Marcus Doyle · Harrowgate Motors · Akron

Four seats are open in Marcus Doyle’s network.

Marcus is building a small network of the local businesses that know a car purchase is coming before the buyer does — 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 customers and count how many arrived because someone they trusted said your name, rather than because of anything you paid for. For most local businesses it is nearly all of them.

Nobody wakes up planning to buy a car. Something happens first. The mechanic says the transmission costs more than the car is worth. The tow truck hauls it away for the last time. A second child arrives and the car seats no longer fit. A household splits in two. A teenager passes the driving test. The people standing at each of those moments hear about the purchase before the buyer has even started looking — and rarely know a salesperson well enough to say a name. This network fixes that, and it sends business back the other way.

They close faster
A referred customer 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 customer who came through someone they trust leaves less often and introduces you to the next one. 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 families 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 Marcus because he already works with them and would put his own name behind them. That is the only way in — there is no application.

Vehicle sales
Marcus Doyle · Harrowgate Motors
New and pre-owned. Twelve years on the floor, most of his buyers sent by someone they trust.
Filled
Independent auto repair
Kessler Auto Service
The first to say “don’t fix it” when a repair costs more than the car is worth.
Filled
Towing and roadside
Ridge Road Towing
First on the scene when a car dies for good.
Filled
Collision repair
Brightwater Collision
Often the first to know a car is a total loss.
Filled
Property and casualty insurance
Open
The agent adding a teenage driver, or processing the claim on a totaled car. No business holds this seat yet.
Available
Apartment leasing
Open
Renters moving from the city to the suburbs, who suddenly need a commuter car. No business holds this seat yet.
Available
Family law
Open
When one household becomes two, one car usually becomes two. No business holds this seat yet.
Available
Childcare
Little Oaks Early Learning
Talks to parents every day, and knows who just outgrew the back seat.
Filled
Accounting and tax
Open
Business owners weighing a year-end equipment purchase, and the work truck that comes with it. No business holds this seat yet.
Available
Driver education
Northcoast Driving Academy
New drivers and their parents, about six weeks before a first car.
Filled

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 Marcus 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 customers 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 mechanic or insurance agent is admitted to Marcus’s network, at any price — and no other salesperson at Harrowgate Motors can invite a business that already sits in his.

Ask about a seat.

The seat costs you nothing. Harrowgate Motors carries the cost of the network, and you come in as Marcus’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 — Marcus is not the one selling this, and he does not receive any part of it.

Talk to Shoutback First

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