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Automotive Sales & Service: 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 auto dealers and 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: Automotive Sales & Service

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Primary Care Physician (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated
  2. Insurance Property & Casualty (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets in a car accident
  3. Childcare & Preschool (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated
  4. Physical Therapist (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets in a car accident
  5. Chiropractor (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets in a car accident

The three rooms to be in

  1. Your county medical society: Your partners are in this room: primary care practices, physical therapists, and orthopedic and pain management practices.
  2. Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: primary care practices, P&C insurance agents, and physical therapists.
  3. State chiropractic association: Your partners are in this room: physical therapists and chiropractors.
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 auto dealers and 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 Primary Care Physician They send you work Trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated 65 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Insurance Property & Casualty They send you work Trigger: somebody gets in a car accident 62 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Childcare & Preschool They send you work Trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated 62 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Physical Therapist They send you work Trigger: somebody gets in a car accident 62 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Chiropractor They send you work Trigger: somebody gets in a car accident 61 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Security Systems They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 61 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Mental Health Therapist They send you work Trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated 61 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Orthopedic & Pain Management They send you work Trigger: somebody gets in a car accident 60 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 59 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 IT Services / Managed IT They send you work Trigger: somebody starts a company 59 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: primary care practices, physical therapists, and orthopedic and pain management practices. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: primary care practices, P&C insurance agents, and physical therapists. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 State chiropractic association Your partners are in this room: physical therapists and chiropractors. Your partners' association · Quarterly · Under $500/yr · ~2 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 MGMA (Medical Group Management Association) Your partners are in this room: primary care practices and orthopedic and pain management practices. Your partners' association · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 Local Facebook & community groups Your partners are in this room: childcare centers and preschools, chiropractors, and therapists and counselors. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 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 →

Let us be straight with you. For auto dealers and 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 ↑

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

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Want this as a list you can act on?

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

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