HR Consultant Scaled Affiliate Partnerships from 54 to 270 Members

I am Jackie Gurney, of Seven Star HR, which is an HR coaching and consulting company. brought me to H7 Network was I was doing networking that cost me $390 a month and I was getting no results. My first impression was that the people who are in H7 are business-to-business people and that they are higher-level people, so you're not dealing with sales reps and those who don't have a database that really could help me. So I've been in H7 for over two years and during that time, when I came to H7, ⁓ well, let me step back a second and say that we only sell through affiliate partnerships, not direct. And when I came to H7, I had 54 affiliate partnerships. Now, two plus years later, I have 270 affiliate partnerships. Understanding in H7, we don't sell to the room, we sell through the room the people in the room know. And so that has really increased my revenue because I have these partners that now bring me clients. I think that there is no one person who has had a bigger impact on me than Clay Hicks, really. He really communicated what H7 was. I found him through LinkedIn connection, and in the first connection that I received, I actually got a referral to somebody who became an affiliate partner. So I went, okay, these people are my people, because they know what networking is about. It's not to make friends. It is to really help each other. And H7's developing champions is really important for people to understand because in the H7, we do not look at how much money we received. We look at the connections we received and the relationships we So it's a beautiful thing. If I ever run into somebody who starts doing what H7 calls pitch slapping, ⁓ where they're trying to sell, I know that they're probably not an H7 member, or they're a brand-new member who has not taken their training yet. So there is only relationship building in the one-on-ones, not trying to get someone to buy from you. One of the beauties of H7 is that they have multiple types of meetings. You can attend as many meetings as you want a month. ⁓ Everything is included and you don't have a particular home that you... like some of the others that you're going, well, I'm supposed to be attending this and they're going to take attendance if I don't and I'm going to get dinged. This is networking for adults. We don't have any of that kind of stuff.