So you're looking for networking opportunities you're looking for the
best networking group in Florida you might even be looking for the best
networking group in all of America well guess what I have got the guy that we
need to talk to today I've got the president of the RGA Network Mark
O' Donnell is sitting here in our studio Marco Donald how are you sir I'm great
Hey Wade how are you I am blessed to have you so what is RGA? RGA
is a business networking group like no other we believe in an abundance style
mentality in networking where it provides you with more opportunities to
network your business what you have a catchphrase that I love so much it's
it's Wall Street networking yes it's Wall Street networking at Main
Street prices we are a high valued networking organization providing more
features and benefits than most other networking organizations combined so you
say benefits what is the benefit of joining our RGA over another networking
group well the power of our website our rganetwork.net is ranked high in the
Google algorithms for search engine optimization our business listing gets
over 70,000 unique views every single month wow that's a lot a lot it's great
it is most people are driven to our directory listing of our members not
only are featured members but the members in general when they're looking
for trusted merchants service partners to do business with now what does RGA
stand for I'm glad you asked our RGA stands for revenue generating activities
we believe from whatever you're doing from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. should be a
revenue generating activity especially for an entrepreneur especially if you
have your own business or you're part of a business that needs a network and get
your get your story out there correct and you know we found one of our secrets
to this formula is our multiple meeting locations once you're a member you're
free to network throughout our organization wherever our meetings are
and how many meetings do you have right now we're in Tampa right now
Tampa Bay has about 28 we have about four forming that number
changes and grows all the time and so where else are you other than Tampa st.
Louis Nashville we're forming a chapter in all places
but Akron Ohio so we're in st. Louis you're in Nashville and you're forming
one in Akron Ohio now so they've gone to rganetwork.net and
they've see how the value in this and they understand the networking that is
what you have to be you have to network if you have a business right and then they
want to start their own chapter how do they do that
I'm glad you asked starting an RGA chapter is simple and easy to do we ask
that you find first contact us at info at rganetwork.net we'll have a
conversation on best practices to start a meeting we asked to find a meeting
location in your town that typically has a private room we like to use locally
owned and operated restaurants because we want to give back to the community if
you find a private room then we ask for you to find someone who your synergetic
with but is not in your same industry for you Wade we would say you do video
production then find a financial planner or a banker or a mortgage broker
somebody in a totally different industry so you can ask your friends and
co-workers from different walks of life to join you at your first meeting
meetings are energetic informative and we always try to promote our network
from within so once we gather enough people to be invited we recommend
between 25 and 30 to come to the initial meeting we have about 10 to 15
networkers that usually join our organization and we're able to launch a
chapter it's just that simple and you've seen huge growth with your members correct we
have we have so once a chapter forms it's easy for our members to find other
members along with the meeting location through the RGA app RGA space network
it downloads on any device that you have I'll just go to the App Store you you will find it
RGA space network and then that will give you a geolocation of wherever you're
located the members that are nearby and the meeting location in a town near you
that's awesome if there's no meeting in your area we need you to start one you
need to call you need to call because it's the most affordable
effective way to grow your business as networking absolutely I mean there's
several studies but a Harvard study provides shows that people who network
may earn 43% more revenue in their business than those folks that don't
work and rely on traditional marketing efforts alone that's all that's awesome
and you find it you find that that the going out and touching and meeting and
then the talking and if there's there's a synergy that starts and people want to
be involved with you you have these other things in the network do you have
things so called the MOMS and the BOBS and the DADS what explain RGA has its own
language so MOMS are meetings outside the meetings we believe that you should
get to like know and trust someone and that's where the magic happens that's
where you find out your similarities with the other individual and how you
can best refer them because you it's hard to refer someone who just gets up
and does a 30-second commercial but when you know how many children they have
where they're from you know becomes a family becomes a thing you get to know
your your your fellow member and you get to know them inside and out and it's one
of those things where you really need to trust the person that you're referring
to like so so you really get to know them so if you're referring somebody
it's not just a referral cuz you know what they do it's because you know who
they are correct so we have MOMS which are meetings outside the meetings DADS
which are discussions after dinner I thought they were drinks after dinner
well there's many different okay herbs physician freedom and we also have
family find another member in learning why so the why is where the magic
happens when you find out the passion of some way more they got into the business
absolutely when you work as an entrepreneur or sole proprietor or small
business sometimes it's difficult to like an accountant you know you're gonna
give them your whole business records well if you eat lunch or breakfast with
someone every week eventually you get to find out whether you want to do business
with them or more importantly whether you don't want to do business with them
so it also builds relationships and enhances the ability to refer them if
you use them as that you can say to people look I don't use them as a
chiropractor I have my own chiropractor but I eat lunch with them
every day and I hear about their amazing success stories you could use them as
your chiropractor as well that's awesome awesome mark I appreciate you so much
for coming down and talking about your network your network opportunity of RGA
Network now just for you have just a few seconds left right do me a favor
look right into that camera and tell everybody who's watching why they need
to call you or they need to contact you at rganetwork.net what is different
what is what is passionate about why are you so passionate about this tell them
why they need to call you why I am so passionate networking shouldn't be a
second job you shouldn't be scared about missing a meeting and possibly getting
kicked out you shouldn't have to have a forced referral it should become organic
and a simple method for you to refer your friends families and co-workers to
your fellow networkers so if you have a networking organization that feels like
a second job you should come to our RGA if you're only able to network with one
meeting and one group of individuals you should come to our RGA if your rates keep
going up year after year you should come to our RGA so we have a really great
attitude at RGA I like that see I can see what you did there you turn the RGA and
so now I couldn't have said it better myself so if you're looking for a
networking group and if you're looking for a networking group with heart with
passion with humanity I would definitely recommend that you call Mark O'Donnell
and get him get in touch with them on our RGAnetwork.net doesn't is there a phone
number that could clear is you can call us on and someone will answer the phone
or will return your phone call by the next business day 727-433-2774
there you have it it's also at the bottom of
your screen so go ahead and give them a call and we thank you so much Mark I
appreciate you so much for coming down RGA Mark O'Donnell everybody from the RGA Network
Network thank you god bless you we'll see you next time