How To Gain Referrals and Customers
One Word
Involvement

Clients are best won through the building of trust.  Trust is built best person to person.  People do business with people.  This is where chambers perform best.  Chambers provide forums, activities and events that help build clients and business partners.  Members involved are not only successful chamber members but also grow their business.  Consider trying the following:

• Meet new businesses, and potential clients at chamber mixers, scrambles, young professional groups, referral groups, sales roundtables, luncheons and box lunch n’ learns.
• Review our website directory and look for power partners.  Remember power partners are natural referral sources.  Build relationships with these people.  Make certain that you give referrals as well as expect them.  A complete list of natural power partners is below.
• Be the main speaker at one of our Box Lunch n’ Learn luncheons.
• Market your business at WINGs, (women’s professional networking group) through development of a knock out commercial and business promotional tools or a low cost sponsorship.
• Gain recognition through being a committee member.
• Be part of a referral group, expanding your sales force by the members of the group. 
• Send press releases to McHenry NOW weekly or McHenry NOW bi-monthly with wide distributions both to the business community and the community at large.
• Put a complimentary ad in our weekly newsletter
• Be part of Hot Deals downloadable website promotions.
• Send a business brief to McHenry NOW newsletter
• Send a memorable gift to a new resident through our New Resident Greeter Program.
• Offer a special deal to other members through the chamber membership savings program
• Have lunch with the chamber staff to review where your business model.  We have a certain expertise in getting businesses launched.  Would love to help yours.
• Build your business through finding those who share your target market or client group.  Meet together to discuss how you can help each other. 
• Most important!  Give referrals as you expect to receive them.