What To Say To Get Referrals: Communicate for Succeess

The Members who report the most We Did Business slips are consistent: they schedule a weekly 1:1  with every Member, then go right around the table and repeat.

What tool do you use to track this type of 1:1 networking activity? 

  • Calendar?
  • Spreadsheet?
  • CRM?
  • INTROMinute and 7-Minute schedule?
Kevin Ames he/him

Response from Kevin Ames he/him

from the Emory Team

I live by my calendar for scheduling meetings with PowerCore members and clients, too. I keep a list of who I've met with and when and use it to schedule additional meetings. I sub on other teams so I schedule a meeting with a member from each of those teams after I have attended the meeting.

Ben Ragin

Response from Ben Ragin

from the Brookhaven Team

I make it a point request coffee one person on my team once a week. Over time this allows me to meet with everyone. I cross reference my calendar to see when was the last time we met. This usually works out to meeting with each individual every 3-4 months. 

Greg McCahan

Response from Greg McCahan

I use my calendar with appointments for coffee, lunch and after hours meetings throughout the month.  We've got great choices to meet right around my office.

 

Stacie Conner

Response from Stacie Conner

from the Brookhaven Team

I look at the Agenda each week to see who I haven't met with in a while and invite them to breakfast or lunch. I try to invite one member each week in addition to subs and visitors.

Mark Galvin

Response from Mark Galvin

I track this activity on my Remarkable2. It's a quick note on a copy of the agenda that tracks coffees.

Steve Perry, EA

Response from Steve Perry, EA

I use a spreadsheet. Like 7-minute scheduling calendar conflict are more of a challenge than who.

Marc Apple

Response from Marc Apple

I use my calendar to keep track of my coffees, lunches, and happy hours. I can easily see who I have met with and who I need to meet.

Austin Miller

Response from Austin Miller

from the Brookhaven Team

I use our team agenda and go down the list weekly. If there's a certain member I'd like to connect with outside of my rotation, I'll schedule them next on the list. 

Liz Bankston

Response from Liz Bankston

My favorite is the calendar to schedule meetings with our members. The most effective is to meet directly after our team meeting, even if only for five minutes, to catch up on referrrals passed to one another. My other favorite is to schedule on the calendar one day of stacked appointments, which are meetings on the hour and consecutively one after the other; this way the people I am meeting with also get to make a connection to the others on the hello and goodbye overlaps making this a win for all parties!

Alexander Christensen

Response from Alexander Christensen

I use my calendar to track coffee with team members. I typically look to schedule coffee with someone I haven't met with in a while or someone new to the team. 

Ben Levy

Response from Ben Levy

from the Brookhaven Team

So far, my only referrals have come from two people on the team, so it is easy enough to track mentally, especially since the cases they sent me are still ongoing. My firm also has software for new client intake where we can record the source of the case referral. 

Taylor Chastain

Response from Taylor Chastain

from the Whitlock Avenue Team

I use a spreadsheet with my team members names on it to track who I have had coffee with and when. I make sure I have had coffee with everyone before asking someone for a second coffee.

When subbing, I have a master list of all my gate openers who are in Powercore. I track my coffees with gate openers specifically on other teams so that I know who I need to talk to first when I sub. 

Tom Wallace

Response from Tom Wallace

from the Peachtree City Team

My calendar is what I use to keep track of my schedule.  I also have a simple spreadsheet to keep track with who I've met with and when, so I can continue around the table and have meetings with everyone.

Dr. Lorna Diaz

Response from Dr. Lorna Diaz

At first, I liked using the weekly team's agenda noting keywords from intro minutes under each member. Combining it with the calendar app on my phone works best now. It allows me to sync events from multiple email accounts while being very user-friendly and easy for tracking team and one-on-one meetings. 

Codey Hart

Response from Codey Hart

As a newer member of Powercore I was initally focused on meeting with the members whose businesses I thought would synergize best with my own. However, as I've grown in Powercore I've come to realize that one never knows where a referral can come from. The person at the table who you initially feel may have the least connection to your business could very well have a personal connection to your best gate opener or client. I was using a calender to track to coffees. I'm going to switch over to using the meeting schedule to make sure that my time and energy is divided equally. 

Ted McGee

Response from Ted McGee

from the Brookhaven Team

I utilize my Database spreadsheet. There is a specific Powercore tab (broken out by team affiliation) where I track coffee dates to ensure that I am spending time with each member of my team (as well as substitutes and visitors). While I do utilize a company CRM, this spreadsheet allows me to be more deliberate in the information I track (referrals to, from, notes, etc.). 

Dr. Tracey Huffman

Response from Dr. Tracey Huffman

I use my google calendar, which I use for everything. I have two other outside calendars in software for the office that sync up real time so I always have it handy in one place. I also keep my referral slips that I've "used" in the back of my roster book.