No More Cold Calling

JULY 20, 2018

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. The web is replete with articles and webcasts that tell people to just go ask for referrals, like it’s common sense or something. Dead silence.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 5, 2018

It’s more complex, and despite all the tech tools at our disposal, prospecting certainly hasn’t gotten any easier. Just getting prospects to return calls is hard enough. They’re bombarded with cold calls, cold emails, and pitches on social media. By getting referrals. Sales: Referral Selling by Joanne Black.

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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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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. I was too distracted with other activities like social media, emails, writing articles, watching football, and yes, sometimes, Facebook.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 3, 2020

They take an internal focus, instead of recognizing that lead generation—referral lead generation in particular—is their ticket to the C-Suite. (Or Granted, it will be more difficult to find new prospects or even to get clients to take (virtual) meetings. Well, here it is … Commit to Building Your Referral Business.

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No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Two colleagues complained they were so involved in their work, they didn’t have time to prospect. Why didn’t he think to ask for referrals? People are so focused on their projects, and they don’t make time to prospect. If you’re heads-down on your projects and don’t prospect, you’ll have no pipeline when you surface.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

If you’re like most sales leaders, you’re tracking the wrong referral metrics and spinning your wheels. Craig had only one referral KPI, and it was the wrong one: the number of prospect meetings that his reps conducted. The Referral Metrics That Matter. So, guess how reps choose to spend their sales prospecting time?

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

How to connect beyond the click when asking for referrals. My client, Sue, identified a colleague on LinkedIn who knew her prospect, George—a high-profile, very senior buyer. She’d tried asking for referrals to George on LinkedIn, but she felt their introductions lacked the emotion needed to convince George to meet with her.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 29, 2019

Don’t miss this opportunity for your own training in the Virtual Referral Selling Workshop Series beginning Tuesday, July 16. Enter the Referral Code Save300. In the meantime, here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month: How to Ask for Referrals: A Comprehensive Guide.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 7, 2018

Despite the fact that most companies have marketing automation solutions, targeted outreach by SDRs, and intense social media strategies, account execs still aren’t making quota. And how can a B2B referral program drive up those numbers? You put a referral program in place that ensures reps have the skills to ask for referrals.

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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?! 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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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 30, 2018

Referrals are HOT, HOT, HOT! There’s no such thing as a warm anything in sales—an email, phone call, social media outreach, or even a knock on the door. Unless your prospect knows who you are and expects to hear from you, you might as well step into a freezer. Dialing for dollars or getting referrals? Stop rationalizing.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Finally, after two decades of working with CROs, sales VPs, and CEOs on referral selling, the conversation has shifted. Clients now ask: “How do I create a referral culture?”. That says it all, and that’s the goal of a referral culture. My referral course launched on LinkedIn Learning , so it’s accessible to everyone.

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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%. If you want to secure valuable partnerships to generate referrals, you have to take a strategic approach.

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Referrals Company Scale Case Study 177

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

JANUARY 31, 2019

Continue cold calling and harassing people with cold emails and cold social media messages. Spend your sales time making 18 or more dials to cold prospects, only 1 percent of whom will call you back. 5 Reasons Your Team Doesn’t Know How to Get Referrals. Therefore, it’s, even more, intimidating for them to ask for referrals.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 25, 2023

Referrals help you stand out in a sea of B2B sellers. Despite the fact that most companies have marketing automation solutions, targeted outreach by SDRs, and intense social media strategies, B2B salespeople are still struggling to win and retain customers. Why Does a Referral Program Ensure Trust? One IT provider from another?

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 7, 2016

He’s Cold Calling on Social Media. If he’d actually read my profile, he would know that buying lists goes against everything my business stands for, that my lead generation strategy is asking for referrals , and that my phone number is on my LinkedIn profile. Where’s the relationship? Where’s the connection?

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 1, 2018

Reps have KPIs for cold calling, sending emails, and making connections on social media. Sales leaders have forgotten about their most powerful prospecting tool to get leads without cold calling : referral selling. Plus, check out my blog posts from this month: How to Build Trust and Generate Leads with a Referral Program.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Stop cold calling on social media. Plus, check out this month’s blog posts from No More Cold Calling: The Best Referral Programs Start with a “Referral Culture”. For the first time ever, clients are asking me how to build a “referral culture.” Read “ The Best Referral Programs Start with a ‘Referral Culture.’”).

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Referrals Cold Calling Negotiation Social Media 159

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 29, 2019

Would you be surprised to learn that prospects want the same buying experience in their business lives as in their personal lives? What happens in B2B companies when a salesperson pitches strangers on social media , when customer service takes hours to respond, or when the solution didn’t work as promised? Referral sellers.

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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

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

JULY 13, 2021

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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Decision Maker Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Marketing Qualified Lead 401

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Every sales leader says their #1 prospecting challenge is getting leads in the pipe. Despite the fact that most companies have marketing automation solutions, targeted outreach by SDRs, and intense social media strategies, account execs are still missing quota en masse. None of us stands out during prospecting. Have We Met?

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For as long as there have been sales, there have been referrals. Today, of course, with the internet and social media, there are countless websites for greater reach. However, in B2B selling, referrals are more than positive reviews. With that, seeking and gaining referrals is not as easy as it sounds.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

For more on referral sales, check out my blog posts from this month: Why You Need to Make Time for Asking for Referrals. Is your team asking for referrals? Are you getting customer referrals? Or are you sticking with your current prospecting strategy—“personalized” marketing and social media blasts?

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 29, 2019

I need to listen to my own advice instead of getting distracted by my ever-burgeoning inbox, neverending social media conversations, and not-so-quick breaks to check Facebook. That might mean writing a proposal, researching prospects, following up with potential clients, attending networking events, or asking for referrals.

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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. Coincidentally, I met Tim on social media.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 29, 2018

Are you asking for referrals from every one of your clients? You sell a deal, handoff to the customer success or account management team, and move on to the next prospect. Learn more about referrals in my blog posts this month. Why Referrals Cut Through the Sales Prospecting Noise. By getting referrals.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 168

Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2019

In fact, 84% of B2B decision makers start the buying process with a referral ( source ). Today, we’re taking a deeper look at one of the most effective word-of-mouth marketing strategies: referral marketing. Keep reading and learn everything you need to know about referral marketing! What Is Referral Marketing?

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 19, 2014

If you’re asking strangers on social media for referrals, you’re like the guy at a networking event who shoves his card in people’s face and asks for theirs in return. Referrals Are Personal, You’re Not. And he thinks I’ll give him a referral? In social media, the people are the media.”.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 28, 2018

When I ask groups of salespeople, “Who wants to build referral skills and will agree to be accountable for results?”—not Why are they the only ones interested in building referral skills? So, the default communication for account based sales reps is either social media or cold emails. not every hand goes up. Amazing, really.

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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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Janek Performance Group

MAY 5, 2023

Referral selling utilizes recommendations from satisfied customers or a trusted network, often called a center of influence, to gain new clients. More than other avenues of prospecting, like cold calling, referrals start with a personal connection. For more on using referral selling successfully, listen to the episode below.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 29, 2020

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. Because prospecting has gotten incredibly complicated, even though it should be a no-brainer.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Then ramp up your prospecting activity by asking for referrals from those happy customers, and you’ll be well on your way to building a strong pipeline for Q1. Learn more about referral selling in this month’s blog posts from No More Cold Calling: 3 Referral Selling Skills All B2B Sales Reps Should Practice.

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