Updated April 16, 2025
Elevate is a million dollar per month, networking community organized to help our members make more money through structured collaboration and referrals.
As you know, one of my favorite analogies is to think of Elevate as a gold mine, and we’ve been learning how to mine that gold in the form of getting quality referrals.
But this week, I want to revisit the most important aspect of Elevate, and it’s not ‘closed business’ or ‘referrals.’
The most important parts of Elevate are our gold miners in the form of our members and our guests.
Why?
Without miners there is no way to get gold from the mine.
Now Elevators, the reason I say that guests are the most important part of Elevate is because each and every one of you was once a guest in this room; and someone thought enough of you to invite you to be here.
And as a guest, you found value in being here that day. So much so, that you wanted to be here every week.
And only because each of you found value in being every week, we have enjoyed 1,700 referrals and $125M in closed business in the last decade.
So that’s why I say that our guests are the most important part of Elevate.
Not because we are actively looking to grow our membership per se, but because we like meeting new people; collaborating with them and sharing our resources.
Finally, as we know evolution has ensured the survival of the fittest, and that’s why the collective DNA of our chapter needs extreme diversity to survive in the dangerous world of networking.
Ok, maybe networking isn’t so dangerous, but it’s still critical for each member to make sure they contribute to the group’s overall success in this regard, and that’s why we have an annual requirement.
Elevtors, I’ll sum this up by asking you to take one moment and reflect on the favor someone did by inviting you to this room, and then your action item this week to pay that forward and invite a guest that could use help in growing their business.
And in the end, if each of us brings one guest and helps them grow their business and make a little more money, I guarantee that we will all make a lot more money!
