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Jul 4
Small Business Promotion Tip #3 - Partner With Other Businesses & Become Referral Partners
Networking is key to building effective industry linksnumber%203%20purple%20yellow%20button.png and relationships. Robin Jay discusses this in The Art Of The Business Lunch.

Complementary businesses such as hairdressers, cosmeticians, wedding planners, photographers and marriage celebrants may partner to

Geoff Kirkwood, a Brisbane, Australia based business consultant takes it one step further. Quoted in The Courier Mail, he says a group of complementary businesses need to become referral partners, being proactive in referring business to others in their referral group.

Rather than stumbling across people occasionally, it's working with someone you know who regularly will be talking to people you want to be talking to and vice versa.
He also advocates actually handing out the other person's business cards when discussing someone who could help your customer - great idea.

Customer Referrals
Of course, customer referrals are important too. Customer can sometimes be your best advocates and referral partners. As they say, you never know who knows who. 
  • What success have you found with refererals & referral partners for your business?

 


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