Why 3rd Parties Refer to You?

Selling benefits to third parties will get you referrals. Consider sales a relationship where you both give each other benefits. Why would third parties like trust officers, elder law attorneys, conservators, or guardians refer a care manager to their aging client and family? If you have an Aging Life or GCM business you need to know what benefits you offer the third party if they are going to give you the benefit of a new client.

Most care managers think it is their expertise that will ensure the referral ¨But third parties cannot evaluate your expertise. Features like a great care plan do not work as most do not know what a really great care plan is ¨If you are selling a service like geriatric care management you are selling  benefits

Selling benefits to third parties will get you referrals 

Why do you need to know this? First, you need to create a practice that meets the needs of your clients and major referral sources. Many clients- usually adult children, call you to start services on their own. But a good majority of clients will call you because their attorney, bank trust officer, CPA, Financial Manager referred them. These third parties need to know the benefits you are going to give them and their clients.

They want to be sure you answer ” What’s in it for me” if they are to make referrals to your agency. On the feeding chain of referrals, they are one of your most important sources to feed income into your business. You have to deliver what they need to make money and that is selling benefits.

Let’s start with a first impression.

Most people make snap judgments on a First Impression and it “ anchors” every impression afterward ¨Expertise, statistics most features are not as important to your sale as the benefits you offer  them and their clients¨Make a great first impression- with a third party- warm, helpful –and someone who will give them what makes their life better -just like care managers do in nursing or social work

Sales Meeting a Relationship Building Meeting

When you are finally in a marketing meeting with a third party who might refer a client to you-

Do not call this encounter a marketing meeting,   For the care manager with “intangible” services, this is a relationship-building meeting.

People work with individuals who they like. So your objective is to improve the life of a customer. The idea is to tell how important relationship building is and how you can adopt it in your day-to-day life.

Relationships are not built overnight, it takes time to nurture. Strong, enduring client relationships are the lifeblood of most organizations. Understanding what your customers like, dislike will help grow your business. So you are selling  benefits from your  care management build your relationship to reap ongoing to new referrals

3rd parties will refer clients if you offer what benefits them.

3rd Parties Refer Clients if You Offer What Benefits Them.

¨You are presenting yourself and your services to a potential customer or referral source. ¨If you were selling widgets, you would have various sizes of widgets to show. ¨Because you are selling care management services- Intangible products

Your most compelling sales message to a third party is not that you have something wonderful to sell, it is ” I understand what you need what will benefit you.” The only person in that marketing

meeting who really matters is the third party who will make the referral. They will refer clients if you offer what benefits them.

• If they are a conservator or guardian one benefit is you can act as ‘medical information hub,’ attending doctor appointments and providing Conservator with physician notes, current vital signs, medications information, and treatment directions.
• If the third party is an assisted living director you will engage with new residents who are not happy in the facility or want to move, by helping them find socialize with other residents through activity programs, make friends, and participate in outside activities, through your Quality of Life Assessment and through a Concierge Companion, so they will not move out

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A feature is a fact    A benefit tells your customer the advantages of those facts 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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How to create a winning sales pitch to a third party

The difference between selling features vs benefits

How to sell the benefits of your services for each 3rd party you  serve

How Benefits make your sale to wealth managers, elder law attorneys, and concierge physicians to get referrals for new clients

The Benefits that make your sale to upscale Assisted Living, accountants, financial planners, Hospice

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