Our top eight ways to ask for a referral

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Matt Anderson, author of Fearless Referrals, lists the eight things it takes to get clients to refer you to their friends and family.

If getting plenty of referrals was really that easy, then everyone would be doing it. So what does it take? If you are not getting the quality and amount of referrals you want, be brutally honest with yourself and look carefully at what you need to address. 1. Open Be open to learning, coaching and changing. Most people consider themselves to be quite coachable, but the truth is many of us are not that open to doing things differently. This is partly because sometimes it means we have to admit that we are not very good at something or that part of our business is weak or that – heav...

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