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Impact Window & Door Contractor: 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 impact window contractors, 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: Impact Window & Door Contractor

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a named storm comes through
  2. Insurance Property & Casualty (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a named storm comes through
  3. Interior Designer (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel
  4. Structural Engineer (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a named storm comes through
  5. Commercial Property Manager (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a named storm comes through

The three rooms to be in

  1. CAI (Community Associations Institute): Your partners are in this room: community association managers and structural engineers.
  2. AIA (American Institute of Architects) chapter: Your partners are in this room: interior designers and structural engineers.
  3. Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: community association managers, P&C insurance agents, 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 impact window contractors, 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 Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) They send you work Trigger: a named storm comes through 84 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Insurance Property & Casualty They send you work Trigger: a named storm comes through 74 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Interior Designer They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 72 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Structural Engineer They send you work Trigger: a named storm comes through 70 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Commercial Property Manager They send you work Trigger: a named storm comes through 69 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Electrician They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 68 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Tree Service They send you work Trigger: a named storm comes through 68 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Remodeling Contractor They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 66 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Property Manager (Residential) They send you work Trigger: a named storm comes through 66 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Roofing Contractor They send you work Trigger: a named storm comes through 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 ↑

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 CAI (Community Associations Institute) Your pick Your partners are in this room: community association managers and structural engineers. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 AIA (American Institute of Architects) chapter Your partners are in this room: interior designers and structural engineers. Your partners' association · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: community association managers, P&C insurance agents, and commercial property managers. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 IREM (Institute of Real Estate Management) Your partners are in this room: commercial property managers and residential property managers. Your partners' association · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 CAI chapter trade show & expo Your partner is in this room: community association managers. Event or trade show · Annual · $500–$2,000/yr · ~2 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 Distributor & showroom trade nights Your partners are in this room: interior designers and remodeling contractors. Vendor & supply chain · Quarterly · Free · ~2 hrs/month
  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 impact window contractors, 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 Impact Window & Door Contractor per chapter. Put a South Florida ZIP into the form above and we will show you which seats are open.

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