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Painting 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 painters, 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: Painting Contractor

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. Property Manager (Residential) (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a family moves into a new place
  3. Drywall & Stucco Contractor (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel
  4. Home Inspector (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody puts a house on the market
  5. Junk Removal & Hauling (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody puts a house on the market

The three rooms to be in

  1. Your local Realtor board or association: Your partners are in this room: residential real estate agents, home inspectors, and real estate attorneys.
  2. Local Facebook & community groups: Your partners are in this room: residential real estate agents, home inspectors, and junk removal companies.
  3. Commercial contractors association (AGC / ABC): Your partners are in this room: drywall and stucco contractors and HVAC contractors.
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 painters, 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 73 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Property Manager (Residential) They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 65 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Drywall & Stucco Contractor They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 62 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Home Inspector They send you work Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 62 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Junk Removal & Hauling They send you work Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 61 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 HVAC Contractor They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 60 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Insurance Property & Casualty They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 60 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Attorney Real Estate Two-way Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 60 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Staffing / Recruiting They send you work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 60 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Flooring Contractor Two-way Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 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, home inspectors, and real estate attorneys. 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, home inspectors, and junk removal companies. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 Commercial contractors association (AGC / ABC) Your partners are in this room: drywall and stucco contractors and HVAC contractors. Your partners' association · Monthly · $2,000+/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 Nextdoor Your partners are in this room: residential real estate agents, junk removal companies, and HVAC contractors. Online community · Always on · Free · ~2 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities Your partners are in this room: residential real estate agents, residential property managers, and P&C insurance agents. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: residential real estate agents, residential property managers, and HVAC contractors. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 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 painters, 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 Painting 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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