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Shredding & Document Management: 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 shredding and records companies, 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: Shredding & Document Management

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Commercial Property Manager (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands
  2. Facility Manager (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands
  3. Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands
  4. IT Services / Managed IT (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands
  5. Cybersecurity (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands

The three rooms to be in

  1. LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities: Your partners are in this room: facility managers, IT and managed service providers, and cybersecurity firms.
  2. Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: commercial property managers, community association managers, and IT and managed service providers.
  3. Software & platform user groups: Your partners are in this room: facility managers and IT and managed service providers.
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 shredding and records companies, 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: an inspection or compliance deadline lands 83 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Facility Manager They send you work Trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands 83 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) They send you work Trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands 77 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 IT Services / Managed IT They send you work Trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands 76 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Cybersecurity They send you work Trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands 76 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Commercial Kitchen Equipment & Service They send you work Trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands 75 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 HR Consulting / PEO They send you work Trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands 74 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Restaurant / Food Service They send you work Trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands 73 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Business Banker They send you work Trigger: an owner sells the company 73 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Attorney Employment & Labor Two-way Trigger: an inspection or compliance deadline lands 68 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 LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities Your pick Your partners are in this room: facility managers, IT and managed service providers, and cybersecurity firms. 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: commercial property managers, community association managers, and IT and managed service providers. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 Software & platform user groups Your partners are in this room: facility managers and IT and managed service providers. Vendor & supply chain · Quarterly · Free · ~2 hrs/month
  4. 4 IT channel & MSP peer associations Your partners are in this room: IT and managed service providers and cybersecurity firms. Your partners' association · Quarterly · $2,000+/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 Restaurant & lodging association Your partners are in this room: commercial kitchen equipment companies and restaurants. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 Vistage Your partners are in this room: IT and managed service providers, HR consultants and PEOs, and business bankers. Paid peer group · Monthly · $2,000+/yr · ~8 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  7. 7 CAI (Community Associations Institute) Your partner is in this room: community association managers. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  8. 8 CAI chapter trade show & expo Your partner is in this room: community association managers. Event or trade show · Annual · $500–$2,000/yr · ~2 hrs/month Chapter finder →

Let us be straight with you. For shredding and records companies, 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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