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Air Duct Cleaning: Best Referral Sources

Who should be sending you clients, and the rooms they are already sitting in. Tell us where you are and we will send the list.

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The rooms for air duct cleaning companies, the next meeting dates, and who to ask for when you walk in.

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Your one-page action plan

Five partners, what starts the work for each one, and the three rooms to be in. Print it and keep it in the car.

Networking plan: Air Duct Cleaning

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Property Manager (Residential) (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody buys a house
  2. HVAC Contractor (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody buys a house
  3. Pest Control (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody buys a house
  4. Insurance Property & Casualty (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody buys a house
  5. Plumber (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking

The three rooms to be in

  1. Local Facebook & community groups: Your partners are in this room: HVAC contractors, pest control companies, and plumbers.
  2. PHCC (Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors): Your partners are in this room: HVAC contractors and plumbers.
  3. Commercial contractors association (AGC / ABC): Your partners are in this room: HVAC contractors and plumbers.
The people

Who should be sending you clients

Ranked by what starts the job, not by who sounds close to your trade. When something happens that makes people need air duct cleaning companies, who else gets a call that same week?

Match strength is how much of your work starts from the same event as theirs, scored out of 100. Higher means you are more often called into the same job in the same week.

  1. 1 Property Manager (Residential) They send you work Trigger: somebody buys a house 71 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 HVAC Contractor They send you work Trigger: somebody buys a house 65 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Pest Control They send you work Trigger: somebody buys a house 65 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Insurance Property & Casualty They send you work Trigger: somebody buys a house 65 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Plumber They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 63 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Locksmith They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 63 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Moving Company They send you work Trigger: somebody buys a house 63 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Storage Facility They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 62 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Handyman Two-way Trigger: somebody buys a house 61 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 61 match strength out of 100

Knowing the names is half of it. We will send the list with what to say to each one. Send me my list ↑

The rooms

Where those people actually are

Ranked by how many of your best partners are in the room, and how much work each one can send you. Give someone nine choices and they pick none, so we have marked the one to start with.

  1. 1 Local Facebook & community groups Your pick Your partners are in this room: HVAC contractors, pest control companies, and plumbers. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 PHCC (Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors) Your partners are in this room: HVAC contractors and plumbers. Your partners' association · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 Commercial contractors association (AGC / ABC) Your partners are in this room: HVAC contractors and plumbers. Your partners' association · Monthly · $2,000+/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 Nextdoor Your partners are in this room: HVAC contractors, plumbers, and locksmiths. Online community · Always on · Free · ~2 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 Manufacturer training & certification days Your partners are in this room: HVAC contractors and plumbers. Vendor & supply chain · Quarterly · Free · ~3 hrs/month
  6. 6 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: residential property managers, HVAC contractors, and P&C insurance agents. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  7. 7 BNI One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Weekly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~8 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →
  8. 8 LeTip International One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Weekly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~7 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →

Let us be straight with you. For air duct cleaning companies, a weekly referral group is not the best pick. Your partners gather in professional groups instead, so spend your time there. We would rather say that than sell you a seat you do not need.

These rooms meet on real dates. We will send you the next ones for your area. Send me the dates ↑

Your seat

Is your seat open?

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