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Roadmap to Referrals — 418 episodes

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Ep #417: Get More Clients

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Ep #416: Leveling Up Your Referral Quality

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Ep #415: What Referrals Really Gave Me

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Ep #414: How Much of Your Business Should Come from Referrals?

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Ep #413: Building a Client Acquisition Engine with Referrals

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Ep #412: How To Do a 7 Minute Referral Quarterly Review

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Ep #411: Referrals Now & Forever

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Ep #410: Turn Clients and Event Organizers into Your Best Promoters

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Ep #409: If I Can't "Train" My Referral Sources, What Do I Do?

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Ep #408: How Do I Use Networking to Get More Referrals?

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Ep #407: I Need More People Referring Me!

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Ep #406: Secret to Referral Growth = Just Get Started

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Ep #405: Can you Answer this Referral Question?

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Ep #404: A Decade + of Referral Growth & Success

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Ep #403: Three Do's of Generating Referrals

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Ep #402: Three Don'ts of Generating Referrals

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Ep #401: Importance of Referral Sources

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Ep #400: The 5 Referral Metrics You Must Track

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Ep #399: How Your Founder Type Influences the Business You Build

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Ep #398: Must Have Referral Strategies for 2026

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Ep #397: How to Calculate Referrals for 2026

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Ep #396: Making Sense of Your Referral Data

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Ep #395: How to Accelerate Your Referral Growth

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Ep #394: Most Listened to Episode of All Time

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Ep #393: Most Listened to Episode of 2025

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Ep #392: Horizon Destination Planning

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Ep #391: Building a Sustainable Pipeline with Referrals… Without Asking For Them

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Ep #390: Don't End the Year Without Doing This!

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Ep #389: The Gratitude Effect

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Ep #388: Authors Talking Shop

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Ep #387: The Referable Client Experience: Tackling Part 3

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Ep #386: The Referable Client Experience: Tackling Part 2

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Ep #385: The Referable Client Experience: Tackling Part 1

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Ep #384: It's Live: The Referable Client Experience Book

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Ep #383: A Conversation with My Publisher

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Ep #382: Using Referrals to Launch a Business

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Ep #381: Referrals and ROI

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Ep #380: Referral Q&A

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Ep #379: Consultants & Referrals

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Ep #378: Is Your Referral Generation Lacking?

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Ep #377: When You Identify Your "Who"

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Ep #376: The Referral Opportunity You're Overlooking

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Ep #375: Why Now is the Best Time

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Ep #374: The Referral Why

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Ep #373: Founder-Led Companies Need a Referral Strategy

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Ep #372: Generating Referrals Naturally

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Ep #371: Interior Designers, Relationships and Referrals

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Ep #370: Building Authentic Relationships for Business Growth

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Ep #369: Overcoming the Myths of Referrals Without Asking

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Ep #368: Six Layers of a Referral Strategy for an Interior Design Business

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Ep #367: How Real Estate Agents Generate Referrals Without Asking

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Ep #366: The 10 Golden Rules for Getting Referrals Without Even Asking

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Ep #365: Are You Ready for the Podcast Takeover?

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Ep #364: The Trust Recession

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Ep #363: The Referral Snowball Effect

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Ep #362: 10 Non-Negotiables of Successful Entrepreneurs

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Ep #361: "Why won't my team members just do it…" (The Scenario Series)

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Ep #360: "I want to reach out but…" (The Scenario Series)

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Ep #359: "Why Don't I Get This From Clients…" (The Scenario Series)

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Ep #358: A Realtor's Referral Hot Seat

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Ep #357: An Attorney's Referral Hot Seat

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Ep #356: 5 Questions You Should be Asking About Referrals

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Ep #355: Quick Quarterly Referral Review

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Ep #354: Power of Communication & Referrals

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Ep #353: The Referral Must Dos (Part 3)

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Ep #352: The Referral Must Dos (Part 2)

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Ep #351: The Referral Must Dos (Part 1)

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Ep #350: 350 Episodes & Counting

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Ep #349: The Referral Must Knows (Part 3)

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Ep #348: The Referral Must Knows (Part 2)

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Ep #347: The Referral Must Knows (Part 1)

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Ep #346: Your Referral KPIs

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Ep #345: Deep Dive on Your Referral Reality

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Ep #344: 4 Referral Tasks to Do Now

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Ep #343: How Do You Start the Year?

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Ep #342: The Power of Referrals

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Ep #341: Mystery Referral Episode

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Ep #340: Referral Q&A

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Ep #339: Year-End Referral Reflection

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Ep #338: Q4 Referral Plan (Step 3)

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Ep #337: Designing Great Referrals

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Ep #336: Now and Then (Part 2)

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Ep #335: Now and Then

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Ep #334: Q4 Referral Plan (Step 2)

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Ep #333: Saving Time with Referrals

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Ep #332: Upstream vs Downstream Referrals

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Ep #331: Introverts, Extroverts and Referrals

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Ep #330: Referral Q&A

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Ep #329: Q4 Referral Plan

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Ep #328: How to Home Edit Your Referrals

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Ep #327: Boundaries = Freedom

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Ep #326: Why Your Referral Efforts Aren't Working

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Ep #325: In Need of a Reset?

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Ep #324: Debunking Referral Surveys

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Ep #323: Managing Predictability with Referrals

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Ep #322: Receiving Referrals from Around the World

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Ep #321: What Impacts How Fast You'll Receive Referrals

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Ep #320: Referral Q&A

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Ep #319: Summer Series Wrap Up

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Ep #318: How I Solved…Running a Business Living in Two Countries

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Ep #317: How I Solved…Hiring Virtual Help

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Ep #316: How I Solved…Becoming & Staying Profitable

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Ep #315: How I Solved…Picking a Niche

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Ep #314: How I Solved…Making Videos for Marketing

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Ep #313: How I Solved…Managing Tasks

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Ep #312: How I Solved…Summer Series Overview

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Ep #311: Breaking Down the Science of Referrals

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Ep #310: Referral Q&A

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Ep #309: Referrals and Business Besties

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Ep #308: Next Level Mistakes with Referrals

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Ep #307: Questions You Should Be Asking

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Ep #306: What Potential Referral Sources Need You to Know

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Ep #305: Living Your Why Better Through Referrals

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Ep #304: How to Do a Referral Quarterly Review

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Ep #303: The BEST Referral Thank You Card

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Ep #302: Rookie Mistakes With Referrals

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Ep #301: Swimming Against the Stream with Referrals

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Ep #300: Let's Celebrate Hitting Episode 300!

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Ep #299: The Tension Between Referrals and Control

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Ep #298: Growing Through Referrals

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Ep #297: Referral Experience vs Client Experience

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Ep #296: Leveraging Referrals in Unique Ways

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Ep #295: Must Have Referral Strategies This Year

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Ep #294: No Regrets Business Ownership

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Ep #293: Strategic Alignment for a Referral Explosion

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Ep #292: Calculate Your 2024 Referral Goals (Part 2)

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Ep #291: Calculate Your 2024 Referral Goals (Part 1)

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Ep #290: Gaining Clarity with Your 2024 Referral Goals

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Ep #289: Life Proof Your Business

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Ep #288: End of Year Referral Reflections

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Ep #287: Reverse Goal Setting

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Ep #286: Avoiding Referral Blind Spots

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Ep #285: Industry Partner or Referral Source?

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Ep #284: What People Get Wrong About Referrals

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Ep #283: Dealing With *This* Referral Frustration

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Ep #282: Growing Through Referrals… An Interior Designer's Story

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Ep #281: Automation, Personalization and Referrals

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Ep #280: Referral Q&A

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Ep #279: If an Attorney Can Do It

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Ep #278: One Month Can Change Everything

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Ep #277: If a CPA Can Do It…

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Ep #276: If I Had No Referral Sources

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Ep #275: Tech Start Up Applications to Improve Referrals

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Ep #274: How We Prep Inside the BRB Coaching Program

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Ep #273: My Leads Framework

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Ep #272: When to be a Scuba Diver vs Astronaut

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Ep #271: 3 Referral Tactics to Implement Immediately

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Ep #270: Referral Q&A

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Ep #269: Making Tracking Sexy Again

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Ep #268: Side Effects of Inconsistent Referrals

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Ep #267: Biz Owner Mindset: Working from Rest

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Ep #266: Biz Owner Mindset: Cultivating Happiness

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Ep #265: Biz Owner Mindset: Mental Health Protection

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Ep #264: Biz Owner Mindset: Habit Formation

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Ep #263: Biz Owner Mindset: Belief Formation

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Ep #262: Biz Owner Mindset: Executive State

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Ep #261: Biz Owner Mindset

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Ep #260: Referral Q&A

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Ep #259: When the Referral Situation Drives the Tactics

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Ep #258: Understanding Power Referral Sources

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Ep #257: Do This, Not That For Referrals

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Ep #256: Your Referral Ecosystem

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Ep #255: A Peek Inside a Referable Business Part 4

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Ep #254: A Peek Inside a Referable Business Part 3

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Ep #253: A Peek Inside a Referable Business Part 2

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Ep #252: A Peek Inside a Referable Business Part 1

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Ep #251: Business is Never a Straight Line

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Ep #250: 10 Questions with the Man Who Knows Me Best

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Ep #249: The Roots of Your Referral Relationships

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Ep #248: The Guiding Principles of Referrals

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Ep #247: Can Referrals & Affiliates Co-Exist?

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Ep #246: Applying KISS to Referrals

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Ep #245: Which Are You? Pinball or Bowling Ball

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Ep #244: What AI Gets Wrong About Referrals

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Ep #243: Referral Delegation in Action

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Ep #242: What Can You Delegate with Referrals?

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Ep #241: Noticing Referral Moments

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Ep #240: Referral Q&A

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Ep #239: Are Your Referrals Happy Accidents?

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Ep #238: Must Have Referral Strategies

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Ep #237: My Top Business Lessons from This Year

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Ep #236: Year End Referral Reflection

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Ep #235: Reversing Your Way Forward (Part 2)

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Ep #234: Reversing Your Way Forward (Part 1)

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Ep #233: Being Referred on Social Media?

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Ep #232: Business Owners Guide to Saying No

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Ep #231: Do These 3 Things for Your Referral Sources

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Ep #230: Referral Q&A Episode

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Ep #229: The Best Way to Give a Referral

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Ep #228: Slow & Steady Wins the Race

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Ep #227: The Metrics that Should Define Your Referrals

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Ep #226: My Super Complicated Referral Success Formula

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Ep #225: Defining Core Values

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Ep #224: Top 3 Goals of Referrals

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Ep #223: Referrals and Repeat Clients

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Ep #222: Why I Won't Give You This Answer

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Ep #221: Successful Referral Building

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Ep #220: Business Development Series: Q&A

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Ep #219: Biz Development Series: Experts Weigh In

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Ep #218: Business Development Series: Vitamin or Medicine?

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Ep #217: Business Development Series: Nurturing Prospects

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Ep #216: Business Development Series: Closing into Clients

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Ep #215: Business Development Series: The Buyer's Journey

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Ep #214: Business Development Series - Figuring Out Your Sources

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Ep #213: Business Development Series: Message

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Ep #212: Business Development Series: The Overview

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Ep #211: The Science Behind Generating Referrals Naturally

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Ep #210: Q&A Episode

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Ep #209: Client Interview: Tripling Your Business

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Ep #208: Common Mistakes of Referral Ninja Beginners

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Ep #207: What Referral-Proofing Looks Like

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Ep #206: Building Your Own Networking Group

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Ep #205: What You Can (& Should) Ask For

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Ep #204: Client Interview: Measuring Metrics

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Ep #203: Breaking Down Your Business Communities

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Ep #202: The Communities of Your Business

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Ep #201: A Business Intersection

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Ep #200: Celebrating 200 Episodes

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Ep #199: Your #1 Trap of Growing a Business

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Ep #198: 5 Types of Business Owners

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Ep #197: 4 Quads of Business

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Ep #196: Speed of Starting Small

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Ep #195: Putting Your "Busyness" in Perspective

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Ep #194: Business Protection and Referral Success

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Ep #193: The Conundrum: Sharing vs. Asking

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Ep #192: The Over-Use of "Referrals" in Marketing

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Ep #191: What You Control with Referrals

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Ep #190: Q&A Episode

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#189: A Look at Building a Referable Business

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#188: Why Are You Referred?

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#187: Must Have Referral Strategies for this Year

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#186: Calculating Your 2022 Referral Explosion

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#185: 3x5 Life

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#184: Choosing the Right Type of Support for Your Goals

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#183: Finishing Strategy

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#182: The Reverse Goal Setting Process

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#181: Dirty Little Secrets of Goals

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#180: Q&A Episode

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#179: Ending the Year Referral Stronger

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#178: Secret #5 of the 5 Secret Weapons of Referrals Without Asking

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#177: Secret #4 of the 5 Secret Weapons of Referrals Without Asking

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#176: Secret #3 of 5 Secret Weapons of Referrals Without Asking

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#175: Secret #2 of the 5 Secret Weapons of Referrals Without Asking

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#174: 5 Secret Weapons of Referrals Without Asking

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#173: Two Productivity Musts for Small Business Owners

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#172: Taking Control of Referrals: One Attorney's Journey

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#171: Breaking Down Layer #6 of Your Referral Strategy

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#170: Q&A Episode about Referrals

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#169: Lead Gen ROI Pulse Check

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#168: Taking Control of Referrals: One Realtor's Journey

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#167: What Referrals Hide

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#166: Referral Lessons from a Failed Cantaloupe Garden

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#165: Receiving Referrals from Your Client Experience

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#164: Unpacking Your Client Experience

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#163: An Engagement Tool for Your Client Experience

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#162: Leveraging the Alumni Client Stage

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#161: In Action: Active Client Stage

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#160: Client Experience Q&A

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#159: Mastering the Active Client Stage

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#158: In Action: A New Client Stage

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#157: Nailing the New Client Stage

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#156: Three Stages of the CX

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#155: Nuts & Bolts of the CX

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#154: This Should Drive Your Client Experience

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#153: Bottom Line Impact of the Client Experience

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#152: Customer Service Does Not Equal Client Experience

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#151: Being Referable

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#150: Celebrating 150 Episodes

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#149: Share and Tell

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#148: Breaking Down Layer #5 of Your Referral Strategy

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#147: Breaking Down Layers #3 & #4 of Your Referral Strategy

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#146: The Who, What, When, Why & How of Referrals

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#145: Do You Agree or Disagree?

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#144: What's Wrong Today with the Collective Referral Mindset

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#143: This Bears Repeating

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#142: When the Hard Work Pays Off

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#141: Breaking Down Layer #2 of Your Referral Strategy

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#140: Q&A: How Referrals Fared in 2020

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#139: A Referral Strategy in Action

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#138: Breaking Down Layer #1 of Your Referral Strategy

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#137: Clarifying the WHO

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#136: Calculating Your 2021 Referral Explosion

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#135: This Number Matters Most for More Referrals

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#134: Biz Lessons Learned from the Craziest Year

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#133: The Future Always Belongs to Finishers

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#132: Goal Crushers in Action

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#131: Your Goals Finishing Strategy

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#130: Special Q&A on Goals

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#129: Setting Your One Year Plan

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#128: Calculating Your 3 Year Milestones

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#127: Defining Your 5 Year Vision

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#126: Two Ways to Reflect

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#125: Your Referral Strategy: A Layered Approach

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#124: Deep Dive into Referrals: Professional Services

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#123: Deep Dive into Referrals: Financial

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#122: Deep Dive into Referrals - Real Estate Part 2

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#121: Deep Dive into Referrals - Real Estate

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#120: Q&A Show: Burning Questions from our Listeners

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#119: Making it Easy to Gather Testimonials

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#118: Removing "Stranger Danger" with Referrals

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#117: Working While Schooling... Helping You Survive

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#116: Working While Schooling... Helping Kids Thrive

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#115: Demystifying the CRM

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#114: Designing Your Perfect Office Space

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#113: Referral No-No #7

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#112: Referral No-No #6

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#111: Referral No-No #5

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#110: Referral No-No Q&A

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#109: Referral No-No #4

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#108: Referral No-No #3

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#107: Referral No-No #2

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#106: Referral No No #1

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#105: Your Goals & the Back Half of 2020

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#104: Goals Reset? Maybe. Maybe Not. (Part 2)

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#103: Goals Reset? Maybe. Maybe Not.

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#102: Leveraging a VA in Your Business

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#101: 4 Quads of Business

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#100: Our 100th Show Surprise

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#099: Hard Conversations With Yourself

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#098: Your Enneagram # and Your Business

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#097: Leads, Networking, Referral Groups... Oh My!

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#096: A Tool to Support Referrals, Prospects & Clients

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#095: Three Things to Do Now for Your Referral Sources

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#094: Who's In Your Boat?

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#093: Staying Focused During Times of Adversity

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Episode: Bonus #001

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#092: Digging In to Your Referral Sources (Part Three)

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#091: Digging In to Your Referral Sources (Part Two)

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#090: Burning Questions From Our Listeners

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#089: Digging In to Your Referral Sources (Part One)

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#088: When Referral Generation Isn't Working

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#087: What's Holding Your Referrals Back

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#086: Applying Google Knowledge to Referrals

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#085: Learning from a Referral Ninja Master

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#084: 3 Ways to Sink Your Referrals

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#083: Platinum Principles of Referral Generation

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#082: What Would 100 Referrals Mean to Your Business

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#081: Your One Must

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#080: Q&A Show: Burning Questions from Our Listeners

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#079: The Future Belongs to Finishers

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#078: How to Finish What You Start

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#077: Here's to the Goals that Haunt Us

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#076: Setting Your One Year Plan

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#075: Calculating Your 3 Year Milestones

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#074: Defining Your 5 Year Vision

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#073: Coasting or Stressing into Year End?

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#072: Favorite Business Lessons Learned

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#071: The Special Anniversary

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#070: Burning Questions from Our Listeners

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#069: Right Biz Structure for Referral Success

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#068: Referral-Proof Your Business

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#067: Lies We Believe About Referrals, Part 4: Lack of Control

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#066: Lies We Believe About Referrals, Part Three: Incentivize

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#065: The Lies We Believe About Referrals, Part Two: Ask or Else

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#064: The Lies We Believe About Referrals, Part One: Time Suck

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#063: Calculating Your Referral Explosion Number

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#062: Beyond the Thank You Note

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#061: Growing Your Tribe with Pat Flynn

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#060: Q&A With My Better Half

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#059: Behind the Scenes of the GBR Program Overhaul

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#058: The Start of a Referral Ninja Master Journey

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#057: 6 Ways to Marie Kondo Your Referrals

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#056: Learning From Referral Ninja Masters

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#055: The Intersection of Personality and Referrals

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#054: The Difference Between Your CX and RX

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#053: On the Spot Coaching

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#052: Nailing Your Thank You Card

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#051: Referral Rookie Mistakes

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#050: Burning Questions From Our Listeners

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#049: Referral Generating Plans on a Shoestring Budget

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#048: Your Process is Key to Consistent Referrals

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#047: Raising Your Rates with Ryan Laughlin

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#046: How to Turn Networking into Smart Networking

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#045: Uncovering Valuable Data in Your Business

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#044: Master Your Profit with Michele Williams

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#043: On the Spot Coaching Segment

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#042: Asking for the Close with Nikki Rausch

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#041: 5 Times You Can Ask (Just Never for Referrals)

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#040: Burning Questions from our Listeners

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#039: The Magic of Small Plans

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#038: Those First Two Years in Business

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#037: Backstage vs. Frontstage

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#036: Guiding Principles of Referrals

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#035: How to Give a Proper Referral

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#034: 'On the Spot' Coaching - Finding Referral Gaps

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#033: Stop Sending "Referral" Emails Like This

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#032: What is a Referral Ninja Master

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#031: The Magic of Accountability

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#030: Burning Questions From Our Listeners

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#029: What's Your "Burn the Boats" Moment in 2019?

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#028: End of Year Surprise from the Roadmap to Grow Your Business Podcast

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#027: Business Lessons Learned From the Trenches

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#026: 3 Ways to Up-Level Your Client Experience Next Year

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#025: 3 Musts for a Powerful but Simple Client Experience

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#024: Is this one thing holding back your referrals?

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#023: How Are You Celebrating Your Referral Sources This Time of Year

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#022: Power of Reverse Goal Setting

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#021: Thanksgiving Thoughts About Your Referral Sources

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#020: Burning Questions From Our Listeners

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#019: How Your Promo Swag is Killing Your Referral Strategy

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#018: The Moment(s) It All Changed

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#017: Identify Your Who...And the Power Behind It

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#016: Saving Lost Referrals

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#015: 5 Steps to Generate Referrals

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#014: Bumpy Road of Entrepreneurship with Neil Tyra

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#013: How I Stopped Selling & Dramatically Grew My Business

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#012: Building Your Prospecting Plan (Part Two)

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#011: Building Your Prospecting Plan (Part One)

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#010: Special Q&A on Referrals from Listeners

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#009: Lies We Believe About Referrals

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#008: What a Referral Is and Is NOT

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#007: Part 2 - What To Do When You Need More Referral Sources

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#006: What To Do When You Need More Referral Sources (Part 1)

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#005: 4 Reason You Don't Receive Referrals & What To Do About It

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#004: The Key Ingredient of Generating Referrals

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#003 - Why You Never Ask for Referrals

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#002 - Demystify Your Business Growth in Three Ways

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#001 - Seven Ways I Overcame a Business Failure