Unlock the Secret to Boosting Your Writing Business: The Referral Strategy You Never Knew Existed!
Then ask them who they may know that would also benefit from your services. After they just told you all the high points of working with you and the incredible results your skills brought to them, singing your praises to others is the next logical step. Manipulative? Sure. But often it’s important to guide your clients and colleagues along a path to get the right type of referral.
Marketing for referrals
Finally, make the quest for referrals a regular part of your marketing mix. Add these tasks to your calendar and set up reminders. Develop materials your potential referrers can use to provide value in making referrals. Do what you can to ease referral anxiety on the part of your contact. 
Scour LinkedIn and other social media site for connections. Whenever possible and appropriate, educate your clients, colleagues and contacts as to what you’re looking for in prospects and referrals.
