Teresa Okafor · Commercial Sales · Harrowgate Motors · Akron

Four seats are open in Teresa Okafor’s commercial network.

Teresa sells work trucks and vans to the HVAC companies, landscapers, plumbers and contractors running five to fifty vehicles. She is building a small network of the local businesses that know a contractor is about to add trucks before the owner starts shopping — one per category, no competitors, and no second of anything. Six have already accepted. If one of the open categories below is yours, the seat is available now and it will not be split.

6 of 10
seats filled
No charge
Harrowgate Motors carries the cost
45 min
once a month — nine hours a year
One
business per category, enforced
Why a seat is worth having

Your best customers came from somebody vouching for you.

You already know this. Look at your last ten good commercial accounts and count how many arrived because someone they trusted said your name, rather than because of anything you paid for. For most businesses that sell to contractors it is nearly all of them.

A contractor does not buy trucks on a whim. Something happens first. They win a big contract. They hire a crew. Their banker approves an expansion line. Their accountant tells them a year-end equipment purchase makes sense. The supply house counter hears about the new crew on Monday. The people standing at each of those moments know a fleet purchase is coming before the owner calls a single dealer. And it runs both ways: every truck Teresa sells needs insurance, financing, upfitting and lettering — business she sends straight back to the network.

They close faster
A referred account arrives having already decided you are credible. The conversation starts at how rather than why you, and it rarely comes down to price.
They cost nothing
No ad spend, no lead fees, no quote written for somebody who was only ever shopping.
They stay, and they refer on
A contractor who came through someone they trust stays with you for the next truck, and the one after that. The channel compounds. Nothing you buy does.

What a network does is make it deliberate. Instead of hoping the right person remembers you at the right moment, a handful of businesses who already serve the same contractors have a standing reason to think of you — and forty-five minutes a month where that actually gets acted on rather than intended.

Who is in it

Ten categories. One business each.

Every business here was invited personally by Teresa because she already works with them and would put her own name behind them. That is the only way in — there is no application.

Commercial vehicle sales
Teresa Okafor · Harrowgate Motors
Work trucks and vans for contractors running five to fifty vehicles. Fleet volume, retail attention.
Filled
Trade supply house
Crestline Supply Co.
The counter every HVAC, plumbing and electrical contractor visits weekly. Hears first who is hiring and adding a crew.
Filled
Truck upfitting
Halverson Upfit Co.
Shelving, ladder racks, plows and liftgates. Every truck Teresa sells needs one; every truck they outfit was bought somewhere.
Filled
Vehicle wraps and lettering
Ironside Wraps & Signs
Letters every new work truck in town, and knows which companies are growing.
Filled
Business banking
Ledgeview Business Bank
Equipment lines and working capital for owners who are expanding.
Filled
Commercial tires
Corbin Commercial Tire
Services the fleets already on the road, and sees which trucks are near the end.
Filled
Commercial insurance
Open
Writes the fleet policies, and adds a vehicle every time a contractor adds a crew. No business holds this seat yet.
Available
Accounting for the trades
Open
Contractors weighing a year-end equipment purchase, and the trucks that come with it. No business holds this seat yet.
Available
Commercial property management
Open
Hires landscapers, HVAC and maintenance contractors, and knows who just won the big contract. No business holds this seat yet.
Available
Payroll and HR services
Open
Sees headcount grow before anyone else. A new crew usually means a new truck. No business holds this seat yet.
Available

Businesses are listed with their permission. A member who prefers not to be named shows only their category.

What is asked of you

Nine hours a year, and no commercials.

The meeting
Forty-five minutes a month, chaired by Teresa to an agenda Shoutback writes. What introductions were made, what is open, who you are trying to meet, and who at the table can make that introduction. Nobody presents.
Your part
Make an introduction when there is a genuine fit, and say so plainly when there is not. No quotas, no obligations, no weekly breakfast.
Your list
Your accounts stay yours. They are never pooled, shared, or visible to any other member. Nobody in this network can contact them.
What you get back

Introductions, worked rather than hoped for.

A referral group that meets and then forgets about each other produces nothing. Privaire runs the month between meetings — prompting where a fit exists, tracking every introduction made and received, and reporting what came of it. You will always be able to see what this seat has produced for you, which is the only honest basis for keeping it.

The seat is exclusive for as long as you hold it. No second insurance agent or upfitter is admitted to Teresa’s network, at any price — and no other salesperson at Harrowgate Motors can invite a business that already sits in hers.

Ask about a seat.

The seat costs you nothing. Harrowgate Motors carries the cost of the network, and you come in as Teresa’s guest — what is asked of you instead is participation: 45 minutes once a month, one specific situation brought to the table, and a note of what you receive. Shoutback will walk you through it and answer anything — Teresa is not the one selling this, and she does not receive any part of it.

Talk to Shoutback First

Not the right fit? Tell us and we will close it out with Teresa so there is nothing awkward. If you know somebody who should hold this seat instead, that is genuinely useful — say so.