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Salon & Barbershop: 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 salons and barbershops, 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: Salon & Barbershop

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Commercial Property Manager (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location
  2. Childcare & Preschool (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a family moves into a new place
  3. Primary Care Physician (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated
  4. Mental Health Therapist (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated
  5. Florist (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event

The three rooms to be in

  1. Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: commercial property managers, primary care practices, and childcare centers and preschools.
  2. Local Facebook & community groups: Your partners are in this room: childcare centers and preschools, therapists and counselors, and florists.
  3. NAWBO (women business owners): Your partners are in this room: childcare centers and preschools, photographers, and med spas.
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 salons and barbershops, 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 Commercial Property Manager They send you work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 68 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Childcare & Preschool They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 66 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Primary Care Physician They send you work Trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated 66 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Mental Health Therapist They send you work Trigger: somebody changes jobs or gets relocated 64 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Florist They send you work Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event 64 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Residential Cleaning They send you work Trigger: a family moves into a new place 61 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Attorney Business & Corporate They send you work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 60 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Photographer They send you work Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event 60 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Dentist Two-way Trigger: a family moves into a new place 58 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Medical Spa / Aesthetics Two-way Trigger: a family plans a wedding or milestone event 57 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: commercial property managers, primary care practices, and childcare centers and preschools. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 Local Facebook & community groups Your partners are in this room: childcare centers and preschools, therapists and counselors, and florists. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 NAWBO (women business owners) Your partners are in this room: childcare centers and preschools, photographers, and med spas. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 Your county medical society Your partner is in this room: primary care practices. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association) Your partner is in this room: commercial property managers. Your partners' association · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 IREM (Institute of Real Estate Management) Your partner is in this room: commercial property managers. Your partners' association · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  7. 7 MGMA (Medical Group Management Association) Your partner is in this room: primary care practices. Your partners' association · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  8. 8 Nextdoor Your partners are in this room: childcare centers and preschools and residential cleaning companies. Online community · Always on · Free · ~2 hrs/month Chapter finder →

Let us be straight with you. For salons and barbershops, 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 Salon & Barbershop per chapter. Put a South Florida ZIP into the form above and we will show you which seats are open.

Add your ZIP code in the form above to see which seats are open. Go to the form ↑

Want this as a list you can act on?

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

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