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Handyman: 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 handyman services, 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: Handyman

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Property Manager (Residential) (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a family moves into a new place
  2. Real Estate Agent (Residential) (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody puts a house on the market
  3. Facility Manager (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: the AC dies, a pipe fails, or something in the building stops working
  4. Moving Company (Two-way)
    Shared trigger: a family moves into a new place
  5. Home Inspector (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody buys a house

The three rooms to be in

  1. Your local Realtor board or association: Your partners are in this room: residential real estate agents and home inspectors.
  2. Local Facebook & community groups: Your partners are in this room: residential real estate agents, movers, and home inspectors.
  3. IREM (Institute of Real Estate Management): Your partners are in this room: residential property managers and commercial property managers.
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 handyman services, 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 Property Manager (Residential) They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 71 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Real Estate Agent (Residential) They send you work Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 67 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Facility Manager They send you work Trigger: the AC dies, a pipe fails, or something in the building stops working 66 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Moving Company Two-way Trigger: a family moves into a new place 63 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Home Inspector They send you work Trigger: somebody buys a house 63 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Commercial Property Manager They send you work Trigger: the AC dies, a pipe fails, or something in the building stops working 63 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 HVAC Contractor They send you work Trigger: somebody buys a house 62 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Painting Contractor They send you work Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 60 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Primary Care Physician They send you work Trigger: an aging parent needs a different living situation 60 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Residential Cleaning Two-way Trigger: a family moves into a new place 59 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 and home inspectors. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 Local Facebook & community groups Your partners are in this room: residential real estate agents, movers, and home inspectors. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 IREM (Institute of Real Estate Management) Your partners are in this room: residential property managers and commercial property managers. Your partners' association · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~4 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 handyman services, 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 Handyman per chapter. Put a South Florida ZIP into the form above and we will show you which seats are open.

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Want this as a list you can act on?

Send it to yourself: the partners above, the rooms ranked for handyman services, and the next meeting dates for your area.

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