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If You Could Recommend One Small Business, Which Would You Choose?

March 9th, 2010 |

March 8 – 12, 2010 is Make a Referral Week, which small business would you recommend to others and why? According to the Make a Referral Week website, “Make a Referral Week is an entrepreneurial approach to stimulating the small business economy one referred business at a time. The goal for the week is to generate 1000 referred leads to 1000 deserving small businesses in an effort to highlight the impact of a simple action that could blossom into millions of dollars in new business.”

On March 10 at noon CST, there is also a webinar designed to teach you how to incorporate a referral system into your business. I have registered for the session, click here to register. There will be other web events during the week that you can participate in.

I thought about this question and I would recommend Rodger Harding from Harding International and Associates Inc. I interviewed Rodger for my newsletter Ambeck Edge over a year ago and I also posted the interview here if you wanted to read it. I have known Rodger for at least five years and I used his services through the Canadian Women in Communications. I participated in the one-to-one mentoring program. He has the ability to read people, and he knows which questions to ask. I have had coaches before and he is very different from them. He didn’t attend coaching school and in his words he “validates excellence,” the excellence in you. Each mentoring session is two hours in length and he video records the session so that you can review it later.

After you participate in one of Rodger’s one-to-one mentoring sessions, you have clarity around what your next steps are. He is brutally, honest so the faint at heart may not appreciate his candidness. I have interviewed members of the Canadian Women in Communications for two projects and many of the interviewees have sang the praises of the program.

For Make a Referral Week, which small business would you refer and why? Go to the Make a Referral Week website and click on the link Make Your Referral Here! Let’s all do our small part.

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