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College Planning & Funding: 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 college planning advisors, the next meeting dates, and who to ask for when you walk in.

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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: College Planning & Funding

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Financial Advisor (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody retires
  2. Primary Care Physician (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated
  3. Mental Health Therapist (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a marriage ends
  4. Real Estate Agent (Residential) (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated
  5. Mortgage Broker / Loan Officer (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated

The three rooms to be in

  1. Your local Realtor board or association: Your partners are in this room: residential real estate agents, mortgage brokers, and real estate attorneys.
  2. Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: financial advisors, primary care practices, and therapists and counselors.
  3. Your local estate planning council: Your partners are in this room: financial advisors, estate planning attorneys, and CPAs.
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 college planning advisors, 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 Financial Advisor They send you work Trigger: somebody retires 72 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Primary Care Physician They send you work Trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated 67 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Mental Health Therapist They send you work Trigger: a marriage ends 66 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Real Estate Agent (Residential) They send you work Trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated 64 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Mortgage Broker / Loan Officer They send you work Trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated 64 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Attorney Estate Planning & Probate They send you work Trigger: somebody retires 64 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Attorney Real Estate They send you work Trigger: a marriage ends 63 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Title Company They send you work Trigger: a marriage ends 61 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Dentist They send you work Trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated 61 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 CPA / Accountant They send you work Trigger: a marriage ends 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 ↑

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: residential real estate agents, mortgage brokers, and real estate attorneys. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: financial advisors, primary care practices, and therapists and counselors. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 Your local estate planning council Your partners are in this room: financial advisors, estate planning attorneys, and CPAs. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 State CPA society Your partners are in this room: financial advisors and CPAs. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 Local mortgage bankers or brokers association Your partners are in this room: mortgage brokers and title companies. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 Land title association Your partners are in this room: real estate attorneys and title companies. Your partners' association · Quarterly · Under $500/yr · ~2 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 college planning advisors, 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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