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The Referral Engine
- Teaching Your Business to Market Itself
- Narrated by: John Jantsch
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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Summary
The small business guru behind Duct Tape Marketing shares his most valuable lesson: how to get your customers to do your best marketing for you.
The power of glitzy advertising and elaborate marketing campaigns is on the wane; word- of-mouth referrals are what drive business today. People trust the recommendation of a friend, family member, colleague, or even stranger with similar tastes over anything thrust at them by a faceless company.
Most business owners believe that whether customers refer them is entirely out of their hands. But science shows that people can't help recommending products and services to their friends - it's an instinct wired deep in the brain. And smart businesses can tap into that hardwired desire.
Marketing expert John Jantsch offers practical techniques for harnessing the power of referrals to ensure a steady flow of new customers. Some of Jantsch's strategies include:
- Talk with your customers, not at them. Thanks to social networking sites, companies of any size have the opportunity to engage with their customers on their home turf as never before-but the key is listening.
- The sales team is the most important part of your marketing team. Salespeople are the company's main link to customers, who are the main source of referrals. Getting them on board with your referral strategy is critical.
- Educate your customers. Referrals are only helpful if they're given to the right people. Educate your customers about whom they should be talking to.
The secret to generating referrals lies in understanding the "Customer Referral Cycle". Businesses can ensure a healthy referral cycle by moving customers and prospects along the path of Know, Like, Trust, Try, Buy, Repeat, and Refer. If everyone in an organization keeps this sequence in mind, Jantsch argues, your business will generate referrals like a well-oiled machine.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Clive
- 20-09-10
The referral engine turbo charged my brain
Searching for inspiration to hoof my business ahead of the competition i took this audio book on holiday and listened to it most days.Seeing how others have done something so well, and John gives lots of examples, is not always easy to translate to your own set of circumstances.
But persistence pays, and a week after coming back i had that breakthrough idea that i am now buzzing about.
The books brilliant and it will make you brilliant too.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Andrew
- 04-01-11
6 Hours 49 Minutes of My Life
That was 6 hours and 49 minutes of my life that I won't get back. And it wasn't a valuable use of my time.
This book has every appearance of being written with the sole purpose of making money. Nothing wrong with that in itself, but it delivers no value. Most of the book is taken up with stating the obvious - that you have to keep your customers happy by looking after them to stand any chance of getting referrals. The 'advice' was regurgitated from other sources (Brian Tracy amongst others) and the references are already well known.
I am planning a referral system for our customers as they are all so enthusiastic about the service that we deliver and was hoping that this book would be a kind of manual on how to do it. I was really dissapointed.
My advice - don't waste your money on this book.
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- Mr. Ian Kenyon
- 10-11-21
Sorry but maybe I gave up too soon
his book does not start well and lost my interest very quickly. I wanted someone to start telling me how to build referral schemes that work. What the author seems to do too much of is grab soundbites from other people and just quote them back to the reader.
I really hoped for something more. Perhaps it gets better beyond chapter 3 but I will never find out
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- James B
- 14-03-24
Thanks god that’s over
Considering it’s a book on referrals… you’d think there was ups be more referral strategies. Instead he gives advice on lots of different areas that he seems to have very little experience on and I’d be gobsmacked if he actually gets result in. My advice, read Jay Abraham’s “93 referral strategies” instead. And study the greats (Jay Abraham, Dan Kennedy, David Ogilvy, Gary Halbert etc). This author does not sit at the same table as these guys.
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