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Apparel & Custom Clothing: 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 apparel and clothing 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: Apparel & Custom Clothing

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Insurance Property & Casualty (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll
  2. IT Services / Managed IT (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll
  3. Business Banker (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll
  4. CPA / Accountant (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll
  5. Photographer (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event

The three rooms to be in

  1. LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities: Your partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, IT and managed service providers, and business bankers.
  2. Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, IT and managed service providers, and business bankers.
  3. Vistage: Your partners are in this room: IT and managed service providers, business bankers, and CPAs.
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 apparel and clothing 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 Insurance Property & Casualty They send you work Trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll 68 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 IT Services / Managed IT They send you work Trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll 67 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Business Banker They send you work Trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll 66 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 CPA / Accountant They send you work Trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll 66 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Photographer They send you work Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event 65 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Radio / TV / Media Advertising They send you work Trigger: a business launches or rebrands 64 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Event Planner They send you work Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event 63 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Primary Care Physician They send you work Trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated 63 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Florist Two-way Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event 62 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Medical Billing & Practice Management They send you work Trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll 62 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 LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities Your pick Your partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, IT and managed service providers, and business bankers. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, IT and managed service providers, and business bankers. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 Vistage Your partners are in this room: IT and managed service providers, business bankers, and CPAs. Paid peer group · Monthly · $2,000+/yr · ~8 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 Software & platform user groups Your partners are in this room: IT and managed service providers and medical billing companies. Vendor & supply chain · Quarterly · Free · ~2 hrs/month
  5. 5 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 →
  6. 6 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 →
  7. 7 Network In Action One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~3 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →
  8. 8 Master Networks 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 apparel and clothing 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 ↑

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Prime Time takes one Apparel & Custom Clothing per chapter. Put a South Florida ZIP into the form above and we will show you which seats are open.

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