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Closets & Home Organization: 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 closet and organization 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: Closets & Home Organization

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Storage Facility (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a family moves into a new place
  2. Junk Removal & Hauling (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a family moves into a new place
  3. Tile & Stone Contractor (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel
  4. Property Manager (Residential) (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a family moves into a new place
  5. Residential Cleaning (Two-way)
    Shared trigger: a family moves into a new place

The three rooms to be in

  1. Local Facebook & community groups: Your partners are in this room: storage companies, junk removal companies, and residential cleaning companies.
  2. Nextdoor: Your partners are in this room: junk removal companies, residential cleaning companies, and locksmiths.
  3. Distributor & showroom trade nights: Your partners are in this room: tile and stone contractors, interior designers, and window treatment 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 closet and organization 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 Storage Facility They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 67 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Junk Removal & Hauling They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 63 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Tile & Stone Contractor They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 63 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Property Manager (Residential) They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 63 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Residential Cleaning Two-way Trigger: a family moves into a new place 62 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Interior Designer They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 61 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Moving Company They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 61 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Locksmith They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 61 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Window Treatments Two-way Trigger: a family moves into a new place 59 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Handyman Two-way Trigger: a family moves into a new place 58 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 Local Facebook & community groups Your pick Your partners are in this room: storage companies, junk removal companies, and residential cleaning companies. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 Nextdoor Your partners are in this room: junk removal companies, residential cleaning companies, and locksmiths. Online community · Always on · Free · ~2 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 Distributor & showroom trade nights Your partners are in this room: tile and stone contractors, interior designers, and window treatment companies. Vendor & supply chain · Quarterly · Free · ~2 hrs/month
  4. 4 Rotary International No referral mechanics at all, which is why the trust runs deep. Business follows in year two, not month two. Community & service organization · Weekly · Under $500/yr · ~6 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 Kiwanis No referral mechanics at all, which is why the trust runs deep. Business follows in year two, not month two. Community & service organization · Every other week · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 Lions Clubs International No referral mechanics at all, which is why the trust runs deep. Business follows in year two, not month two. Community & service organization · Every other week · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  7. 7 Faith-based and cultural community organizations No referral mechanics at all, which is why the trust runs deep. Business follows in year two, not month two. Community & service organization · Informal · Free · ~4 hrs/month
  8. 8 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 →

Let us be straight with you. For closet and organization 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 ↑

Your seat

Is your seat open?

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

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