4 Reasons To Look Beyond Referrals For New Business
Referrals are often an agency’s best friend when it comes to driving new business, but here are 4 reasons why you need to look beyond referrals for new business:
1. Referrals aren’t necessarily the right type of client.
2. Referrals are not a consistent and scalable source of new business.
3. If you’re a small-mid sized agency, larger agencies are going after what they didn’t use to.
4. Agencies continue to get more aggressive when it comes to new business
4 Reasons To Look Beyond Referrals For New Business
1. Referrals aren’t necessarily the right type of client.
For several reasons this could be true (wrong fit, too small, no budget), and your team could end up spending time on the wrong types of work.
2. Referrals are not a consistent and scalable source of new business.
Just as your agency experiences certain lulls given the nature of your clients’ businesses, referrals function in the same way.
3. If you’re a small-mid sized agency, larger agencies are going after what they didn’t use to.
It’s a trend that’s gained momentum, which means those referrals you’re relying on have a better chance of slowing, or drying up altogether
4. Agencies continue to get more aggressive when it comes to new business
In our own survey reports, 86% of respondents say they’re getting more aggressive in their outbound and inbound activity.
(Whether or not they actually do-we’ll see.) :)
Referrals must be part of your new business strategy, but as we mentioned in the beginning of this post, they can’t be your only source of new business.
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