"Your product needs to be remarkable. It needs to be worthy of remarking upon to your social circle and friends."

Welcome to the Little Gym, Big Heart podcast! Today, Devin Gage shares his insights on how to build a scalable and repeatable referral engine for your fitness business. He emphasizes the importance of having a remarkable product that is worthy of remark and identifies three key reasons why people refer: reciprocity, social norms, and status. Devin provides practical strategies for leveraging these factors to generate more referrals, such as asking for referrals at critical moments, using talk triggers, and rewarding and recognizing clients who refer others. He also highlights the significance of removing friction in the referral process to make it easier for clients to bring in their friends.

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Timestamps:

(01:11) - Reasons people refer: reciprocity, social norms, and status

(02:18) - Using reciprocity to ask for referrals

(04:02) - Elevating social status through the "Magic Business Card" technique

(09:01) - Making referrals a social norm through rewarding and recognizing

(11:24) - Removing friction to encourage referrals

(11:52) - The challenges of generating referrals in a fitness business

(13:01) - The three critical times to ask for a referral

(14:31) - Asking for a referral when a client cancels

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