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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.

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The rooms for carpet cleaning companies, 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: Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Insurance Property & Casualty (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking
  2. Property Manager (Residential) (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a family moves into a new place
  3. Home Inspector (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody puts a house on the market
  4. Painting Contractor (Two-way)
    Shared trigger: somebody puts a house on the market
  5. Locksmith (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a family moves into a new place

The three rooms to be in

  1. Your local Realtor board or association: Your partners are in this room: home inspectors, residential real estate agents, and real estate attorneys.
  2. Local Facebook & community groups: Your partners are in this room: home inspectors, painters, and locksmiths.
  3. Nextdoor: Your partners are in this room: locksmiths, plumbers, and junk removal companies.
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 carpet cleaning companies, 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 Insurance Property & Casualty They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 70 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Property Manager (Residential) They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 68 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Home Inspector They send you work Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 67 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Painting Contractor Two-way Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 66 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Locksmith They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 65 match strength out of 100
  6. 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. 7 Plumber They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 64 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Junk Removal & Hauling They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 64 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Real Estate Agent (Residential) They send you work Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 64 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Attorney Real Estate They send you work Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 64 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 local Realtor board or association Your pick Your partners are in this room: home inspectors, residential real estate agents, and real estate attorneys. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 Local Facebook & community groups Your partners are in this room: home inspectors, painters, and locksmiths. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 Nextdoor Your partners are in this room: locksmiths, plumbers, and junk removal companies. Online community · Always on · Free · ~2 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 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 →
  5. 5 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 →
  6. 6 Network In Action One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~3 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →
  7. 7 Master Networks 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 →
  8. 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. Structured referral group · Weekly · Under $500/yr · ~5 hrs/month · One seat per category

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 ↑

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