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How to ruin your chances of referrals

28 May 20139 December 2018 Columns, Sales Andy Preston 0 Comments

During a discussion with a group of networking contacts recently, I realised that we all knew at least one person who was ruining their chances of getting referrals just by trying to be seen as a ‘jack of all trades’.

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