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Private Investigator: 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 private investigators, the next meeting dates, and who to ask for when you walk in.

Your top referral sources
  1. Attorney Business & Corporate
  2. Attorney Employment & Labor
  3. Mental Health Therapist
  4. Attorney Construction & Property Defect
  5. Attorney Real Estate
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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: Private Investigator

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Attorney Business & Corporate (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets sued
  2. Attorney Employment & Labor (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets sued
  3. Mental Health Therapist (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a marriage ends
  4. Attorney Construction & Property Defect (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets sued
  5. Attorney Real Estate (Two-way)
    Shared trigger: somebody gets sued

The three rooms to be in

  1. State bar practice sections: Your partners are in this room: business attorneys, employment attorneys, and construction attorneys.
  2. Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: business attorneys, employment attorneys, and therapists and counselors.
  3. CAI (Community Associations Institute): Your partners are in this room: construction attorneys and community association managers.
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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 private investigators, 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 Attorney Business & Corporate They send you work Trigger: somebody gets sued 78 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Attorney Employment & Labor They send you work Trigger: somebody gets sued 74 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Mental Health Therapist They send you work Trigger: a marriage ends 68 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Attorney Construction & Property Defect They send you work Trigger: somebody gets sued 67 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Attorney Real Estate Two-way Trigger: somebody gets sued 64 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 CPA / Accountant Two-way Trigger: a marriage ends 63 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Bookkeeper They send you work Trigger: a business puts its first employee on payroll 63 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) Two-way Trigger: somebody gets sued 61 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 HR Consulting / PEO They send you work Trigger: somebody gets sued 60 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Insurance Property & Casualty Two-way Trigger: somebody gets sued 59 match strength out of 100

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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 State bar practice sections Your pick Your partners are in this room: business attorneys, employment attorneys, and construction attorneys. Your partners' association · Quarterly · Under $500/yr · ~2 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: business attorneys, employment attorneys, and therapists and counselors. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 CAI (Community Associations Institute) Your partners are in this room: construction attorneys and community association managers. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities Your partners are in this room: business attorneys, employment attorneys, and CPAs. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 State CPA society Your partners are in this room: CPAs and bookkeepers. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 Vistage Your partners are in this room: business attorneys, CPAs, and HR consultants and PEOs. Paid peer group · Monthly · $2,000+/yr · ~8 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  7. 7 Your local Realtor board or association Your partner is in this room: real estate attorneys. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  8. 8 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 →

Let us be straight with you. For private investigators, 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.

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