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Home Stager: 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 home stagers, 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: Home Stager

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Real Estate Agent (Residential) (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody puts a house on the market
  2. Financial Advisor (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody dies and an estate has to be settled
  3. Title Company (Two-way)
    Shared trigger: somebody puts a house on the market
  4. Attorney Real Estate (Two-way)
    Shared trigger: somebody puts a house on the market
  5. Attorney Estate Planning & Probate (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody dies and an estate has to be settled

The three rooms to be in

  1. Your local Realtor board or association: Your partners are in this room: residential real estate agents, title companies, and real estate attorneys.
  2. Your local estate planning council: Your partners are in this room: financial advisors, estate planning attorneys, and CPAs.
  3. Land title association: Your partners are in this room: title companies, real estate attorneys, and appraisers.
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 home stagers, 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 Real Estate Agent (Residential) They send you work Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 83 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Financial Advisor They send you work Trigger: somebody dies and an estate has to be settled 68 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Title Company Two-way Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 67 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Attorney Real Estate Two-way Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 64 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Attorney Estate Planning & Probate They send you work Trigger: somebody dies and an estate has to be settled 64 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Junk Removal & Hauling Two-way Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 63 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Real Estate Investor Two-way Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 61 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Real Estate Appraiser They send you work Trigger: somebody dies and an estate has to be settled 60 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 CPA / Accountant They send you work Trigger: somebody dies and an estate has to be settled 60 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Home Health Care They send you work Trigger: an aging parent needs a different living situation 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, title companies, and real estate attorneys. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 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 →
  3. 3 Land title association Your partners are in this room: title companies, real estate attorneys, and appraisers. Your partners' association · Quarterly · Under $500/yr · ~2 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 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: residential real estate agents, financial advisors, and title companies. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 Local mortgage bankers or brokers association Your partners are in this room: title companies and appraisers. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 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 home stagers, 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

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

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