TMI & Associates Starts Refer-a-friend program

Wouldn't is be cool if you could take the best parts of Facebook, Groupon & Constant Contact to make an exclusive new sales & marketing tool that allows your customers to share about you with their friends and family. And, that the whole process could be completely automated, able to be set up by anyone in your office and is an affordable monthly price with no commitment.

So did we.  So we built it.
The referral software you were hoping for is here.

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92% of consumers around the world say they believe word of mouth and recommendations from friends and family above all other forms of advertising.
Source: Nielsen Global Trust in Advertising Survey Q23 2011


The proof is definitely in the pudding
Good for you for asking that question. Great marketing ideas don't always apply to every type of business and every industry. It's always a good idea to question anything before you spend valuable time and money doing it. We have done the research and the statistics prove that social incentive sharing is working all over. Keep reading to see what we mean.

• More than 2/3 of consumer related economic activity in the US is driven by personal recommendations
• 90% of customers identify word of mouth as the best, most reliable and trustworthy source of ideas and information on products or services.
• 91% of consumers regularly or occasionally seek advice about products or services before they make a purchase.
• The average value of a referred customer is at least 16% higher than that of a non-referred customer with similar demographics and time of acquisition.
• It takes half the time to close an unreferred prospect as it does a referred prospect.
• 66% of consumers will use online coupons for at least 25% of their purchases in the next 12 months, a 20% increase from 55% who used online coupons for at least 25% of their purchases in the last 12 months.
• Groupon has 60 million subscribers and Living Social has over 20 million subscribers.
• 65% of adult internet users now say they use a social networking site like MySpace, Facebook or LinkedIn, up from 61% one year ago.
• As of 2011, there are 500,000,000 active Facebook users. Approximately 1 in every 13 people on Earth. Half of them are logged in on any given day.
• As of June 2011, Twitter reports over 200 million tweets everyday.
• According to Drew Houston founder of Dropbox, they increased their sign ups by 60% after they started their tell a friend program.

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