How to Build Your Business Through Client and Professional Referrals
- 1. ON TARGET How to Build Your Business Through Client and Professional Referrals Presentation by Marc Stein
- 2. ONTARGET Lower your business development costs Take Away Ensure that prospects, clients and peers think of you Instantly communicate your value in compelling terms Keep referrals rolling in Be a rainmaker without overt selling or marketing From This Presentation
- 3. ONTARGET People Could Not Care Less About You and Your Service People think of themselves… 63% of the time 73% of the time 83% of the time 93% of the time Source: Gateways Institute
- 4. ONTARGET IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU! Reality Check Number One
- 5. ONTARGET Ensure that Prospects, Clients and Peers Think of You… First! How to instantly communicate your value in compelling terms?
- 6. ONTARGET IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU!! Reality Check Number Two
- 7. ONTARGET Why Referrals Should Get Most of Your Attention? Referred prospects are… 3 times more likely 5 times more likely 7 times more likely 10 times more likely …to engage you than cold contacts. Source: American Marketing Association
- 8. ONTARGET Why Referrals Should Get Most of Your Attention? Prospects referred by a Trusted Advisor are… 25 times more likely 50 times more likely 75 times more likely 100 times more likely …to engage you than cold contacts. Source: American Marketing Association
- 9. ONTARGET How to Get Your Clients to Give You Referrals? Client referrals flow freely when you “earn the right.”
- 10. ONTARGET How to Get Trusted Advisors to Give You Referrals? Professions spell referrals t-r-u-s-t. The client comes first. Always attempt to make the referrer look like a hero.
- 11. ONTARGET IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU!!! Reality Check Number Three
- 12. ONTARGET How Much Should You Spend on Referral Marketing? Successful referral marketing can save… 25% of direct marketing expense 50% of direct marketing expense 75% of direct marketing expense 100% of direct marketing expense
- 13. ONTARGET Be the Best Commit to and provide exceptional service. Be Unreasonably Generous Look for opportunities to give referrals, share resources and help others achieve their goals. Get more by giving more away. Create a Buzz Word of mouth is the most credible of business development communications. On average, we take action 20-50% of the time. 90% of the world is influenced by the other 10% How to be a Rainmaker without Selling of Marketing?
- 14. ON TARGET Questions and Answers Marc Stein | www.linkedin.com/in/marcstein