NYC Elevate is a million dollar a month networking community organized to help our members make more money through structured collaboration and referrals.
Last week I reported $410,000 in closed business with 234 line items on that report.
And many of you asked me for the secret of my networking success.
So I did a deeper dive into my numbers, and came up with the stat that is the biggest driver of my closed business.
That number is 13.5.
13.5 years.
That’s how long I’ve been in the chapter.
And it turns out that 90% of my closed business is attributed to a referral that happened in one of my first 12 years in Elevate with the ongoing revenue that these clients spend with me each and every month, while 10% was attributed to referrals made in the last year.
And by comparison, I only made $25,000 in my first year. So the key takeaways here are…
In networking, building relationships, consistency and longevity matters much more than you can ever imagine.
That you should have a way to service your clients for many years to increase the ROI on the hardest task in business – client acquisition.
If you do these things consistently for many years in a row, I guarantee that you will make more money.
