Cabinetry & Countertops: 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.
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: Cabinetry & Countertops
The five people who should be sending you clients
- Interior Designer (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel - Remodeling Contractor (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel - General Contractor (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel - Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel - Flooring Contractor (Two-way)
Shared trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel
The three rooms to be in
- Local home builders association (NAHB affiliate): Your partners are in this room: interior designers, general contractors, and flooring companies.
- Distributor & showroom trade nights: Your partners are in this room: interior designers, remodeling contractors, and flooring companies.
- AIA (American Institute of Architects) chapter: Your partners are in this room: interior designers, general contractors, and architects.
- Local home builders association (NAHB affiliate): Your partners are in this room: interior designers, general contractors, and flooring companies.
- Distributor & showroom trade nights: Your partners are in this room: interior designers, remodeling contractors, and flooring companies.
- AIA (American Institute of Architects) chapter: Your partners are in this room: interior designers, general contractors, and architects.
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. When something happens that makes people need cabinet and countertop companies, who else gets a call that same week?
The same list, turned around. Give first and the rest follows.
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 Interior Designer They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 79 match strength out of 100
- 2 Remodeling Contractor They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 78 match strength out of 100
- 3 General Contractor They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 74 match strength out of 100
- 4 Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 73 match strength out of 100
- 5 Flooring Contractor Two-way Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 68 match strength out of 100
- 6 Window & Door Installer Two-way Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 66 match strength out of 100
- 7 Plumber They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 64 match strength out of 100
- 8 Structural Engineer They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 63 match strength out of 100
- 9 Architect They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 63 match strength out of 100
- 10 Tile & Stone Contractor You send them work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 62 match strength out of 100
- 1 Tile & Stone Contractor You send them work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 64 match strength out of 100
- 2 Concrete & Paver Contractor You send them work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 64 match strength out of 100
- 3 Flooring Contractor Two-way Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 63 match strength out of 100
- 4 Solar Energy Contractor You send them work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 63 match strength out of 100
- 5 Window & Door Installer Two-way Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 61 match strength out of 100
- 6 Smart Home & AV Integrator You send them work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 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 ↑
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 Local home builders association (NAHB affiliate) Your pick Your partners are in this room: interior designers, general contractors, and flooring companies. Chapter finder →
- 2 Distributor & showroom trade nights Your partners are in this room: interior designers, remodeling contractors, and flooring companies.
- 3 AIA (American Institute of Architects) chapter Your partners are in this room: interior designers, general contractors, and architects. Chapter finder →
- 4 NARI (National Association of the Remodeling Industry) Your partners are in this room: remodeling contractors and general contractors. Chapter finder →
- 5 CAI (Community Associations Institute) Your partners are in this room: community association managers and structural engineers. Chapter finder →
- 6 Commercial contractors association (AGC / ABC) Your partners are in this room: general contractors and plumbers. Chapter finder →
- 7 BNI One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Chapter finder →
- 8 LeTip International One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Chapter finder →
- 1 Local home builders association (NAHB affiliate) Your pick Your partners are in this room: interior designers, general contractors, and flooring companies. Chapter finder →
- 2 Distributor & showroom trade nights Your partners are in this room: interior designers, remodeling contractors, and flooring companies.
- 3 AIA (American Institute of Architects) chapter Your partners are in this room: interior designers, general contractors, and architects. Chapter finder →
- 4 NARI (National Association of the Remodeling Industry) Your partners are in this room: remodeling contractors and general contractors. Chapter finder →
- 5 CAI Southeast Florida chapter Your partners are in this room: community association managers and structural engineers. Chapter finder →
- 6 Commercial contractors association (AGC / ABC) Your partners are in this room: general contractors and plumbers. Chapter finder →
- 7 Prime Time Business Network One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. See chapters →
- 8 An independent local leads group One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above.
Let us be straight with you. For cabinet and countertop 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 ↑
Is your seat open?
Prime Time takes one Cabinetry & Countertops per chapter. Put a South Florida ZIP into the form above and we will show you which seats are open.
Add your ZIP code in the form above to see which seats are open. Go to the form ↑
Prime Time doesn't operate where you are yet.
We have chapters across 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 roomsWant this as a list you can act on?
Send it to yourself: the partners above, the rooms ranked for cabinet and countertop companies, and the next meeting dates for your area.
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