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Referral Network: Understand the Advantage

Referral Network: Understand the Advantage

Word of mouth is how people establish trust, build relationships, and create strong professional and interpersonal connections. That’s why referral networks are crucial for business owners. Find out more about referral networks and how they can improve your business with this course.  

How Utilizing a Fruitful Referral Network Can Work For You

Since you’re searching for a professional development course, you know you need to make a change or to learn new skills. Everyone you meet, in your field or the clients you make along the way, can be a pivotal connection to another potential prospect. Referral networks are crucial for capitalizing on this inertia built between clients and peers. When you leave a lasting impression, you want to be sure they have the tools and the incentive they need to refer you to friends, associates, and others who can benefit from it.

In this course, you will learn the tools, skills, rules and practical implementation of building and utilizing a referral network. Additionally, this course will demonstrate all the ways an effective and impactful referral network can improve overall business performance.

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Lesson Plan

Tools to create your referral network.

Develop the skills to utilize that referral network.

Learn the practical implementation of a referral network.

Referral Network: Understand the Advantage

Learn Why a Referral Network is Crucial for Success

A referral network is not just about referral discounts and inviting a friend to events. Business development courses like this one are designed to give you tools and practical implementations to build a referral network that relies on lasting connections and can propel your business forward. 

Get Started With Referral Network:
Understand the Advantage

Building your referral network will require skills, tools, and advice you didn’t know you needed. With these professional courses, business owners like you can advance their business’s initiatives. Capitalizing on pre-existing and emerging relationships is the best thing you can do for your business and learn how with professional development courses like this one. 

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the benefits of professional development courses?

Professional development courses are crucial for keeping your business current with marketing trends, technological advancements, and iterative improvements to your processes. 

How long does the course take to complete?

We suggest our courses be taken over 5 days in order to give you time to absorb the lessons from each video and have time to apply them to your business.

How soon can I start my course after I purchase it?

You can begin the course immediately after purchase by logging into your account! There you’ll have access to every course you’ve purchased with Athena Captain, including downloadable handouts to go with the video lessons.

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Coach, Speaker, Author

Through her unique combination of life experience and a heart for sharing, Athena brings her extremely engaging and humble style to the speaking arena, captivating audiences ranging from professional single moms, to families raising kids with special needs, to entrepreneurs and sales professionals looking to create a growing sales machine.


Athena’s heart drives her to serve those who know, deep down, that they have a gift, a knack, that hasn’t fully developed, and who hunger for that spark of inspiration and knowledge that will finally help them turn that corner. Her proven results building a referral-based prospecting and sales machine for a custom homebuilding company, after building a hugely successful sales team for one of the nation’s largest mortgage firms, give her credibility to inspire and teach an audience of professionals from any size organization. Her life spent raising a child with special needs, while juggling the load that comes with being a world-class sales and marketing professional, all while overcoming the challenges of someone who scores 10 / 10 on the ACE scale, gives her credibility to speak into the lives of an audience facing similar challenges, but who also share the belief and vision that they can do, and become, more than anyone ever thought possible.


Athena brings a unique combination of grit, empathy, and no-excuses inspiration that speaks to a range of audiences, leaving them with not only the motivation, but also the tools, to go back into the world with a renewed sense of purpose, with an understanding of how to carry it out.