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This Might Change Your Business Forever

Name: This Might Change Your Business Forever
Uploaded: 2024-08-19T14:00:35+00:00
Duration: 37 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this concise business advice video, the speaker urges entrepreneurs to become obsessed with generating customer referrals. He explains that referral…

19 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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In this concise business advice video, the speaker urges entrepreneurs to become obsessed with generating customer referrals. He explains that referral customers purchase more frequently, spend higher prices, and are far more likely to refer additional customers, making them a free, high‑value acquisition channel. By contrasting a costly, low‑value customer with a free, high‑value referral customer, he argues that businesses should aim for referrals to account for roughly 30% of total revenue, regardless of company size. This referral‑driven growth compounds indefinitely, preventing the plateau that occurs when businesses rely on paid acquisition alone.

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You should be obsessed with getting referrals, and here's why. Referrals buy at higher percentages, at higher prices. They buy more often, they buy more times, and they're the most likely customer to, yes, refer you more customers. And so if you have two types of customers that you could potentially get, one that costs you a lot of money and does none of these things, and one that's free that does all of those things, which would you prefer? Well, obviously this one. And independent of how big your business gets, 30% of your business coming from referrals, no matter you're at $100 million or $100,000 a year, still grows your business by 30%. And when it's that big and it's still free, that's the type of stuff that compounds a business into infinity versus having one that plateaus because not enough people tell other people about it.