Smart Home & AV Integrator: 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.
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: Smart Home & AV Integrator
The five people who should be sending you clients
- Interior Designer (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel - Electrician (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel - Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel - General Contractor (They send you work)
Shared trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel - Security Systems (Two-way)
Shared trigger: somebody buys a house
The three rooms to be in
- Local home builders association (NAHB affiliate): Your partners are in this room: interior designers, general contractors, and cabinet and countertop companies.
- Commercial contractors association (AGC / ABC): Your partners are in this room: electricians, general contractors, and plumbers.
- Distributor & showroom trade nights: Your partners are in this room: interior designers, window and door installers, and remodeling contractors.
- Local home builders association (NAHB affiliate): Your partners are in this room: interior designers, general contractors, and cabinet and countertop companies.
- Commercial contractors association (AGC / ABC): Your partners are in this room: electricians, general contractors, and plumbers.
- Distributor & showroom trade nights: Your partners are in this room: interior designers, window and door installers, and remodeling contractors.
Who should be sending you clients
Who you should be sending clients to
Ranked by what starts the job, not by who sounds close to your trade. When something happens that makes people need smart home and AV integrators, who else gets a call that same week?
The same list, turned around. Give first and the rest follows.
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 Interior Designer They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 80 match strength out of 100
- 2 Electrician They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 68 match strength out of 100
- 3 Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 68 match strength out of 100
- 4 General Contractor They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 66 match strength out of 100
- 5 Security Systems Two-way Trigger: somebody buys a house 65 match strength out of 100
- 6 Plumber They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 65 match strength out of 100
- 7 Window & Door Installer They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 65 match strength out of 100
- 8 Remodeling Contractor They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 65 match strength out of 100
- 9 Cabinetry & Countertops They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 64 match strength out of 100
- 10 Residential Cleaning They send you work Trigger: somebody buys a house 63 match strength out of 100
- 1 Concrete & Paver Contractor Two-way Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 63 match strength out of 100
- 2 Interior Designer They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 62 match strength out of 100
- 3 Cabinetry & Countertops They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 62 match strength out of 100
- 4 Solar Energy Contractor Two-way Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 61 match strength out of 100
- 5 Window Treatments Two-way Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 60 match strength out of 100
- 6 Tile & Stone Contractor Two-way Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 60 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 ↑
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 Local home builders association (NAHB affiliate) Your pick Your partners are in this room: interior designers, general contractors, and cabinet and countertop companies. Chapter finder →
- 2 Commercial contractors association (AGC / ABC) Your partners are in this room: electricians, general contractors, and plumbers. Chapter finder →
- 3 Distributor & showroom trade nights Your partners are in this room: interior designers, window and door installers, and remodeling contractors.
- 4 AIA (American Institute of Architects) chapter Your partners are in this room: interior designers and general contractors. Chapter finder →
- 5 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: electricians, community association managers, and general contractors. Chapter finder →
- 6 NARI (National Association of the Remodeling Industry) Your partners are in this room: general contractors and remodeling contractors. Chapter finder →
- 7 Supply house counter days & contractor breakfasts Your partners are in this room: electricians, general contractors, and plumbers.
- 8 BNI One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Chapter finder →
- 1 Local home builders association (NAHB affiliate) Your pick Your partners are in this room: interior designers, general contractors, and cabinet and countertop companies. Chapter finder →
- 2 Commercial contractors association (AGC / ABC) Your partners are in this room: electricians, general contractors, and plumbers. Chapter finder →
- 3 Distributor & showroom trade nights Your partners are in this room: interior designers, window and door installers, and remodeling contractors.
- 4 AIA (American Institute of Architects) chapter Your partners are in this room: interior designers and general contractors. Chapter finder →
- 5 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: electricians, community association managers, and general contractors. Chapter finder →
- 6 NARI (National Association of the Remodeling Industry) Your partners are in this room: general contractors and remodeling contractors. Chapter finder →
- 7 Supply house counter days & contractor breakfasts Your partners are in this room: electricians, general contractors, and plumbers.
- 8 Prime Time Business Network One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. See chapters →
Let us be straight with you. For smart home and AV integrators, 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 ↑
Is your seat open?
Prime Time takes one Smart Home & AV Integrator 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 ↑
Prime Time doesn't operate where you are yet.
We have chapters across South Florida and none near you. Telling you to join would be bad advice. The rooms above are the real answer where you are. We can email you the one page version and let you know if we open near you.
Send me those roomsWant this as a list you can act on?
Send it to yourself: the partners above, the rooms ranked for smart home and AV integrators, and the next meeting dates for your area.
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