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How to Prospect and Get Referrals
Blog / Prospecting / Jan 31, 2021 / Posted by James Muir / 1786

How to Prospect and Get Referrals

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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. In order to successfully prospect to clients, salespeople and sales managers have to learn new techniques and new tactics in order to grab the attention of consumers and turn them into your clients.

How Prospecting Has Changed

Prospecting has changed a lot in the last few years, and it continues to get harder and harder. One of the things that makes it so hard is that we are constantly being exposed to messages. Consumers are being hit with marketing overload. It’s estimated that the average person is exposed to 10,000 marketing and branding messages every single day, which has made people very defensive and skeptical. Customers have defenses up to protect their time that keeps salespeople from getting through to them. From a prospecting perspective, this means it is so important to be prepared.  When you do get a connection and do get through to a client. You have a very short window to get your message across once they let down their defenses.

Don’t Contribute To The Noise

Considering the amount of marketing overload, many business professionals are exploring new ways to try and get around the overstimulation in order to try and get their message across. Unfortunately, the most common solution is to try and do even more prospecting. Send out even more marketing and branding messages. This doesn’t really solve the problem, it just contributes to it.

Categories of Prospecting

One way to get through to potential prospects is to look at these areas that are high leverage.  Mostly neglected across all sales industries, even though they produce the best results. Considering these categories is a very potent way to break through the noise of the marketing overload. Actually reach and prospect to the people that you want to buy your product. The first category is the market that you are seeking out. Figure out what your most ideal client looks like, and prospect to them. Prospecting to a broad market means more noise. When you can prospect to a specific, tailored market, it becomes much easier to get your message out there.

The second category is messaging. What we say to a customer matters a lot. It’s important that we’re saying things that count and that resonate with who we’re talking to. The other category is medium or the channels that we use in order to get new prospects. There is a huge variety of different channels, like seminars, networking events, webinars, in-person prospecting, etc. It’s by far the most successful and most powerful medium for prospecting is referrals. As a channel, it completely slaughters every other channel by a substantial amount. Its conversion rate from lead to opportunity is astronomical. One of the best ways to prospect is to ask for referrals and ask your clients to recommend you.

About Author

James Muir is a keynote speaker and Best-Selling author of The Perfect Close: The Secret to Closing Sales that teaches a clear and simple approach to close more opportunities while remaining genuinely authentic. Those interested in learning a method of closing that is zero pressure, involves just two questions and is successful 95% of the time can reach him at PureMuir.com.

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Comments (3)

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Adewale Arobani commented...

”one of the best ways to prospect is through referrals” This for me is most important.However,we can also leverage on the power of social media to prospects to the critical mass of your target audience.
Such a great and handy tips.

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kayode Akinruli commented...

how to prospect is a key to successful prospecting and getting result. nice one

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Rocky Paacal commented...

Now days, things are changed, prospect making individual to understanding how thing are going, from past occasions through referrals, that can people to make measurement according to situations,

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