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Digital Marketing Agency: 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 digital marketing agencies, the next meeting dates, and who to ask for when you walk in.

Your top referral sources
  1. Graphic Designer
  2. Bookkeeper
  3. Business Banker
  4. Attorney Intellectual Property
  5. Attorney Business & Corporate
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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: Digital Marketing Agency

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Graphic Designer (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a business launches or rebrands
  2. Bookkeeper (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody starts a company
  3. Business Banker (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody starts a company
  4. Attorney Intellectual Property (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a business launches or rebrands
  5. Attorney Business & Corporate (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody starts a company

The three rooms to be in

  1. LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities: Your partners are in this room: graphic designers, bookkeepers, and business bankers.
  2. Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: graphic designers, bookkeepers, and business bankers.
  3. Software & platform user groups: Your partners are in this room: bookkeepers, IT and managed service providers, and medical billing companies.
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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 digital marketing agencies, 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 Graphic Designer They send you work Trigger: a business launches or rebrands 74 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Bookkeeper They send you work Trigger: somebody starts a company 70 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Business Banker They send you work Trigger: somebody starts a company 69 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Attorney Intellectual Property They send you work Trigger: a business launches or rebrands 69 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Attorney Business & Corporate They send you work Trigger: somebody starts a company 68 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 IT Services / Managed IT They send you work Trigger: somebody starts a company 68 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Merchant Services / Payment Processing Two-way Trigger: somebody starts a company 67 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 CPA / Accountant They send you work Trigger: somebody starts a company 67 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Insurance Property & Casualty They send you work Trigger: somebody starts a company 65 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Medical Billing & Practice Management They send you work Trigger: somebody starts a company 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 LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities Your pick Your partners are in this room: graphic designers, bookkeepers, and business bankers. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: graphic designers, bookkeepers, and business bankers. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 Software & platform user groups Your partners are in this room: bookkeepers, IT and managed service providers, and medical billing companies. Vendor & supply chain · Quarterly · Free · ~2 hrs/month
  4. 4 Vistage Your partners are in this room: business bankers, business attorneys, and IT and managed service providers. Paid peer group · Monthly · $2,000+/yr · ~8 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 State CPA society Your partners are in this room: bookkeepers and CPAs. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 State bar practice sections Your partners are in this room: IP attorneys and business attorneys. Your partners' association · Quarterly · Under $500/yr · ~2 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  7. 7 EO (Entrepreneurs' Organization) Your partners are in this room: IP attorneys and business attorneys. Paid peer group · Monthly · $2,000+/yr · ~8 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  8. 8 NAWBO (women business owners) Your partners are in this room: graphic designers and bookkeepers. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →

Let us be straight with you. For digital marketing agencies, 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.

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