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Business Coach: 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 business coaches, the next meeting dates, and who to ask for when you walk in.

Your top referral sources
  1. CPA / Accountant
  2. Bookkeeper
  3. Attorney Business & Corporate
  4. Insurance Health & Benefits
  5. Business Banker
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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: Business Coach

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. CPA / Accountant (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody starts a company
  2. Bookkeeper (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody starts a company
  3. Attorney Business & Corporate (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody starts a company
  4. Insurance Health & Benefits (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll
  5. Business Banker (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody starts a company

The three rooms to be in

  1. LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities: Your partners are in this room: CPAs, bookkeepers, and business attorneys.
  2. State CPA society: Your partners are in this room: CPAs, bookkeepers, and financial advisors.
  3. Vistage: Your partners are in this room: CPAs, business attorneys, and business bankers.
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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 business coaches, 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 CPA / Accountant They send you work Trigger: somebody starts a company 80 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Bookkeeper They send you work Trigger: somebody starts a company 75 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Attorney Business & Corporate They send you work Trigger: somebody starts a company 75 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Insurance Health & Benefits They send you work Trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll 68 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Business Banker They send you work Trigger: somebody starts a company 66 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Staffing / Recruiting They send you work Trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll 66 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Payroll Services They send you work Trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll 65 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Merchant Services / Payment Processing Two-way Trigger: somebody starts a company 63 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 HR Consulting / PEO They send you work Trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll 63 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Financial Advisor They send you work Trigger: an owner sells the company 63 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: CPAs, bookkeepers, and business attorneys. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 State CPA society Your partners are in this room: CPAs, bookkeepers, and financial advisors. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 Vistage Your partners are in this room: CPAs, business attorneys, and business bankers. Paid peer group · Monthly · $2,000+/yr · ~8 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: CPAs, bookkeepers, and business attorneys. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 SHRM local chapter Your partners are in this room: health and benefits brokers, staffing and recruiting firms, and payroll providers. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 Your local estate planning council Your partners are in this room: CPAs and financial advisors. 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 business coaches, 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.

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