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Why The FRED67 Business to Business Referral Club.
I’d like to explain how and why this Business to Business Referral Club came about.
All of my working life I have worked as a plasterer/plastering contractor. One of the most common questions I would get asked was did I know of other trades and services I could ‘trust’ and recommend, as finding reliable tradespeople or service providers was very much a guessing game for most people. I used to carry around printed sheets with the names and telephone numbers of my most trusted contacts around in my van and would give them to my customers either when they asked, or when they paid me at the end of the job.
When I first got a website for the business back in 2,000 I put a trusted contacts page on there with the same names and numbers so that visitors could click through to the page to get those trusted referrals.
(There was no charge made, it was a free service that I was glad to give to present and potential customers).
Four years ago I had to give up manual work through health reasons and was left wondering what to do next to make a living. I tried the various online business opportunities that came to nothing, and then I realised that you don’t need to go searching high and low for new opportunities in life, that ‘all you really need’ is usually staring you right in the face. That’s when It occurred to me that Business Referral Clubs have been around for donkey’s years. That business people do ‘pay’ a membership fee to enjoy the definite benefits of membership.
I also noted that most B2B referral clubs were closed shops to ‘members only’, and that if they were opened up to the public to search the contact details with a great deal of confidence it would be a Win-Win situation for both the business members, and the public who are often left wondering just where to turn to get absolutely the best service out there.
As you’ll see when you read on, this is an exclusive membership, I won’t be accepting every Tom-Dick & Harriet into the fold.
(Check the Terms & Conditions).
It is hoped that most of the subscriptions will come from personal recommendations from existing members who have a vested interest in keeping the membership as clean and trustworthy as possible. But if you are reading this and you operate a quality-driven business yourself, dedicated to giving the best possible service to your customers, then you’re more than welcome to apply.
Why FRED67.com ?? ….. Well, my nickname at school was Fred and I left school in 1967 so I thought – “Why Not”?
PLUS!! ….. It’s a very easy name for the public to remember.
