Pro Players Business - Frequently Asked Questions

Pro Players Business is a private, nationwide referral network. It started in 2015 with an email list of roughly 6,000 former NFL players and grew over the following years to a reach of close to 15,000 retired NFL players. In 2023 it opened to former athletes from every sport, along with high-level connectors brought in through existing members - expanding the network's reach to roughly 20,000 and still growing.

The model is one thing: you introduce someone who already takes your call. No sales rep, no ad, and no cold email competes with a personal relationship - that's the entire premise.

Here's how it works. You register your contact, which protects that contact while you work it. The system matches them to the program that fits their business. You approach your contact and book the sales call. From there our partner company's sales team handles the sales call, onboarding, and the account and customer service going forward.

You sign the PPB Agreement before you make any introduction - free to join, no obligation - so the terms are documented in writing before you put your name behind anything.

Two reasons.

The first was getting cut out. Founder and former NFL player Brad Leggett made introductions for years and watched deals close without him. He assumed that was his own bad luck until he started talking to other former players and heard the identical story back - football, baseball, hockey, different decades, same ending. The guy who made the introduction was the guy nobody paid. The introduction was never the problem. Nothing being in writing was.

The second was realizing what these networks were actually worth.

Every member has a network they've never counted. Hometown. School. The teams and rooms they came up in. And then twenty or thirty years of life after that - the people they did business with, went to church with, raised kids alongside.

The value isn't the nationally known names, though PPB has those. It's regional reach. Plenty of members were the only person from their town ever to make it to the pros. Thirty years later, that man can walk into almost any office in that county and get a meeting - not because of a pitch, but because of who he is there.

One person's list is useful. Hundreds of them on a single national platform is something else entirely. Brad couldn't find anyone building it, so he built it himself.

That's PPB. Vetted businesses, an agreement signed before you introduce anyone, and a clear process for protecting the contacts you bring in.

It means the introduction is the only part that requires you.

You identify someone in your network who fits what one of our partner programs is looking for - a business owner, an operator, a decision-maker. You register that contact, and the system matches them to the program that actually fits their business. Then you approach your contact and book the sales call.

From there the sales team for that program runs the call, answers the technical questions, handles onboarding, and manages the account going forward. We never cold-contact your contact. The introduction comes from you, because you're the only one who has the relationship.

You don't learn a product line. You don't build a presentation. You don't close anything and you don't chase follow-up. Your relationship is the asset - and registering it protects it while you work it.

A sales rep learns a product line, builds a presentation, handles objections, closes the deal, and manages the account afterward.

A referral rep does one thing: gets the right person from their own network onto the initial call with the partner company. That's where your part ends. The partner's team takes the sales call, the technical questions, the follow-up, and the account.

You don't even have to know which program fits. Register your contact and the system determines the right business partner for them. You're not evaluating our partners or figuring out who's a fit - you're bringing people you already know.

No product training. No presentations. No quotas. No cold calls. Getting your contact on that first call is the part only you can do, and it's the part the partner company can't do without you.

No. Cold outreach doesn't work in this model and we don't ask for it.

A partner company can buy a list. What they can't buy is a business owner picking up because your name is on the screen. Your personal relationship is your greatest asset - no sales rep can compete with it.

So a cold call isn't a smaller version of what we're asking for. It's the opposite of it.

Not anymore. For its first eight years, PPB worked only with former NFL players. In 2023 it opened to former athletes across every sport, and to high-level connectors and operators brought in through existing members.

The requirement never changed: you need real relationships with business owners and decision-makers, people you can call or text directly. Where you built those relationships matters less than whether they take your call.

Here's the test: can you pick up the phone and text this person right now, and will they answer?

If yes, that's a relationship. If you'd have to introduce yourself first, remind them who you are, or go through somebody else to reach them, that's a lead - and leads don't work here.

A high-level connector is someone with a lot of the first kind. It has nothing to do with how many contacts you have. It's about how many of them take your call.

Those contacts are your greatest asset, and until now there was never a national platform to plug them into.

No. There's no course, no certification, no seminar, and no product knowledge to memorize.

What there is: a system. Pro Edge, the PPB rep portal, walks you through what to do next at every step. You register a contact, the system matches them to the business vertical that fits, and it sends you the booking link. No guesswork about which program is right for who - that part is handled for you.

You take it from there. You go to your contact, and you use the link to set the sales call.

This is deliberate. We don't ask reps to figure out which vertical fits which contact, because we learned early that even people inside the medical industry get it wrong. Sales reps in the lab space couldn't reliably tell us which program fit their own doctor contacts. If they can't, nobody can - and a rep guessing wrong burns a relationship that took thirty years to build. So the system determines it.

The only requirement is following the system. Everything past the introduction belongs to the partner company.

Absolutely not. There is no fee to join. There are no products to buy. There are no monthly minimums, no inventory, no starter package, no quota, and no rank to chase. You are never a customer of Pro Players Business.

The real question underneath this one is whether money moves because people join. It doesn't.

The federal standard for a pyramid scheme has two parts: participants pay money to the company, and participants earn rewards for recruiting others that are unrelated to sales to real end customers. Neither one is true here.

There are two tiers of compensation and that is where it stops - no third level, no fifth level, no infinite depth, no downline to build, no volume requirement. Nobody at Pro Players Business gets paid because a person joined. Compensation is generated one way only: a real business or medical practice, which is not a participant in the program, becomes a paying customer of a vetted partner company. No completed sale to a real end customer, no commission - for anyone, at either tier.

You make introductions to vetted partner companies under a written agreement, and your compensation terms are defined in that agreement before you introduce anyone.

No. Not to join, not to stay, and not at any point after.

PPB doesn't make money from its members. The partner companies pay for access to introductions they couldn't get on their own. That's the entire business model. If a network ever asks you to pay for the privilege of referring business, that tells you where its revenue actually comes from.

No. PPB is independently owned and operated. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the National Football League, NFL Legends, the NFL Alumni Association, the NFL Players Association (NFLPA), the Pro Football Retired Players Association (PFRPA), or any other league, team, or players association.

Yes. Before a vertical goes live, we review the entity's registration and corporate documentation, the backgrounds of its leadership, and its financial standing. We check the OIG List of Excluded Individuals and Entities, the federal SAM.gov exclusion database, and the FDA's warning letter and enforcement records.

The Pro Players Business Agreement comes first.

The usual version of this is a handshake. You make the introduction, the deal closes, and there's nothing on paper saying you were part of it. That happened to our founder enough times that he built a company around fixing it.

Here, the terms are signed before you make a single call. Not agreed to verbally. Not settled after the deal closes.

Because it's in writing before you make the call, and there's a record of who brought the contact.

You register the contact in Pro Edge before you reach out. That timestamps it and protects the contact while you work it. Your compensation terms are in the independent contractor agreement you sign before any of this starts. And you can see the status in Pro Edge yourself instead of asking someone how it's going.

Fill out the form on the Get Started page. You'll receive an overview video and the Pro Players Business Agreement - an independent contractor agreement - to review and e-sign.

Once it's signed, you get access to Pro Edge and the schedule of live opportunity calls.

There's no commitment and no obligation. You can sign the agreement and do nothing with it. There's no quota, no minimum, no deadline, and nobody chasing you. Plenty of members sign, sit on it, and make their first introduction months later when the right conversation happens to come up.

Start with the contact page. Before that, know the four things that end the conversation early:

• We deal directly with owners. Not brokers, not consultants, not someone representing the company. If the principal isn't in the conversation, there's no conversation.
• No multi-level marketing. No downlines, no recruiting-based compensation, no programs where the money comes from people joining rather than business getting done.
• Nobody pays to participate. PPB members are never charged a fee, a buy-in, or a purchase requirement to work an opportunity. If a partner's model requires that, it's not a fit.
• PPB does not invest. We don't put capital into partner companies, buy equity, or pay for placement. We bring introductions. That's the whole arrangement.