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    Referral Marketing

    Our Top Seven Ideas for Accounting and Financial Services The author discusses findings from a Hinge Research Institute (HRI) conducted with 523 professional services firms regarding why firms do not get more referrals. One interesting finding was why firms do not get more referrals. HRI found that in 72% of cases, the answer is simple: no one asked them. HRI also learned that 81.5% of service providers have received referrals from individuals and companies who they have never worked with. Below, the author explains the top seven referral marketing approaches HRI learned about. But first, the author takes a minute…

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    Using LinkedIn

    As a Strategic Marketing Tool for Your Organization How valuable is LinkedIn for marketing your firm? Yourself? Sources project that LinkedIn will have over 500 million users by 2020. In this article, Lee Frederiksen discusses how LinkedIn can be used to market an organization.

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    Why Visible Experts are Transforming Firms

    And How to Become One We all know their names. They’re the industry stars that headline conferences and write the definitive books in their fields. Sometimes their names are known beyond their industries and they bring acclaim to their firms. We call these individuals Visible ExpertsSM, and it has become increasingly evident that they are changing the way professional services are purchased and understood. So what benefit, if any, does a firm derive from giving Visible Experts? In this article, Hinge Marketing’s Dr. Frederiksen reveals the findings.