Hello everybody, Mickey Griffith here with the Referral Institute in the North San Francisco Bay area. With me today is the amazing talented Dawn Lyons, she’s my co-owner in the franchise and she’s also the Vice-President of the Referral Institute World Wide. Very happy to be here with her today and to have her give you some great insight. So my question for you Dawn is, what is one of the things that you feel entrepreneurs struggle with the most?
Dawn Lyons: This is a super hot topic for me because it’s a big pet peeve of mine. I really find that entrepreneurs have a super hard time asking for help. They are there so used to doing everything all by themselves. Well, I have a famous quote, well, least it’s famous in Referral Institute. “Referral Marketing… You just cannot do it alone,” that is one thing that you take away from this video here today is entrepreneurs have to get better at building a Referral Team.
MG: Yes.
DL: If they can built a Referral Team it’s an excellent way to not feel so alone and having to always do things on their own. How do you feel about the subject?
MG: I totally love the subject because as an entrepreneur and I have been an entrepreneur for over 10 years, that there’s a lot of times that I feel like I’m on an island, and it’s not just with Referral Marketing just in general, so I find that with my Referral Team, the more developed they get, the more support I get in so many other areas not just in Referrals.
DL: We don’t want to be in an island all by ourselves, right?
MG: No.
DL: And we need to be able to ask for help. So the beautiful part when you’re an entrepreneur about actually asking for help is people might not even know that you need the help. So if you can allow them to help you, it really does make a big difference in the relationship. I’m gonna make an ask right now. If you really truly don’t want to be alone in your Referral Marketing efforts, your next step is to go back to our home page, take a look at the “Whats going on” button, click it, and then look for our program called Referral Success 101. Get to that program as quickly as you can, but don’t come alone.
MG: Oh definitely.
DL: Right? So what you want to do is you want to bring a couple of people that you think are interested and generating more referral business. You know they’re interested in wanting to help you and you help them grow your businesses. So we hope to see you at the next Referral Success 101 with a couple of people, get registered, get here so that we can help you make sure that you’re never ever alone again.
MG: That is a fantastic insight. Thank you so much Dawn.
DL: Welcome.