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Water & Storm Damage Restoration: 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 restoration contractors, 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: Water & Storm Damage Restoration

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking
  2. Insurance Property & Casualty (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking
  3. Commercial Property Manager (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking
  4. Facility Manager (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking
  5. Public Adjuster (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking

The three rooms to be in

  1. CAI (Community Associations Institute): Your partners are in this room: community association managers and public adjusters.
  2. CAI chapter trade show & expo: Your partners are in this room: community association managers and public adjusters.
  3. Independent Insurance Agents (Big I): Your partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents and public adjusters.
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 restoration contractors, 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 Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 88 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Insurance Property & Casualty They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 86 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Commercial Property Manager They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 84 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Facility Manager They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 83 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Public Adjuster They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 78 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Property Manager (Residential) Two-way Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 74 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Plumber Two-way Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 70 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Roofing Contractor Two-way Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 67 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Septic & Drain Services Two-way Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 64 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Restaurant / Food Service They send you work Trigger: the AC dies, a pipe fails, or something in the building stops working 63 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 CAI (Community Associations Institute) Your pick Your partners are in this room: community association managers and public adjusters. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 CAI chapter trade show & expo Your partners are in this room: community association managers and public adjusters. Event or trade show · Annual · $500–$2,000/yr · ~2 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 Independent Insurance Agents (Big I) Your partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents and public adjusters. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: community association managers, P&C insurance agents, and commercial property managers. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 IREM (Institute of Real Estate Management) Your partners are in this room: commercial property managers and residential property managers. Your partners' association · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities Your partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, facility managers, and residential property managers. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  7. 7 Software & platform user groups Your partner is in this room: facility managers. Vendor & supply chain · Quarterly · Free · ~2 hrs/month
  8. 8 Manufacturer training & certification days Your partners are in this room: plumbers and roofers. Vendor & supply chain · Quarterly · Free · ~3 hrs/month

Let us be straight with you. For restoration contractors, 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 Water & Storm Damage Restoration per chapter. Put a South Florida ZIP into the form above and we will show you which seats are open.

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