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Dear friends and associates:
Many of you have asked me how to make new contacts to
sell your products and services. As always, I
have told you the very best way to meet new business
contacts is to network, network, network.
Of course we are excited about showing you 100's of
different ways to network every day to generate business
leads, but now I am also very pleased to invite
you to join us in a virtual version of a referral network!
What
you need to know about the new virtual referral groups:
Our network allows you to:
1. Meet online with fellow business owners.
2. Talk about your business.
3. Show off your web site.
4. Give and receive referrals.
Then you simply follow up with the leads given to you
to make your sales.
Read a press release here
that explains it further.
Our
virtual network is like any other network or leads group,
but we meet and communicate through the Internet instead
of meeting at a restaurant for our meetings.
We use a revolutionary service called
voice conference rooms that allow us to meet online,
share our business web sites, live voice conversations
and give and receive referrals. We can even record the
meetings for members who cannot attend.
This system also gives you a reason to contact virtually
every business in your city to make new contacts and
new friends. I'll explain more about that in a minute.
How to join our referral group:
We accept one representative from
each zip code for respective business type - e.g. banker,
car salesperson, financial consultant. If you would
like to join our group, please do the following.
1. Submit
your information for our review.
2. Visit
our online calendar to find a meeting in your area.
We will contact you and let you know if you will be
one of our members listed here. Thank you.
What we do:
We
meet 1-3 times per week through our virtual office here
on the Internet. Once in the room we learn about each
other, our businesses, what type of leads we need for
our business, and most importantly, we exchange leads
with all the members.
Here are the specific steps each meeting will take.
1. Interested parties log into the community room that
represents their zip code. The goal is to have one person
present from every industry. For example, each group
will have one accountant, one web site developer, one
insurance agent, one tax advisor, one carpet sales company,
etc. That way, we have up to 35 different businesses
represented.
2. The meeting is called to order.
3. New members are introduced and welcomed.
4. An informal networking period allows member to "Mill
about the room," and meet the other members of the group
for networking purposes. This lasts 10 minutes.
5. Each person takes a turn to stand up (takes control
of the microphone and web browser) and talk about his/her
business for 1-5 minutes. The speaker can show a power
point presentation or even take all member to their
web page to show off products or services or sign members
up for a free newsletter or whatever.
6. New members have an opportunity to talk about their
business, and what
type of business referrals they desire for their business.
7. Each person gives their referrals to other members
for the day.
8. A guest speaker talks about his topic of expertise.
This could be his business or a presentation on how
to increase business or other business related topics.
Again, presentations can be a voice presentation, a
voice presentation with visits to web pages on the Internet,
or even power point presentations.
9. A question and answer session about the virtual referral
network is offered.
10. The next meeting is scheduled.
11. The meeting is adjourned until the next meeting
is called.
What you need to participate:
- Access to the Internet.
- Speakers to listen to the meeting.
- A microphone to talk to the rest of the members.
Again, in addition to the convenience of meeting from
your home or office computer, you will:
Save time.
Save gas to travel.
Save expense of a meal.
Save the tip for the meal at the meeting.
Be able to be as casual as you like. Best of all, because
everyone saves the time of traveling, you can spend
more time talking about your respective business, how
to build more paying business for your businesses, and
to make more referrals
Come join us!
PS: Remember, because our network is virtual, there
is not traveling expense or geographical limitations
on who you can invite to be a speaker.
Best regards,
John Davin
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