testimonials from Satisfied Small Business Clients The success of digital marketing agencies largely depends on their ability to attract and retain small, local businesses. One effective way to do this is by obtaining referrals and testimonials from satisfied clients.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 4, 2017

Asking for referrals? Digital Referrals? Your account-based selling team breaks all the rules of social selling when they ask for referrals on LinkedIn. Selling—and referral selling in particular—requires real relationships, not just social media connections. Referral Selling IS Social Selling.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Whether they want a new accountant, a builder, a marketing firm, a lawyer, a technology solution, or a new bank, most people don’t pick one at random via Google. Because referral selling is, hands down, the most effective and least expensive way to attract and retain new clients. It’s called referral selling. Think about it.

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Adaptive Business Services

AUGUST 4, 2020

While I am performing a number of initiatives, a big one is upping my game in the referral marketing (sales) arena by taking a course from a gentleman, Tom Gay , who I have known for over 10 years. The post Configuring Nimble CRM for Touch and Referral Tracking [Video] appeared first on Adaptive Business Services.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 30, 2017

And all traits that make women especially talented at asking for and receiving referrals. Referrals and relationships are two sides of the same coin. For more on women in sales—and the power of referrals for lead generation—check out this month’s blog posts from No More Cold Calling: Women in Sales: 5 Ways to Get Your Voice Heard.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In this expert insight interview, Justin discusses “ how using a training system to reinvent the real estate brokerages can increase businesses and referrals.”. How should realtors deal with the crowded market? Furthermore, referrals are a powerful and consistent source of new leads. Build your solid personal brand.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 1, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as metrics that measure team-wide performance — and are great for digital marketing teams. In fact, 65% of B2B marketers use KPIs to measure their content performance. If you’re not entirely sure what’s working and what’s not for your marketing team, add KPIs into your strategies.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Disruption and uncertainty are inevitable in these times, which is why a solid go-to-market plan is critical to address the unique stage and goals of any given company. ZoomInfo has identified four areas — or quadrants — that together create a framework for a successful go-to-market approach: Build loyalty. Market expansion.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 31, 2017

If you believe that video is the end-all, be-all for sales training and content marketing, you’re mistaken. Trying to teach reps how to close without addressing the broken links in your lead generation system will not yield sustainable B2B sales leads. Or you can call it what I’ve always called it: referral selling.

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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. By receiving referral introductions from people your prospects know and trust. Commit to referral selling. Sorry to say it, but they’re not.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 7, 2015

Guest blogger Ken Thoreson tells how to grow your referral networks. After all, networking is one of the most important marketing best practices for a sales professional. After all, networking is one of the most important marketing best practices for a sales professional. Which fit your vertical focus?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 11, 2021

We found it in referral selling. Leads with a trusted referral were 82% more likely to SAL than ones that did not come through the referral network. Referral selling is resource-intensive, so it doesn’t work for smaller deals. Once we knew who we were targeting, it was time to take stock of our referral opportunities.

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Nutshell

JULY 5, 2019

Referral marketing is the unicorn of B2B marketing. In simple terms, referral marketing is when you get your customers to tell their friends about you. But referral marketing isn’t just for brick-and-mortar businesses. The value of a B2B referral. Referrals are cheap.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Here’s a hint: Any sales tactics, activities, or systems that help you build relationships with clients and prospects are worth the time and effort. When you receive referral introductions from people your prospects know and trust, their gatekeepers will happily patch you through. You’re not fooling anybody. Learn more.) [Top

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Smart brands know they must build strategies and systems to generate, track and manage brand advocacy. By encouraging and empowering these customers, employees and influencers, they will drive peer-to-peer referrals, forward content, share information about new products and promotions, and write testimonials. And it works.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 19, 2015

Teaser: Even though most sales organizations recognize the impact of referral selling, 95 percent of companies don't make referral selling a priority and don't have a proven referral system to hardwire referral selling into the way their teams work. It's time to put referral selling into action.

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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 ? The Business Case for a Referral Program.

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Alice Heiman

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Account-based selling or marketing are both big buzz words in the sales industry. My friend Joanne Black and I were discussing this resurgence , and we both agree that getting a referral is the best way to start a sale. When sales leaders combine a proven referral program with account-based selling, they can drive enormous growth.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. It’s not intuitive, then, that these two functions often exist in silos, each having their own systems and processes.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In this Expert Insight Interview, Alex Goldfayn discusses a five-minute selling system. But if you think of five minutes as a system that you use every day for selling then the sales growth starts to make more sense. The power of this system is in its repetitiveness. And now, imagine 10 people or more doing this system.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 27, 2015

In the meantime, learn more about referral selling in this month’s posts: Don’t Confuse “Target Market” with “Ideal Client” It’s not marketing’s job to identify and nurture your ideal clients, or to convert them into qualified prospects. Your marketing colleagues can certainly help. That’s just the symptom.

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Close.io

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Want more, higher quality customers with a lot less effort than it takes to do cold outbound sales or inbound marketing? Use this simple referral sales system to grow your business starting today. While everyone nods their head in agreement when I say this, very few companies do referral sales effectively. Yes, they are.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Account-based selling is, however, an extremely effective way to sell, especially when it’s partnered with a robust referral program. Getting referrals is the #1 way for prospecting into named accounts and then expanding to other areas of a client company. It’s much simpler to get to decision-makers with qualified referrals.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 20, 2015

Teaser: The business case for referrals is clear. Yet, 95 percent of organizations don't have a written referral-selling strategy, written weekly referral goals, referral-selling skills training or a disciplined system to track and measure results. The business case for referrals is clear. read more'

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