Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning: 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.
- Insurance Property & Casualty
- Property Manager (Residential)
- Home Inspector
- Painting Contractor
- Locksmith
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: Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning
The five people who should be sending you clients
- Insurance Property & Casualty (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking - Property Manager (Residential) (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a family moves into a new place - Home Inspector (They send you work)
Shared trigger: somebody puts a house on the market - Painting Contractor (Two-way)
Shared trigger: somebody puts a house on the market - Locksmith (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a family moves into a new place
The three rooms to be in
- Your local Realtor board or association: Your partners are in this room: home inspectors, residential real estate agents, and real estate attorneys.
- Local Facebook & community groups: Your partners are in this room: home inspectors, painters, and locksmiths.
- Nextdoor: Your partners are in this room: locksmiths, plumbers, and junk removal companies.
- Your local Realtor board or association: Your partners are in this room: home inspectors, residential real estate agents, and real estate attorneys.
- Local Facebook & community groups: Your partners are in this room: home inspectors, painters, and locksmiths.
- Nextdoor: Your partners are in this room: locksmiths, plumbers, and junk removal companies.
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 carpet cleaning 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 Insurance Property & Casualty They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 70 match strength out of 100
- 2 Property Manager (Residential) They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 68 match strength out of 100
- 3 Home Inspector They send you work Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 67 match strength out of 100
- 4 Painting Contractor Two-way Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 66 match strength out of 100
- 5 Locksmith They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 65 match strength out of 100
- 6 Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 65 match strength out of 100
- 7 Plumber They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 64 match strength out of 100
- 8 Junk Removal & Hauling They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 64 match strength out of 100
- 9 Real Estate Agent (Residential) They send you work Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 64 match strength out of 100
- 10 Attorney Real Estate They send you work Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 64 match strength out of 100
- 1 Drywall & Stucco Contractor You send them work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 61 match strength out of 100
- 2 Veterinarian You send them work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 61 match strength out of 100
- 3 Painting Contractor Two-way Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 59 match strength out of 100
- 4 Dentist You send them work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 58 match strength out of 100
- 5 Moving Company Two-way Trigger: a family moves into a new place 57 match strength out of 100
- 6 Gutter Contractor You send them work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 57 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 Your local Realtor board or association Your pick Your partners are in this room: home inspectors, residential real estate agents, and real estate attorneys. Chapter finder →
- 2 Local Facebook & community groups Your partners are in this room: home inspectors, painters, and locksmiths. Chapter finder →
- 3 Nextdoor Your partners are in this room: locksmiths, plumbers, and junk removal companies. Chapter finder →
- 4 BNI One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Chapter finder →
- 5 LeTip International One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Chapter finder →
- 6 Network In Action One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Chapter finder →
- 7 Master Networks One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Chapter finder →
- 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.
- 1 Your local Realtor board or association Your pick Your partners are in this room: home inspectors, residential real estate agents, and real estate attorneys. Chapter finder →
- 2 Local Facebook & community groups Your partners are in this room: home inspectors, painters, and locksmiths. Chapter finder →
- 3 Nextdoor Your partners are in this room: locksmiths, plumbers, and junk removal companies. Chapter finder →
- 4 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 →
- 5 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.
- 6 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, residential property managers, and community association managers. Chapter finder →
- 7 Independent Insurance Agents (Big I) Your partner is in this room: P&C insurance agents. Chapter finder →
- 8 LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities Your partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, residential property managers, and residential real estate agents. Chapter finder →
Let us be straight with you. For carpet cleaning 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 Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning per chapter. Put a South Florida ZIP into the form above and we will show you which seats are open.
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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 carpet cleaning companies, and the next meeting dates for your area.
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