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Auto Body & Collision Repair: 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 collision repair shops, 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: Auto Body & Collision Repair

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Chiropractor (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets in a car accident
  2. Towing & Roadside (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets in a car accident
  3. Insurance Property & Casualty (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets in a car accident
  4. Orthopedic & Pain Management (Two-way)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets in a car accident
  5. Home Inspector (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a named storm comes through

The three rooms to be in

  1. Your county medical society: Your partners are in this room: orthopedic and pain management practices and physical therapists.
  2. Local Facebook & community groups: Your partners are in this room: chiropractors, towing operators, and home inspectors.
  3. Hispanic chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: chiropractors and personal injury attorneys.

Don't confuse this with networking: Collision repair association events. Learning and supplier access, not referrals.

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 collision repair shops, 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 Chiropractor They send you work Trigger: somebody gets in a car accident 75 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Towing & Roadside They send you work Trigger: somebody gets in a car accident 75 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Insurance Property & Casualty They send you work Trigger: somebody gets in a car accident 73 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Orthopedic & Pain Management Two-way Trigger: somebody gets in a car accident 66 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Home Inspector They send you work Trigger: a named storm comes through 64 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Property Manager (Residential) They send you work Trigger: a named storm comes through 64 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Attorney Personal Injury Two-way Trigger: somebody gets in a car accident 63 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Junk Removal & Hauling They send you work Trigger: a named storm comes through 61 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) They send you work Trigger: a named storm comes through 61 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Physical Therapist You send them work Trigger: somebody gets in a car accident 60 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 Your county medical society Your pick Your partners are in this room: orthopedic and pain management practices and physical therapists. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 Local Facebook & community groups Your partners are in this room: chiropractors, towing operators, and home inspectors. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 Hispanic chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: chiropractors and personal injury attorneys. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 State chiropractic association Your partners are in this room: chiropractors and physical therapists. Your partners' association · Quarterly · Under $500/yr · ~2 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: chiropractors, P&C insurance agents, and residential property managers. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 Independent Insurance Agents (Big I) Your partner is in this room: P&C insurance agents. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 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 →
The competitor trap

Collision repair association events

Most collision repair shops join this room first. It is also the one most likely to be the wrong pick. Everyone in it does what you do. Join it for the training, the licenses, and the ties to manufacturers. Do not join it for referrals, and do not join it instead of the rooms above.

Let us be straight with you. For collision repair shops, 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?

Prime Time takes one Auto Body & Collision Repair per chapter. Put a South Florida ZIP into the form above and we will show you which seats are open.

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Send it to yourself: the partners above, the rooms ranked for collision repair shops, and the next meeting dates for your area.

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