The key to a successful referral program is promoting it. Referral Factory has built so many promotional tools to make it easy for your users to refer friends.
You can build the world's greatest referral program but if no one knows about it, you won't get referrals. Referrals are a powerful way to get new business or opportunities, and all you need to do to encourage referrals from your customers is 1) build a referral program and 2) ask your customers to spread the word.
This help guide will show you how to get more referrals by using the different promotional tools available on Referral Factory - we offer widgets, email tools, join links, and much more. You can use these tools to promote your referral program and encourage people to refer their friends. Doing this will help you generate more high-quality referrals for your business and it will make sure you get a great ROI on your investment into referral marketing as a channel.
One your referral program is setup, you'll need to promote it so everyone knows you are offering rewards for referrals. Below you'll see all the various tools you get access to to promote your 'refer a friend' campaign far and wide. Remember that the more people that know about your campaign, the more referrals you are likely to get!
These are the ways you can promote your referral program 👇
👉 Get your join link, and let people register to refer
👉 Generate referral links for your CRM contacts
👉 Install a widget on your website
👉 Install a pop-up on your website or product
👉 Embed your join link on your website
👉 Upload and email your contacts their referral links
👉 Get your join link, and let people register to refer
Every campaign gets a join link that you can share with your customers so they can register to start referring. To generate referrals, you can share this link on social media and promote it to your database of customers so that they can join your referral program to refer friends.
To see how it works, click here.
👉 Generate referral links for your CRM contacts
This will allow you to sync your CRM contacts or a specific list of contacts to your referral campaign, and call their unique referral links back to your CRM. That way you can share your customer's link with them through your own workflows to generate more referrals.
To see how it works, click here.
👉 Install a widget on your website
Use your website to turn traffic into referrals by prompting the people who visit your website to refer friends (using a widget). Below is a screenshot of how we used the widget feature to get referrals from our website visitors.
Learn how to install the widget by clicking here. This can work for logged-in or logged-out users.
👉 Install a pop-up on your website or product
Turn your website traffic into referrals by prompting your website visitors to refer friends (using a pop-up). You can install our pop-up onto your website like this…
Learn how to install the pop-up by clicking here. This can work for logged-in or logged-out users.
👉 Embed your join link on your website
Host your referral program on any page or post on your website. This will allow customers to join your referral program and start referring friends.
Learn how to install the embed code by clicking here. This only works for logged-out users.
👉 Upload and email your contacts their referral links
You can upload a list of users and send an email to your fans or customers, issuing them their referral links directly. This feature will send users referral links straight to their inboxes so you can get referrals faster.
To see how it works, click here.
The following points can also help you reach more people and get more referrals 👇
- Get all your employees to ask for referrals in their email signatures
2. Pin your referral program to the top of your social feed.
3. Train your team to ASK
Check out this article for more referral program promotion ideas that will help you market and promote your referral program once it’s launched.
Referral marketing is an extremely powerful way to generate leads and grow your business. All you need to do to get referrals is ask for them. It may take time for your referral program to grow, but it will definitely be worth it in the end when you manage to turn one customer into two through referral marketing.
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