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Interior Designer: 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 interior designers, the next meeting dates, and who to ask for when you walk in.

Your top referral sources
  1. Architect
  2. Remodeling Contractor
  3. Attorney Real Estate
  4. Insurance Property & Casualty
  5. IT Services / Managed IT
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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: Interior Designer

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Architect (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel
  2. Remodeling Contractor (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel
  3. Attorney Real Estate (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody buys a house
  4. Insurance Property & Casualty (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody buys a house
  5. IT Services / Managed IT (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location

The three rooms to be in

  1. Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: remodeling contractors, P&C insurance agents, and IT and managed service providers.
  2. Local home builders association (NAHB affiliate): Your partners are in this room: architects and general contractors.
  3. NARI (National Association of the Remodeling Industry): Your partners are in this room: remodeling contractors and general contractors.
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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 interior designers, 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 Architect They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 69 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Remodeling Contractor They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 68 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Attorney Real Estate They send you work Trigger: somebody buys a house 66 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Insurance Property & Casualty They send you work Trigger: somebody buys a house 65 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 IT Services / Managed IT They send you work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 63 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 General Contractor Two-way Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 62 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Commercial Property Manager They send you work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 62 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Electrician Two-way Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 61 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Property Manager (Residential) They send you work Trigger: somebody buys a house 61 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) Two-way Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 61 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 city or county chamber of commerce Your pick Your partners are in this room: remodeling contractors, P&C insurance agents, and IT and managed service providers. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 Local home builders association (NAHB affiliate) Your partners are in this room: architects and general contractors. Your partners' association · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 NARI (National Association of the Remodeling Industry) Your partners are in this room: remodeling contractors and general contractors. Your partners' association · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 Distributor & showroom trade nights Your partners are in this room: architects and remodeling contractors. Vendor & supply chain · Quarterly · Free · ~2 hrs/month
  5. 5 AIA (American Institute of Architects) chapter Your partners are in this room: architects and general contractors. Your partners' association · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 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 →
  7. 7 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 →
  8. 8 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 →

Let us be straight with you. For interior designers, 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 ↑

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

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