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Reference Requests for Salespeople
For the first time in months, I was recently asked for references. No problem! But it got me thinking about who asks for references, why they ask for references and when they ask for references...and what salespeople do when they're asked for references, and whether those references lead to closed business. As I thought this through, quite surprisingly, my three largest personal clients - all multi-billion dollar corporations, never asked. Three medium sized companies - over $100 million - never asked. I am personally working with only a handful of smaller companies and only one of them asked. Those insights tie directly to why people ask for references:
Employment References Are So Important
Employment references are as important to the recruitment process now as they have always been, if not more so. The problem being they are now at times more difficult to receive than they were a few years ago.

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How well do you know your staff? Are they happy? Are they heading in the right direction, or is each one following his/her own agenda with no reference point?
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The “Documenting Bad Experiences For Future Reference Could Be A costly Mistake!
Creating a Vision
Three key questions to get you started Having a Reference Point An example from my own life

HOW TO GROW YOUR ONLINE SALES BY POSITION YOUR PRODUCT TO THE RELEVANT MARKET
A position is a reference point determined in terms of time and space. For example USA is positioned between Mexico to the south, Pacific Ocean to the west, Canada to the north and so forth. A position can be a rank or a qualification i.e. China is placed 3rd in the world economy after USA and Britain. In marketing we use position the same way; we use positioning to refer to product relative to other competing products in the market, i.e. product A is positioned to appeal to middle income group. Brand B is positioned to appeal to the go-getters. Positioning of products is a process and there are steps that are used to come up with a specific position for specific product. Positioning is therefore the process of putting a product in a location in reference to the competition and the entire market.
A Matter of Trust
Trust is the basis for all successful leaders and all successful relationships for that matter. You cannot buy trust, but it is free. Trust is priceless yet can be earned over time. Have you ever tried to request someone’s trust? Maybe it was a team member, customer or a colleague. You may have wanted a decision to be made in your favor. To overcome some initial disagreement and expedite the decision making process, you might resort to “Hey, just trust me!” That statement is worthless. Either the other party already trusted you based on your past actions or they did not trust you and your request won’t change that. Trust is not spoken, it is demonstrated. Trust cannot be requested, it must be earned.

Entrepreneurs Want To Write A Small Proposal or Quotation?
A proposal is a document written to outline work that will be done at a set price in response to receiving a request for proposal, or more formally a RFP (Request For Proposal), ITT (Invitation To Tender) or RFP (Request For Tender). A quotation is a less formal document that is a document that outlines the work to be done and a reasonably accurate price for its completion.

Retailing is Detailing – All about the Customer Loyalty Program
It is very common to receive an update request from the customer like “we have created a database of 500 customers and we want to introduce a loyalty program for them” The most common reply to this request is “Yes we have a CRM module and this is the update charges” Although the question is answered but it leaves many questions unanswered.
What\'s An Opinion, Anyway?
A client called me recently with what she said might sound like an odd request. "I need your 'opinion,'" she said, "and it has to be in writing. Can you do that? And what does that mean, anyway?" After reassuring her that it was not an odd request and that not only could I do it, I would, I gave her an explanation...
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