How do you say no to a referral without damaging a current client relationship?

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Be honest. Let them know it wasn’t a good fit but that you still appreciate the referral. Better than taking them on as a client and then it getting sour later on (which could cost you both clients).

Read “Members Only”. It’s a great book about creating an exclusive type practice. My goal is to do something like that where expectations of “we are exclusive” is the standard from the start

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Why do you want to reject then

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