Referral marketing
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Referral marketing | Referral marketing is a word-of-mouth initiative designed by a company to incentivize existing customers to introduce their family, friends and contacts to become new customers. Different from pure word-of-mouth strategies which are primarily customer-directed with the company unable to track, influence, and measure message content; referral marketing encourages and rewards the referrer for allowing a company to do so. Different from multi-level marketing, there is no incentive for the original existing customer to drive or influence the subsequent referrals of the new customer – only the conversion of the initial, primary customer is rewarded. |