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	<title>Referral Chronicles</title>
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	<description>Share Your Best Referral Story &#38; You Might Become An Author!</description>
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		<title>Referral Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I received a referral from one of my BNI chapter members. Her mother in law is the Executive Director for the local Habitat for Humanity. They had recently opened an outlet to sell excess construction material and appliances. They were in need of a box truck with a lift gate, to pick up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.referralchronicles.com/2009/12/referral-stories/</link>
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		<title>Giver&#8217;s Gain-The Next Generation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 BNI Awards Banquet for the Triad was a smashing evening filled with heartwarming stories, hard won recognition, and creative dance moves.  Everyone who attended practically floated out of there, especially me.  But I had lots of help in the form of around 60 of the most festively decorated party balloons!  The balloons were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Persistence Pays off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But, after all, it was "hard to refer to a business coaching company," or so I thought, and so our chapter members thought.

Then two of our chapter members from very different industries hired our firm, both 1st tier referrals. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.referralchronicles.com/2009/12/persistence-pays-off/</link>
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		<title>The French Connection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my computer services business, we normally only take on upper-small to medium sized firms. However, we still service a handful of highly affluent clients that are essentially one-man businesses. (or one-woman in this story’s case). One such client, MJ, a French financial expert who had worked for several prominent companies all over the world [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.referralchronicles.com/2009/11/the-french-connection/</link>
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		<title>Credibility is your only friend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In early spring, home and garden shows fill convention centers across the country with the very latest in home decor and consumer bargains . On lookers browse for literature and information as vendors smile and greet their prospective clients. One such prospect enquired about our High efficiency Air Conditioning systems and an appointment was made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.referralchronicles.com/2009/11/credibility-is-your-only-friend/</link>
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		<title>Description of Profitable Referral Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the place to post your story of your most profitable referral. We are referring here to largest dollar amount of closed business. Show us the money!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.referralchronicles.com/2009/11/description-of-profitable-referral-stories/</link>
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		<title>Description of Relational Referral Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Referral sources are critical to the serious networker. Tell us how you connected with your best referral source. What makes the relationship mutually beneficial? How long has your relationship been profitable? Share your success so others can learn from it!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.referralchronicles.com/2009/11/description-of-relational-referral-stories/</link>
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		<title>Description of Referral Training Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you invest in others success through education, you probably have a portfolio of referral examples you use to illustrate a point or teach a technique. Whether it’s what to do or what not to do, post those examples here.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.referralchronicles.com/2009/11/description-of-referral-training-stories/</link>
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		<title>Description of Inspirational Referral Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has your networking led to a connection or relationship that was life-changing, but not necessarily profitable in a material sense? An example would be a person who told us he was connected by referral to someone who helped he and his wife realize their dream of adopting a child. Post your heart-warming, &#8220;Chicken Soup for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.referralchronicles.com/2009/11/description-of-inspirational-referral-stories/</link>
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		<title>Most profitable referral source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The best referral I have ever received came many years ago when I was in a different business. At the time, I sold phone service to business customers. I was working on developing a relationship with a data communications provider. We had many meetings and worked on several small jobs together. Then at my BNI [...]]]></description>
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