Lori Karpman Expands Business Internationally Through H7 Network's Relationship-Based CSA Methodology

I realized what the community is a couple of months ago when I was hospitalized know, a great number of H7 members reached out to me to send me great, you know, get well wishes. You don't get that in a traditional group, right? So H7 is only B2B. It's all decision-makers, so you're always dealing with someone who has the ability to do business with you. Hi, I'm Laurie Cartman and I'm coming to you from the beautiful Montreal, Quebec. ⁓ I am an H7 member and the name of my business is called The Copy Lab. What brought me to H7 that I had actually heard about it. I'd heard other people mention it. I sort of heard it here and there. So I went to the website, I had a phone call with Clay. He invited me to a couple of meetings, which I attended, and I was really very impressed with the culture overall looking for a way to expand my business. I'm Canadian, but all my business is in the US and H7 is an international group, so that was a great interest to me. What made me decide to become a member was attending the meetings and meeting the people and realizing that this really is a community of people who really want to help each other. And there was this community that I'd not felt in any other of the networking groups and I'm like always in five, six groups at a time. I just didn't feel that camaraderie and I didn't feel same interest that people have in really helping other people. hap- of impact in the conversations that I've had. when you're speaking to an H7 member, they're very open about their network. So you're not just speaking to them, you're speaking to who they know. And that's how the referrals start, is because you speak to someone who's an H7 member, who refers you to someone who is not an H7 member, who refers you to someone else who's not an H7 member, and then you get a contract. So you can trace, you know, you can actually trace the percentage of your business that comes from age 7, you know, back to the genesis being someone in age 7. Because in age 7, there's no pitching. So we're not trying to sell each other. Age 7 doesn't measure transactions or how many meetings you go to. You're looking to develop relationships with other people in the room who become referral sources or collaborators or strategic partners. So it's a very different ecosystem in that way. The connect, serve, and ask method literally, I think everyone will tell you the same thing, literally transforms how you used to drone on just like everybody else with my 30 second pitch and all this stuff and I just don't do that anymore. In age seven, one of the things you learn is just get to the point. Ask for what you want. So the connect, serve, ask method is really a great way of building you're not just looking at them as a referral source or as a dollar sign, but you're actually building relationships. relationships. The biggest benefit I've received aside from being part of a wonderful community the education. training that they give you, the CSA training and other trainings that you get as an H7 member are very helpful. run 50 different meetings a week and a good part of those are educational. So I really like the educational aspect because not only am I getting to build relationships with people, but I'm also learning tools and tricks that I use in my business. So I find it very polyvalent in terms of the membership. I would recommend H7 to business professionals and entrepreneurs because it is a way to grow your business internationally. It's a fabulous group of people. What's most important is that there's 1,400 members. I think it's the fifth largest networking group in the US. connections that you make make all over the world and you're able to generate business that on your own you would never have been able to generate.