Today I went to an Amspirit meeting and had a wonderful time. Everyone was welcoming and engaged with getting to know one another and genuinely interested in helping everyone. It was a pleasant way to start the morning. We will be adding the chapter members to our list of Local Partners that will cover a variety of services, in the near future. I can't wait to have these businesses and more importantly people on board with the The Advanced Handyman team of Local Partners for our customers. So be on the look out for the new Local Partners. The list is growing rapidly each day. Cory will be a busy bee getting all of the information on the site!
During our meeting today, Duff played a little game with our business cards that brought up a good point that I wanted to share. He passed out two business cards to everyone and on the back of them we had to write a compliment(s) about that person. After we handed them back, he read the comments aloud and you had to guess you made that comment about you. It was interesting to see who could guess correctly just by what they other person said about them. But main point for this game was to provide you with insite as to wether you knew the person well or not. If you knew them well, you had a lot to say. If you didn't, the message was short. So if you're referring another business or service to your clients, take the time to not only get to know what the business does, but the person that will be working with your clients. For me, getting to know the person is more important than the service itself. When you speak about your referral business in a complimentary way, it gives you the confidence in referring your clients to them and allows your clients to be more comfortable with them too. So don't be afraid to open up and get a little personal with the businesses and people that you work with.
