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Sign Company: 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 sign 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: Sign Company

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. Digital Marketing Agency (Two-way)
    Shared trigger: a business launches or rebrands
  3. Commercial Real Estate Broker (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location
  4. Attorney Business & Corporate (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location
  5. Attorney Intellectual Property (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a business launches or rebrands

The three rooms to be in

  1. Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: commercial property managers, commercial real estate brokers, and digital marketing agencies.
  2. LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities: Your partners are in this room: commercial real estate brokers, digital marketing agencies, and business attorneys.
  3. EO (Entrepreneurs' Organization): Your partners are in this room: digital marketing agencies, business attorneys, and IP attorneys.
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 sign 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: a business signs a lease or opens a location 80 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Digital Marketing Agency Two-way Trigger: a business launches or rebrands 71 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Commercial Real Estate Broker They send you work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 71 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Attorney Business & Corporate They send you work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 70 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Attorney Intellectual Property They send you work Trigger: a business launches or rebrands 70 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 IT Services / Managed IT Two-way Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 69 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Restaurant / Food Service They send you work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 69 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Commercial Kitchen Equipment & Service They send you work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 69 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Insurance Property & Casualty They send you work Trigger: a business signs a lease or opens a location 68 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Graphic Designer They send you work Trigger: a business launches or rebrands 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 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your pick Your partners are in this room: commercial property managers, commercial real estate brokers, and digital marketing agencies. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities Your partners are in this room: commercial real estate brokers, digital marketing agencies, and business attorneys. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 EO (Entrepreneurs' Organization) Your partners are in this room: digital marketing agencies, business attorneys, and IP attorneys. Paid peer group · Monthly · $2,000+/yr · ~8 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 Industry Slack & Discord communities Your partners are in this room: digital marketing agencies and IP attorneys. Online community · Always on · Free · ~2 hrs/month
  5. 5 BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association) Your partners are in this room: commercial property managers and commercial real estate brokers. Your partners' association · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 Vistage Your partners are in this room: digital marketing agencies, business attorneys, and IT and managed service providers. Paid peer group · Monthly · $2,000+/yr · ~8 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  7. 7 Local business expo Your partners are in this room: digital marketing agencies, restaurants, and graphic designers. Event or trade show · Annual · Under $500/yr · ~1 hrs/month
  8. 8 Restaurant & lodging association Your partners are in this room: restaurants and commercial kitchen equipment companies. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →

Let us be straight with you. For sign 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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Prime Time takes one Sign Company per chapter. Put a South Florida ZIP into the form above and we will show you which seats are open.

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