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The Irrefutable Referral Business Case

No More Cold Calling

How asking for referrals will drive your revenue in 2024 How many people should you ask for referrals to get five new clients? In my experience, at least half the people you ask for referrals will introduce you to your ideal prospect. So the ratio of referral requests to new clients is roughly four to one (4:1).

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Maximizing Referrals: Strategies for Turning Your Network Into a Powerful Revenue Generator

No More Cold Calling

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. This was going a little above the speed limit.

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Celebrating 25 Years in Referrals: My Story

No More Cold Calling

Why I made referral selling my life’s work. My first client was an outplacement firm (and a referral). Would you be willing to be a referral to this company?” Then I asked the question I still ask every single client today: Have you asked every one of your clients for a referral ? The year was 1996. That got me thinking.

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Stop Neglecting Your Most Valuable Sales Channel [Q2 Referral Selling Insights]

No More Cold Calling

For nearly three decades, my sole focus has been helping growing companies leverage referrals to drive revenue. Everyone agrees that referrals are the best source of new business. Referrals have an average conversion rate of more than 50 percent (most say it’s closer to 70 percent) and an increased ratio of qualified opportunities.

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Best Practices for Engaging Your Go-To-Market Sales Teams

Speaker: Ruth Stevens, President of eMarketing Strategy

The next step in the process is to provide leverage to sales as they engage with the prospect, close the deal, and then nurture and deepen the customer relationship. During this webinar, you’ll learn: The nature of the buying group and how to reach the individual members. You don't want to miss out on this amazing webinar!

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How to Prospect and Get Referrals

Pipeliner

Prospecting often makes businesspeople break out in a cold sweat. It has been harder than ever in recent years to get referrals and prospects to potential customers. How Prospecting Has Changed. Prospecting has changed a lot in the last few years, and it continues to get harder and harder.

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What Are Your Pandemic Priorities? [April Referral Selling Insights]

No More Cold Calling

Watch the webinar, take notes, and let me know one action you will take … immediately. 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. The #1 Way to Land Top Prospects Now.”). Those who take action now, will win! Sales Pipeline Dried Up?

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