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Why don’t you roll the dice and ask for referrals anyway?

by Tony Vidler On some things you just have to roll the dice and take your chances in life. Asking someone for a date….getting on a plane…or asking for referrals. It doesn’t always work out of course, but as a great hockey player once said: “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” […]

Get More Referrals With Repetition

by Tony Vidler Getting more referrals is a bit of a Holy Grail for most advisers. Referrals are gold and we all know that, yet it seems so hard for so many professionals to create consistent and constant referral business. We know that referrals remain the most powerful marketing despite the plethora of advertising and […]

Does Face-to-Face Time Fuel Referrals Really?

by Tony Vidler Virtual meetings are efficient, but if there is one thing that can help any professional fuel referrals it is face-to-face time with clients and influencers. Actual getting-together-with those other humans more often tends to lead to better or deeper relationships, and more opportunities to be positioned for referrals and recommendations. […]

The Gordian Knot of Getting Referral Business

by Tony Vidler Getting referral business is hard…but oddly enough it is also easy. Lots of advisers say they get all their new business from referral, but when you dig into things it seems that actually they don’t get a lot of referrals. The ones they get are great, but they don’t get loads […]

Dropping the “Who Do You Know” bomb is dumb.

by Tony Vidler One of the time-tested techniques of sales is to obtain referrals by dropping a “who do you know” bomb on them…and it is dumb. It has never actually worked all that well really, and it works even less well today. Adding an extra word in there doesn’t make it […]

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