Commercial Kitchen Equipment & Service: 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: Commercial Kitchen Equipment & Service
The five people who should be sending you clients
- Commercial Property Manager (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location - Facility Manager (Two-way)
Shared trigger: the AC dies, a pipe fails, or something in the building stops working - Restaurant / Food Service (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location - Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) (Two-way)
Shared trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands - IT Services / Managed IT (Two-way)
Shared trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location
The three rooms to be in
- Software & platform user groups: Your partners are in this room: facility managers, IT and managed service providers, and bookkeepers.
- Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: commercial property managers, restaurants, and community association managers.
- CAI (Community Associations Institute): Your partners are in this room: community association managers and structural engineers.
- Software & platform user groups: Your partners are in this room: facility managers, IT and managed service providers, and bookkeepers.
- Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: commercial property managers, restaurants, and community association managers.
- CAI Southeast Florida chapter: Your partners are in this room: community association managers and structural engineers.
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 commercial kitchen equipment 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 Commercial Property Manager They send you work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 90 match strength out of 100
- 2 Facility Manager Two-way Trigger: the AC dies, a pipe fails, or something in the building stops working 79 match strength out of 100
- 3 Restaurant / Food Service They send you work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 78 match strength out of 100
- 4 Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) Two-way Trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands 74 match strength out of 100
- 5 IT Services / Managed IT Two-way Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 70 match strength out of 100
- 6 Commercial Real Estate Broker They send you work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 69 match strength out of 100
- 7 Attorney Business & Corporate They send you work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 69 match strength out of 100
- 8 Structural Engineer They send you work Trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands 68 match strength out of 100
- 9 Insurance Property & Casualty Two-way Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 66 match strength out of 100
- 10 Bookkeeper They send you work Trigger: somebody starts a company 66 match strength out of 100
- 1 Shredding & Document Management You send them work Trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands 71 match strength out of 100
- 2 Commercial Janitorial You send them work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 70 match strength out of 100
- 3 IT Services / Managed IT Two-way Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 69 match strength out of 100
- 4 Office Equipment & Copiers You send them work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 69 match strength out of 100
- 5 Restaurant / Food Service They send you work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 67 match strength out of 100
- 6 Septic & Drain Services You send them work Trigger: the AC dies, a pipe fails, or something in the building stops working 65 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 Software & platform user groups Your pick Your partners are in this room: facility managers, IT and managed service providers, and bookkeepers.
- 2 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: commercial property managers, restaurants, and community association managers. Chapter finder →
- 3 CAI (Community Associations Institute) Your partners are in this room: community association managers and structural engineers. Chapter finder →
- 4 LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities Your partners are in this room: facility managers, IT and managed service providers, and commercial real estate brokers. Chapter finder →
- 5 BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association) Your partners are in this room: commercial property managers and commercial real estate brokers. Chapter finder →
- 6 CAI chapter trade show & expo Your partner is in this room: community association managers. Chapter finder →
- 7 Restaurant & lodging association Your partner is in this room: restaurants. Chapter finder →
- 8 IREM (Institute of Real Estate Management) Your partner is in this room: commercial property managers. Chapter finder →
- 1 Software & platform user groups Your pick Your partners are in this room: facility managers, IT and managed service providers, and bookkeepers.
- 2 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: commercial property managers, restaurants, and community association managers. Chapter finder →
- 3 CAI Southeast Florida chapter Your partners are in this room: community association managers and structural engineers. Chapter finder →
- 4 LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities Your partners are in this room: facility managers, IT and managed service providers, and commercial real estate brokers. Chapter finder →
- 5 BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association) Your partners are in this room: commercial property managers and commercial real estate brokers. Chapter finder →
- 6 CAI chapter trade show & expo Your partner is in this room: community association managers. Chapter finder →
- 7 Restaurant & lodging association Your partner is in this room: restaurants. Chapter finder →
- 8 IREM (Institute of Real Estate Management) Your partner is in this room: commercial property managers. Chapter finder →
Let us be straight with you. For commercial kitchen equipment 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 Commercial Kitchen Equipment & Service 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 commercial kitchen equipment companies, and the next meeting dates for your area.
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