Referral is your largest channel. It has no owner, no budget and no number.

The channel that brings in most of the work is usually the only one nobody manages, and that is a measurement failure long before it becomes a growth problem.

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Ask a profitable services or trade business where its work comes from and a common answer is some version of: “we don’t really do marketing: most of it is word of mouth.” It is usually said with quiet pride. It is also, read a different way, a statement that the largest source of revenue in the business has no owner, no budget, no forecast and no name attached to it. That combination is worth pausing on. If a paid channel produced 50% of new business, it would have a spend…

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