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Marketing

The Majority of Small-Business Owners Rely on Word-of-Mouth Referrals. Here Are 3 Ways to Get Them.

Is it in your control as a business owner to increase the number of referrals you receive on a monthly basis or is it luck of the draw?

By Dan Slagen

Marketing

Getting Referrals When You Can’t (or Don’t Want to) Offer Incentives for Them

By Shaun Buck

Building a Business

When This Company Stopped Selling Directly, Its Customer Base Increased by 700 Percent

By Lydia Belanger

Building a Business

Generate 189 Referred Customers in 90 Days or Less

By Shaun Buck

Marketing

You’re Guaranteed Tons of New Customers with this Killer Referral Program

Discover the secrets behind The Newsletter Pro's referral program that's sending customers to Las Vegas.

By Shaun Buck

Thought Leaders

How to Drive Customer Referrals (When You Aren’t Airbnb, Dropbox or Uber)

Build your business through customer referrals by leveraging these five tactics.

By Sujan Patel

Human Resources

5 Steps to Finding Stability as a Freelancer

Getting your first few clients starts the momentum you need.

By Mike Taylor

Marketing

The 5 Factors That Make Customer-Referral Programs Fail

All the referral program magic in the world won't help if your customers don't like your company enough to send their networks your way.

By Sujan Patel

Building a Business

5 Strategies for Hiring Seasonal Employees

The boys and girls of summer are looking for many attributes uniquely found in small business environments. Entrepreneurs should exploit their advantage over large firms to improve their workforce, short- and longterm.

By Chris Rush

Marketing

5 Referral Marketing Strategies for Professional Service Providers

Referrals are a great way to increase sales and clients. Here's how to get more of them.

By Jonathan Long

Marketing

25 Ways to Ask for a Referral Without Looking Desperate

Make it as easy and enjoyable as possible for your clients to let people know that you do good work.

By John Rampton

Human Resources

6 Overlooked Ways Small Companies Can Compete for Big Talent

Sure, you can't attract talent with salaries matching those of the tech giant down the street. But you may have something of value that tech giant will never have.

By Heather R. Huhman

Thought Leaders

The Secret Way Big Companies Hire Via Employee Referral

Secret No. 1 is culture: If a company is terrible to work for, employees won't wish it on their worst enemy -- let alone someone they like.

By Heather R. Huhman

Building a Business

How to Get and Use Testimonials, Referrals and Reviews

Remember: People do business with people they like and trust.

By Wendy Keller

Business Funding

Stop Selling to Your Network Group and Start Educating Them

The people you are looking to for referrals need to understand your product but pitching them to buy it is self-defeating.

By Ivan Misner

Building a Business

4 Ways to Train Employee-Referral Rock Stars

An employee referral rockstar is consistent and driven to find the best cultural fits for his or her employer's hiring team.

By Kes Thygesen

Building a Business

Leveraging Feedback and Referrals for Growth

Gathering and promoting feedback can lead to big wins.

By Heather Wied

Building a Business

4 Steps to Start Earning More Referrals (Infographic)

Referrals are a key method of sustainable growth.

By Andrew Gazdecki

Building a Business

2 Secrets to Maximum Referrals

There's more than one way to generate customer referrals. Here are 2 smart tips that can help increase your referral rate.

By Shaun Buck

Building a Business

This Is What You Need to Do to Find Awesome Talent Today

Have you thought about 'pipelining'? What about social sourcing?

By Andre Lavoie

Marketing

The No B.S. Guide to Retaining Customers and Getting More Referrals

Getting customers cost money, keeping customers makes money. Now there is a book that details what works and what doesn't to boost customer retention.

By Shaun Buck