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Photographer: 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 photographers, the next meeting dates, and who to ask for when you walk in.

Your top referral sources
  1. Primary Care Physician
  2. Digital Marketing Agency
  3. Jeweler
  4. Home Inspector
  5. Attorney Estate Planning & Probate
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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: Photographer

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Primary Care Physician (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a couple has a child
  2. Digital Marketing Agency (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a business launches or rebrands
  3. Jeweler (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event
  4. Home Inspector (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody puts a house on the market
  5. Attorney Estate Planning & Probate (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a couple has a child

The three rooms to be in

  1. Local Facebook & community groups: Your partners are in this room: jewelers, home inspectors, and real estate investors.
  2. Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: primary care practices, digital marketing agencies, and jewelers.
  3. NAWBO (women business owners): Your partners are in this room: digital marketing agencies, event planners, and childcare centers and preschools.
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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 photographers, 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 Primary Care Physician They send you work Trigger: a couple has a child 69 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Digital Marketing Agency They send you work Trigger: a business launches or rebrands 68 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Jeweler They send you work Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event 68 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Home Inspector They send you work Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 66 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Attorney Estate Planning & Probate They send you work Trigger: a couple has a child 66 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Real Estate Investor They send you work Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 65 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Event Planner Two-way Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event 64 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Florist Two-way Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event 64 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Childcare & Preschool They send you work Trigger: a couple has a child 64 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Home Stager They send you work Trigger: somebody puts a house on the market 63 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 Local Facebook & community groups Your pick Your partners are in this room: jewelers, home inspectors, and real estate investors. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: primary care practices, digital marketing agencies, and jewelers. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 NAWBO (women business owners) Your partners are in this room: digital marketing agencies, event planners, and childcare centers and preschools. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/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 photographers, 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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Prime Time takes one Photographer per chapter. Put a South Florida ZIP into the form above and we will show you which seats are open.

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

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