Ellen Vance is building a small network of businesses that serve the same people she does — one per category, no competitors, and no second of anything. Five have already accepted. If one of the open categories below is yours, the seat is available now and it will not be split.
You already know this. Look at your last ten good clients and count how many arrived because a person they trusted said your name, rather than because of anything you paid for. For most professional businesses it is nearly all of them.
It is also the one channel nobody manages. It happens when it happens, from whoever happens to remember you, and there is no reliable way to get more of it on purpose. Meanwhile everything you can buy — ads, lists, outreach — gets more expensive and less believed every year.
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 your customer have a standing reason to think of you — and forty-five minutes a month where that actually gets acted on rather than intended.
Every business here was invited personally by Ellen because she already works with them and would put her own name behind them. That is the only way in — there is no application.
Businesses are listed with their permission. A member who prefers not to be named shows only their category.
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.
And the seat is the only one in your category for as long as you hold it. No second accountant is admitted to this network.
A seat costs you nothing: you join as the host’s guest. It includes the monthly session, introductions, the network’s events, a private circle for your own clients and your offers in the network Lobby. Nobody in this network is paid for referrals, Ellen included. Leave your details and Ellen will call you herself, usually within a day. The seat stays held for you while you talk.
Ellen will call you, usually within a day. Questions about how the platform works can go to hello@shoutback.com.
Not the right fit? Say so in the note and Ellen will close it out, with nothing awkward. If you know somebody who should hold this seat instead, that is genuinely useful.