Imagine adding thirty or more people to your sales force overnight, without adding a penny to your payroll.

Imagine having a network of trusted professionals to whom you can refer your existing clients for all their needs from accounting to tailoring.

Now imagine both of those things in one place and you have LeTip: an organization of professionals dedicated to mutual support and providing valuable word-of-mouth marketing for each other.

In 1978 insurance salesman Ken Peterson recognized that a personal referral is the most powerful marketing tool available and founded LeTip. He has since expanded the concept to over 450 chapters across North America with more than 10,000 individual members.

To find out more about LeTip browse our site, contact a member or best of all join us for a weekly meeting. See for yourself how a dynamic professional network can take your business to the next level.

Here are a few things to keep in mind when you come to your first meeting.

• You should bring at least 50 of your business cards with you, for distribution to our members and other guests.
• You won't need any money. Guests do not pay for breakfast and only members pay fines.
• At least once during the meeting you will be given an opportunity to stand and deliver a 30-second commercial about yourself or your business to the group. The main things you'll want to say are: who you are, what you do and what kind of referrals are best for you.
• Please limit your commercial to your business. Unlike the Rotary or Chamber of Commerce, LeTip meetings have a very narrow focus: generating and passing leads.
• If you have any questions at all you should feel free to ask any of our members, or especially one of the Board of Directors.

What is a tip?

Definition of a tip: "My qualified business tip is a company or person who is interested in a specific service or product and is expecting a |call from a LeTip Member". A tip does not have to be a guarantee of a sale to be valid, but it must represent the legitimate potential for one.

There are four types of tips: inside, outside, escrow and inter-chapter. Inside Tip: Member A personally uses the services of Member B. Inside tips count towards your minimum requirement.

Outside Tip: Member A directs a non-member to use the services of Member B. Outside tips count toward your minimum requirement.

Escrow Tip: Member A tips the category of Qualified Guest B. Escrow tips do not count toward your minimum requirement. However, should the guest join the chapter the Escrow Tip will become a normal Inside or Outside Tip, at which point it will count.

Inter-Chapter Tip: Member A passes a Tip for a category not represented in our chapter to Member B in a different LeTip Chapter. Inter-Chapter tips do not count towards your minimum requirement, but they are a good way to show loyalty to the organization that you can expect will be returned in kind.

The Golden Rules

Join us for your first two meetings without worrying about joining. Come see why our members stay involved and get leads through networking.

Our frequent breakfast mixers are another great opportunity to meet new clients as well as make trusted business alliances you can count on.

Here at LeTip Ridgewood we believe that our business relationships extend outside the office. Join us at our annual picnic and hear how we have benefitted.

Meet us any Thursday of the year at 7 a.m.:

The Womens Club of Ridgewood
215 W. Ridgewood Avenue
Ridgewood, NJ 07450