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What one quiet referrer costs you

What happens to next year if one of your top three referrers goes quiet?

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What one quiet referrer costs you

What happens to next year if one of your top three referrers goes quiet?

$675Kof next year's new-client revenue rides on three people
$225Klost in a year if one of them goes quiet
3new clients a year a second source of business has to win to cover it

Of your $1.5M in new-client revenue, $675K comes through three people. If one of them retires, changes firms or stops sending work, that's about $225K a year, and a second source of business has to win 3 new clients a year at $100K each to make it up.

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Assumes your top three sources send about equal amounts; if one sends most of it, losing that one costs more. Counts one year of revenue per new client.

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