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Can you retain this customer?
Do you really look at this as a consideration when developing your marketing segments and the value you place on acquiring a certain type of customer? Most of us look at repeat and referral strategies across the board for every segment. Consider the segment or that type of customer that you acquire that always seems to give you the benefit of the doubt or refer business to you. Should you not be biased in how you allocate your resources to that segment?
Selling to the Old Brain – Three Ways to Increase Sales Results
Many salespeople have heard the phrase that selling is an art and a science. This phrase is moving beyond a cliché with research results from the world of neuroscience. The profession of sales is changing and sales professionals that desire a true competitive advantage know and apply the neuroscience behind how and why prospects make buying decisions. Astute salespeople sell to the old brain...
Top Five Ways of Becoming a Better Sales Coach
Sales Managers execute several roles and wear many hats: manager, trainer and coach. These multiple roles can create challenges for some sales managers. Where should they invest their time? Should it be in attending internal meetings? Analyzing reports? Training and coaching the sales team? If you are serious about hitting and exceeding your revenue goals for 2012, invest your time in training and coaching your sales team. (It makes analyzing reports a whole lot more fun when the numbers are in the black.)

Sales 2012: What Will You Choose?
It’s that time of the year when people set New Year’s resolutions and goals. Setting goals really boils down to making new and better choices. It’s as much about what you are going to start doing as it is about what you are going to stop doing. This tradition has been going on for years and most of the time it is just rhetoric and hope which eventually leads back to old comfortable behaviors and attitudes. Here’s three things to consider choosing if you are serious about making 2012 your best year in sales.

Do You Really Believe That?
The self help guru's are the best at teaching, "You are what you believe. Your thoughts determine your outcomes and actions. And what you think about most will manifest in your life." These guru's are right and many salespeople and sale managers still subscribing to old beliefs and ways of selling do not serve them well in the information age.

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Three Referral Strategies
The previous issue quoted from the book, Getting Business to Come to You . Here are " Three Referral Strategies " from the same book:
No Fear of Referrals
People are often worried about being put in an uncomfortable situation in which someone they just met is asking them for a business referral -- particularly if their new acquaintance is a salesman asking for a referral to one of their friends who could be a potential client.

Be Referable
We have all heard the old saying, "it's not what you know, it's who you know." Well, there is a lot to be said about that. Look back on the business you have won recently. How much of it came by referral from someone you know, versus a cold call to a prospect or an inquiry directly to you or through your website? Like many of the business people I meet, the majority of their business comes by referral.
7 Secrets to Creating Client Referrals
Ask the proprietor of a professional service firm where they get their business from and most will tell you that over 80% of their business comes from word-of-mouth referrals. What is astounding is that most professional firms do not have active referral strategies. Now while devoting 80% of your marketing budget to referrals is a bit far fetched there are seven killer strategies that don't cost the earth to boost your business.
Three Simple Referral Marketing Strategies
I personally know of several very successful small businesses that don’t spend a dime on advertising? Why? Because they have implemented a referral marketing program that automatically brings in more clients than they need. This article discusses three referral strategies that will help you do the same.
Referral Network Marketing
Referral network marketing might be one of the most underrated marketing strategies in business right now. In an age with twitter and Google Adwords, slick commercial campaigns and YouTube being the norm, people often forget about word of mouth and a simple business card. Having something tangible in someone’s hands has been replaced by “hey, check out my site.” I’m not saying this is a bad thing, far from it, but don’t neglect one tool because the others look so new. Even astronauts carry a hammer (it’s a nice one that cost the taxpayers $25,000, but it’s still a hammer). Referral network marketing is about branding yourself, branding your business, and having your current contacts make leads for you. In short, it’s about looking good enough that people will talk about you to others and spread the word about you and your service. In
How to start an avalanche of referrals
There is no better new customer than a referral from a happy customer. But most businesses don't have a plan in place to generate referrals. They simply take them as they come without giving much thought to how they might be able to create a steady stream of referral business. Before you can do that however, it's important to understand the following referral truth. Satisfied customers do not send referrals in droves. The referral avalanche comes from clients and customers who are enthusiastic, inspired and awed from their experience with you. Bottom line: Being good ain't good enough if you want tons of referrals. If you continue to simply meet your customer's expectations, your referral rate won't change. So what can you do to have your customer rave about you?

Are You Referral Worthy?
Referral business is the least expensive way to win new customers. In addition, it has the highest possible leverage and the best potential payoff. Most importantly, a prospect whose name you received through a referral is much more likely to listen to your pitch and less likely to seek out other sources to meet his or her needs. You come to them with a built in reference.

3 Expert Strategies to Prevent A Great Referral From Going Bad
In the course of my business, I routinely make referrals to other products and business service providers that I know or use regularly. However, referrals don't always go as I like. Try as you might, you can't control the results that your referrals have with the businesses to whom you make the referral. Here are 3 proven strategies that I use in my referral-making process that work for me 99% of the time:

The Four Habits of Highly Referable People
Dan Sullivan, Strategic Coach, referral, referral partners, referral habits, getting referrals, making referrals, giving referrals,

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