Common marketing techniques for small business include networking, word of mouth, customer referrals, yellow pages directories, television, radio, outdoor (roadside billboards), print, email marketing, and internet.

In addition, bank tellers or others without N.A.S.D. clearance could not be offered cash or any other incentive for customer referrals that result in fund sales.

Affiliates are also angry over a related technique in which a customer referral gets interrupted by a pop-up advertisement or some other inducement that offers a better deal.

Although there is no fee for either for service providers or the customers, the idea is that the sites will eventually charge merchants for customer referrals.

So far, Travelers and other Primerica subsidiaries have not exchanged customer lists or made customer referrals.

Both pharmacists said they regularly received customer referrals from chain drug stores like CVS or Brooks Pharmacy.

In the 10 years of its existence Plusnet has showed year on year growth in customer numbers, significantly attributable to existing customer referrals.

Under a deal with Ashford, Amazon had agreed to provide customer referrals.

Some of the newer loyalty marketing industry insiders, such as Fred Reichheld, have claimed a strong link between customer loyalty marketing and customer referral.

The most effective way to earn trust is through customer referrals.