Apparel & Custom Clothing: Best Referral Sources
Who should be sending you clients, and the rooms they are already sitting in.
Get the networking events worth showing up to
Tell us where you are. We will send you the best rooms for apparel and clothing companies and the next meeting dates. Add a ZIP and this page will also show your local chapters and which seats are open.
Most business owners network where their competitors are, not where their referral partners are.
Your own trade group is for learning. Your partners' groups are where the work comes from. Everything below starts with one question. When something happens that makes people need apparel and clothing companies, who else gets a call that same week?
Apparel and clothing companies sell to both individuals and businesses, and most of the work starts when a family plans a wedding or milestone event. People take their time deciding, so a recommendation carries most of the weight. Clients come back, which makes one good introduction worth years.
- Wedding or major eventwhen a family plans a wedding or milestone event
- First hire / payrollwhen a business puts its first employee on payroll
- Rebrand or launchwhen a business launches or rebrands
- Job changewhen somebody changes jobs or gets relocated
Who should be sending you clients
Who you should be sending clients to
Ranked by what starts the job, not by who sounds close to your trade.
The same list, turned around. Give first and the rest follows.
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Insurance Property & Casualty
They send you work68Trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll
P&C insurance agents hear about it when a business puts its first employee on payroll, before you do. This one sends you work rather than trading it.
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IT Services / Managed IT
They send you work67Trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll
IT and managed service providers hear about it when a business puts its first employee on payroll, before you do. This one sends you work rather than trading it.
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Business Banker
They send you work66Trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll
Business bankers hear about it when a business puts its first employee on payroll, before you do. This one sends you work rather than trading it.
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CPA / Accountant
They send you work66Trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll
CPAs hear about it when a business puts its first employee on payroll, before you do. This one sends you work rather than trading it.
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Photographer
They send you work65Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event
Photographers hear about it when a family plans a wedding or milestone event, before you do. This one sends you work rather than trading it.
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Radio / TV / Media Advertising
They send you work64Trigger: a business launches or rebrands
Media and advertising reps hear about it when a business launches or rebrands, before you do. This one sends you work rather than trading it.
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Event Planner
They send you work63Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event
Event planners hear about it when a family plans a wedding or milestone event, before you do. This one sends you work rather than trading it.
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Primary Care Physician
They send you work63Trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated
Primary care practices hear about it when somebody changes jobs or gets relocated, before you do. This one sends you work rather than trading it.
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Florist
Two-way62Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event
You and florists both get the call when a family plans a wedding or milestone event, usually the same week. This one goes both ways.
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Medical Billing & Practice Management
They send you work62Trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll
Medical billing companies hear about it when a business puts its first employee on payroll, before you do. This one sends you work rather than trading it.
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DJ & Entertainment
Two-way62Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event
You and DJs and entertainment companies both get the call when a family plans a wedding or milestone event, usually the same week. This one goes both ways.
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Caterer
Two-way60Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event
You and caterers both get the call when a family plans a wedding or milestone event, usually the same week. This one goes both ways.
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Videographer
Two-way56Trigger: a business launches or rebrands
You and videographers both get the call when a business launches or rebrands, usually the same week. This one goes both ways.
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Printing Services
Two-way56Trigger: a business launches or rebrands
You and printers both get the call when a business launches or rebrands, usually the same week. This one goes both ways.
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Florist
Two-way56Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event
You and florists both get the call when a family plans a wedding or milestone event, usually the same week. This one goes both ways.
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Travel Agent
You send them work56Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event
You hear about it when a family plans a wedding or milestone event, before travel advisors do. Expect to give more than you get back here.
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.
LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities
Your partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, IT and managed service providers, and business bankers.
Works when your buyer has a job title. Useful comments on your partners' posts beat posting your own.
Find your local chapter →Give someone nine choices and they pick none. If you do one thing from this page, do this.
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LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities
Online communityYour partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, IT and managed service providers, and business bankers.
Works when your buyer has a job title. Useful comments on your partners' posts beat posting your own.
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Your city or county chamber of commerce
Chamber of commerceYour partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, IT and managed service providers, and business bankers.
Too big and too broad on its own. The value is in one committee. Pick one and go every time. The same fifteen people show up, and they get to know you.
Chapter finder → - 03
Vistage
Paid peer groupYour partners are in this room: IT and managed service providers, business bankers, and CPAs.
Run CEO peer groups. You are buying advice, not leads, but the group turns into a warm list over time.
Chapter finder → - 04
Software & platform user groups
Vendor & supply chainYour partners are in this room: IT and managed service providers and medical billing companies.
Groups for the software your customers use, like practice management, property management, and accounting. You meet people in the middle of a problem.
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BNI
Structured referral groupOne seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above.
The biggest referral group in the world. You meet every week. Only one person per job. They expect you to show up.
Chapter finder → - 06
LeTip International
Structured referral groupOne seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above.
Weekly referral chapters. One person per job. Strong with trades and home services.
Chapter finder → - 07
Network In Action
Structured referral groupOne seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above.
Referral groups that meet once a month. Good if you cannot give up a morning every week.
Chapter finder → - 08
Master Networks
Structured referral groupOne seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above.
Weekly chapters with one person per job. They spend more time teaching than most.
Chapter finder →
LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities
Your partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, IT and managed service providers, and business bankers.
Works when your buyer has a job title. Useful comments on your partners' posts beat posting your own.
Find your local chapter →Give someone nine choices and they pick none. If you do one thing from this page, do this.
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LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities
Online communityYour partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, IT and managed service providers, and business bankers.
Works when your buyer has a job title. Useful comments on your partners' posts beat posting your own.
Chapter finder → - 02
Your city or county chamber of commerce
Chamber of commerceYour partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, IT and managed service providers, and business bankers.
Too big and too broad on its own. The value is in one committee. Pick one and go every time. The same fifteen people show up, and they get to know you.
Chapter finder → - 03
Vistage
Paid peer groupYour partners are in this room: IT and managed service providers, business bankers, and CPAs.
Run CEO peer groups. You are buying advice, not leads, but the group turns into a warm list over time.
Chapter finder → - 04
Software & platform user groups
Vendor & supply chainYour partners are in this room: IT and managed service providers and medical billing companies.
Groups for the software your customers use, like practice management, property management, and accounting. You meet people in the middle of a problem.
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Prime Time Business Network
Structured referral groupOne seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above.
A South Florida referral group. Only one person per job in each chapter. So your competitors are kept out, and your referral partners have the other seats.
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An independent local leads group
Structured referral groupOne seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above.
Most cities have small leads groups you will never find online. A realtor or insurance agent usually starts them. Ask three people in your trade who they meet with.
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MGMA (Medical Group Management Association)
Your partners' associationYour partners are in this room: primary care practices and medical billing companies.
Office managers for doctors. They pick the vendors. The doctors just get sold to.
Chapter finder → - 08
Independent Insurance Agents (Big I)
Your partners' associationYour partner is in this room: P&C insurance agents.
Insurance agents. They get the first call after almost any damage, and they talk to the client every year at renewal.
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.
Is your seat open?
Prime Time takes one apparel & custom clothing per chapter. Put in a South Florida ZIP above and we will show you which seats are open.
Add a ZIP code at the top of the page to see which seats are open.
Prime Time doesn't operate where you are yet.
We have fifteen chapters in South Florida and none near you. Telling you to join would be bad advice. The rooms above are the real answer where you are. We can email you the one page version and let you know if we open near you.
Send me those roomsHave the next meetings sent to you
The rooms above are the answer. This is when they meet. Tell us where to send it and we will email you the next dates for apparel and clothing companies, with the one page plan.
We already know your trade and your area from this page, so there is nothing else to fill in. We do not ask for a phone number. Every email we send has an unsubscribe link.
Your one-page action plan
Five partners, five things to say, three rooms. Print it and keep it in the car.
Networking plan: Apparel & Custom Clothing
The five people who should be sending you clients
- Insurance Property & Casualty (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll - IT Services / Managed IT (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll - Business Banker (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll - CPA / Accountant (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll - Photographer (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event
The three rooms to be in
- LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities: Your partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, IT and managed service providers, and business bankers.
- 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.
- Vistage: Your partners are in this room: IT and managed service providers, business bankers, and CPAs.
- LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities: Your partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, IT and managed service providers, and business bankers.
- 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.
- Vistage: Your partners are in this room: IT and managed service providers, business bankers, and CPAs.