No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

I accepted his standard invitation, thinking he might be a good connection, and sent him a personal message, inviting him to contact me with any questions about referral selling. His response: “What is referral selling?” You certainly wouldn’t lead with a sales pitch before you even knew if the person would be a decent prospect.

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Referrals Cold Calling Lead Rank Lead Scoring 177

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 24, 2021

How to ask for referrals and other FAQs. After more than 25 years as an expert on referral sales, I’m still asked exactly the same referral selling questions today. In no particular order, here are the most common referral selling questions I hear … 1. How do I get over my reluctance to ask for referrals?

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 6, 2017

Think a referral system is easy? That’s why referral selling is the only prospecting strategy that ensures qualified lead generation. And it only works if you have a referral system in place to ensure sales reps ask for referrals every day. The business case for referral selling is loud and clear.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 16, 2020

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. Yep, most of us are lazy and lack discipline.

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Referrals Sales Management Hiring Scale 328

No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2021

On that note, take a look at what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling about relationship building and referral selling …. Unless you address the broken links in your prospecting system, your sales reps will continue to struggle with closing the deal. Is Asking for Referrals on Social Media Rude? Try This. “My

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 13, 2023

Learn more about the science (and art) of referral selling in my new webinar with Finlistics. It’s interesting how you meet people, and when you sell by referral, you meet a lot of interesting people. It was also the start of Finlistics’s relationship with referral selling. Referrals don’t always happen quite this quickly.

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Referrals Webinar Metrics Maximizer Networking 156

Sales 2.0

JULY 8, 2022

This post describes a framework that I have found over the last two decades can really change the math on prospecting. Humans, aka your prospects, don’t care about?your?problems Consider the following questions to help you get into your prospects’ shoes and see how you can serve them. Your prospect decides to do?

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Prospecting Outsourcing Services Cold Calling Hiring 370

No More Cold Calling

MAY 14, 2020

I was struggling with a new way to position referral selling during a recession. You must ask them for referrals. You definitely need to ask for referrals to receive them at scale. When the market is on an upswing, our customers and prospects may be focused on a whole host of things. It’s not always about revenue growth.

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Prospecting Referrals Scale Sales Qualified Lead 428

No More Cold Calling

MARCH 30, 2023

” Referrals shouldn’t be the exception either. Just as importantly, I’ve learned how to turn a loss into a win, either by reflecting on the lessons learned with each loss or by asking outgoing clients for referrals. My prospects are on my side. I also know when I have earned the right to ask those prospects for referrals.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

If you think referrals don’t scale, you’re just doing it wrong. Sales leaders often tell me that referral leads are their most qualified, most convertible leads. Then in the next breath, they tell me referral business doesn’t scale. Scaling a referral business is a series of steps that must be taken.

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Scale Referrals Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 313

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

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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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Social Media B2C 288

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. By getting referrals. And my new sales training courses on LinkedIn Learning and Lynda.com are your ticket to referral selling. Forget closing.

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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 didn’t focus on the referral business angle until I started working with my first client. I asked specific questions about referrals. The Answer: No.

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Referrals Cold Calling Survey Scale 291

Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 4, 2019

Align with a business that will deliver a gift of what they do at a reduced cost in exchange for the opportunity to make a sales call on your prospect or customer. These are your best prospects for an alliance. Talk to people who sell your prospect before your sale is possible. To generate new prospects. Are you worth it?

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Referrals Real Estate Lead Rank Lead Scoring 289

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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Jeffrey Gitomer

MARCH 5, 2019

The most coveted prize in selling besides a sale is a referral. Everyone tells you to get referrals, no one tells you what to do next. How do you maximize the selling power of this referral? Here are the preferred methods for a first meeting with a referral and customer in order of preference (and effectiveness).

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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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Referrals System Cold Calling Social Media 289

No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

This is the best time to build your referral network. Invite prospects and clients to come along with you. In the meantime, check out this month’s posts from No More Cold Calling: 4 Reasons You Shouldn’t Get the Referral on LinkedIn. This time, she arranged a call with her colleague to get the referral. What a difference!

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 1, 2020

She wanted to discuss having me speak to her team about referrals. Not only was she rude and disrespectful, but if she didn’t follow up with me, I wouldn’t trust her to follow up with my referrals. Referrals are very, very personal. Don’t tarnish your reputation, or the reputation of your referral sources.

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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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Referrals Scale Cold Calling Social Media 258

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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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

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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Sandler Training

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The referral generation process we are about to share with you can transform your month, your quarter, your year, and your career. It should be at or near the heart of your prospecting plan. Step 1: Pick Your Referrers. Practice it! Share it with your organization!

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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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Referrals Hotels Cold Calling Scale 176

Membrain

MAY 16, 2021

Gaining referrals can seem harder than cold calling. There are many salespeople who would rather talk with relative strangers in the form of prospects than to ask current clients for referrals. It’s something I’ve recently noticed. I know that I struggled with it previously in my career.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 7, 2018

And how can a B2B referral program drive up those numbers? They buy what your software does for them—how it saves time, decreases costs, engages customers, tracks referrals, etc. You put a referral program in place that ensures reps have the skills to ask for referrals. Why a Referral Program Ensures Trust.

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Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 276

RAIN Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Referrals are among the top ways sellers get leads and new business, but many struggle with generating them consistently. They don’t have a system in place for generating referrals. So when a prospect comes to us via this route, some of the work is already done for us.

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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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The Sales Hunter

MAY 12, 2019

I bet you love getting referrals, but do you love just as much giving them? I am a better salesperson when I am eager to give referrals, because I know I am helping others see and achieve what they didn’t think was possible. By doing so, you’re helping others but also getting yourself excited. Sales Motivation Blog.

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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

APRIL 30, 2020

In fact, they didn’t even need to talk to prospects, because they had great tech tools. The #1 Way to Land Top Prospects Now. They take an internal focus, instead of recognizing that lead generation—referral lead generation in particular—is their ticket to the C-Suite. The #1 Way to Land Top Prospects Now.”). Yep, wimpy.

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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

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 31, 2019

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. Ask most anybody for the secret to how to get referrals, and they’ll probably tell you the first step is to simply ask. Want to be like the arrogant car salesperson?

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 1, 2019

If you want to boost your sales pipeline for Q1, I have a simple “ask”: Check out my referral course on LinkedIn Learning. Sales reps tell me they like getting referrals, but they’re not comfortable asking, and they don’t know how to ask. Once they learn how, they vow to adopt a referral approach for 2020. I’d had it.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 30, 2018

Referrals are HOT, HOT, HOT! Unless your prospect knows who you are and expects to hear from you, you might as well step into a freezer. Just because someone you know is connected to your prospect, doesn’t mean they actually know each other. Dialing for dollars or getting referrals? Stop rationalizing.

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