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Referral workflow

Turn overflow appliance repair calls
into paid referrals.

Turn overflow appliance repair calls into referrals. Watch GuildUSA connect partner schedules, book the job, and track referral fees.

Start with a complimentary account. See plans for automation features.

Watch GuildUSA send overflow jobs to repair partners

Mark walks through the referral system and his own results. Fees follow the partner arrangement.

Mark shows another use for the GuildUSA workflow: send work you cannot take to a trusted repair partner. The receiving shop gets a booked job, and the referring shop can earn a fee.

How appliance repair referrals work in GuildUSA

  1. Set up trusted repair referral partners.

    Work with repair businesses you trust. Agree on the referral arrangement and use each team’s available schedule.

  2. Offer the customer a partner’s open time.

    When your shop is full, the booking flow can show partner availability. The customer chooses a visit and enters the job details.

  3. Put the job on the partner’s calendar.

    The confirmed booking and customer information go to the partner. Both businesses get notices.

  4. Track referral activity and fees.

    Use the dashboard to follow referral activity and fees. Set the fee arrangement with your partner.

Overflow calls and repair referrals transcript

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through The GuildUSA into his calendar as a solo operator of appliance repair business it's nearly impossible to take a day off let alone a sick day or take a vacation with your family when I first opened the business I did everything I could to make that phone ring but once I figured it out I fell into the trap of always having to carry my cell phone and my tablet with me everywhere I went I was walking out of my son's basketball games weddings funerals

I couldn't give up every missed call was like 200 bucks you know how it is if you're a tech my name is Mark I'm the owner of Appliance Repair American in southern Florida and the founder of the GuildUSA dot com to getting the word out about GuildUSA through the GuildUSA I'm now able to take as much time off as I need even go on week or two week long vacations how is this possible you might say well if you own an appliance repair business especially if you're an old guy like me

looking to find a way to take the load off a little bit you want to stay to the end of this video and if you're a young guy looking to increase your business at a lower cost than LSA ads or any other way stay tuned now the first thing you wanna do the easiest thing to do is go to GuildUSA dot com and sign up for a complimentary plan now this is the beginning of automating your entire workflow but you don't need to go to the GuildUSA dot com what you wanna do

is start calling up other local appliance repair guys in your area I know you think these guys might be your competition but they're not they're your brothers nobody can relate to you more and understands your suffering more than your fellow appliance repair guys right the real competitors are lead generators like Google Angie's Yelp I mean Google is basically selling air they can just as much charge 30 cents for a lead as they do $30 but they determine based on supply and demand

what it's worth but it doesn't really cost them much to send you that lead but yet in my area I pay $30 for a Google local service ad lead and on average you know they're not all they're high intent but they're not all the kind of people you want to be going into their homes and a lot of the people like they find out $125 for a diagnostic you kidding me you get a lot of that so it's basically it takes like two 2 to three of those Google LSA leads to convert to a booking

so they average about 75 dollars to land an actual booking that's 60% of my hundred and twenty five dollar diagnostic fee on the first visit and I still haven't paid Uncle Sam we can get Google out of the picture so what you wanna do is call these local guys up and start getting a referral system going with them so I've been doing that for a few years with some guys and we built great relationships they come to barbecues and stuff but I have guys for sealed System specialty

I have guys for just uh dryer vent cleaning I used to do dryer vent cleaning then I had guys I had five guys out there I didn't want my guys on people's roofs so that's when I started getting referrals for those and everybody pays me minimum $45 for a referral on average about $50 for a referral but you know if it's a sealed system you can get even more than that and this allows me to take a day off go on a vacation and I leave my Google business page on as saying open

and through the GuildUSA all the calls are being answered automatically and the whole customer relation thing all the messages are handled automatically even if they call and they hang up they get my booking form and they'll see that my schedule is full it'll look like I'm too busy say if I'm in Mexico with my family right but it will say hey Quality Home Repairs has an opening even today and they'll go and book with them now think again my phone never rang

okay I I got a notification saying hey you just got a 45 dollar referral fee from James with quality home repairs that's all I get I got four of those today the last two weeks UH26 referrals it was like eleven hundred and seventy dollars you know I'm 57 my back hurts I don't want to go on every call I prefer making content and promoting my brand more I have young guys that go out they're on 1099 that we trained up through GuildUSA training program

now as 1090 they go into the GuildUSA app in their phones and they set their own schedule now somebody calls in the AI speaks to them even if they hang up they get a booking form automatically they fill out the booking form when they open it up it'll show them time slots according to my 1099 guys schedule if there's no times available they'll see my referral partner and referral network partners on there and they can pick their times they pick their times I get a notification

the customer gets a notification my referral partner gets the booking it automatically all the information are downloaded right into his hand in the app customer address email phone number what we're talking about here is the referral program so I mean I I I went on like three jobs the other day and I didn't even do much I kind of shuffled a um a a a stacked GE washer unit and you know the all in one unit and um it was the 27 inch one I just walked it a little bit

I didn't bend over or anything and then I moved an oven out and my back was screaming in pain that night so I would prefer cause I'm good at making the phone ring right so I I I have the phone coming in I prefer working on my other endeavors or managing my 1099 guys in the field over going on jobs and if my 1099 guys because by 1099 law they they have to pick their own schedule right and the 1099 they they use their own vehicles I provide them with magnets

I provide them with uniforms and all that but they use their own vehicles they have their own insurance even I extend my insurance a little bit just to be safe but but they have their own insurance as well now their time isn't available it goes over to my referral partner and I collect that 45 and guess what I I on I get 50 on average and that $50 is not much less than I would take if one of my 1099 guys went on it so I mean I don't know about you but you might be 65

and you're thinking about just shutting the business down and you don't but your phone keeps ringing you have an a legacy client list well get on the GuildUSA dot com to get on a referral program within the GuildUSA we'll figure out where you're at we'll get on the phone and call them all one by one until we find at least one for you and two and then your calls will automatically they don't go to their phone they still come to your phone and ring

so you get the customer contact and information in your CRM too but they get shown a booking form that has options with their schedule as well they pick one of their schedule cause cause it looks like you're too busy to take the work cause you're just so popular they pick their time and then everybody gets notified they get their terms of service the customer does from your referral partner your referral partner goes into his schedule it's not in your schedule

you see that it comes up and you see the dollar amount and you see that tally add up but it all gets handled automatically the the estimates the invoices the part ordering everything's done so if you have a a legacy appliance repair business especially if you're a solo guy or if you're just a small team this is absolutely perfect for you because you can get money where you were leaving money on the table maybe your phone's ringing you're you're you're not that old and your phone's ringing

you can take five jobs a day and you have the ability to take on more jobs but you're leaving money on the table because everybody wants same day right so or next day or at least within two days most people unless they have some kind of you know vacation schedule you know you get those odd ends but so you just they just see that there's an availability there and you get paid you don't have to go on a single job and you get paid okay and now instead of your money going to Google

right it's going to the guy your neighbor who's coming to your barbecues right to your bro right your your guild member and nothing works better nothing builds relationships better than grease in the wheels right so go to GuildUSA dot com what are you waiting for if you're an old guy like me and you wanna get up off your knees and lighten the load a little bit I'm sure there's plenty of young guys out there that just started appliance repair business

or been in it for just a couple years that would love to help take the load off your plate and you still get paid they're getting um your referred jobs these aren't leads these are actual bookings so instead of paying $30 $40 $60 $75 $90 for a lead what are these these Yelp leads are stupid expensive and they don't even work you call them up and the person's already gone these are actual bookings OK and it's seamless it's all automated you get notifications

you get all the data points in your metrics on in your dashboard on the GuildUSA and so you can track your money you have a call hub I have a call hub in GuildUSA every call that comes through has a transcript um a recording so they're all the recordings that you just press the play and you hear the hear the exact recording between the AI operator and don't be people are like oh it's an AI operator dude I call you and and there's an answering machine

and answer you probably have a cassette tape in it and that was state of the art back when you were a young man no don't mock the AI our AI is so it knows everything about appliance repair can answer any question it knows all my pricing it knows everything it talks it it it is emotional and patient with the with the customers it never gets hungover it works 24 7 you can take calls at 9 at night 10 at night 11 at night doesn't matter you could be in a hospital bed

you know someday I'll tell you about how I came up with GuildUSA I was lying in the intensive care unit in in a hospital in New Orleans right I was I was laid up for three months my phone was still ringing I I I limped back to work I'm still limped to this day that was three years ago right but now I've got a backup plan I go on I'm going to uh Montana um in in two weeks I'm going to New York City to visit some friends and from there we're going to Montana

I'll be gone for two weeks and I'm gonna be making money every day on my referral program and my 1099 guys who are on the GuildUSA app every day I'm gonna be making at least $200 a day go to GuildUSA dot com get off your knees and if you're a young guy you wanna go too okay there's plenty of guys out there that are old that need to retire and you can this is a real seamless way and and it's mutually beneficial nobody's getting burned everybody's making money every along the way

and guess what if we get enough people in the guild we can take down Google we can eliminate them completely maybe ripping us all off I mean it you act like they don't make the phone ring Google does not make the phone we have over 300,000 people in our service area in our one service area and Google doesn't make one of those appliances break and they don't make one of those phones ring the listings on Google but guess what I'm 57 I remember way before the internet Google

there was always yellow pages and yellow page listings were always free okay so don't be fooled they have us all thinking we're competing with each other we're all scraping to get better SEO we're all boosting the rates up for dryer no heat paper click ads and all that stuff it's all an illusion man there's plenty of broken machines out there the machines are gonna keep breaking the people are gonna keep calling guys are solo guys my phone's ringing

I'm getting more than five bookings a day so much I had to train other guys to take on more work if you don't have enough work I'm sure there's an old guy in your area that wants to get up off his knees right that can't get behind dryers anymore but his phone's ringing both of you need to go to GuildUSA dot com sign up for a complimentary plan we'll get on a call we'll get your systems automated first so the phone stops ringing and and you stop doing all that office work

and then we'll work on recruiting more referral partners in your area of course you don't need the GuildUSA what I recommend is just going on and building up your referral network now um but then you're still you're taking the phones you're you got your pad out you're writing all the information down and then you're talking to them or you're looking up the other guy's schedule and his schedule and then you're making calls back and forth between the customer and your referral program

making sure that booking is is secure and you did a lot of work there I mean you get 50 bucks or whatever your referral agreement is but you did a lot of work now this is totally passive through the GuildUSA now to get this going you're gonna you're gonna graduate to a paid subscription on GuildUSA but right now founders are getting great benefits OK so we're gonna give you a sweet deal right now so go to GuildUSA dot com what are you waiting for get out and get some people

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