I would think a small "appreciation" fee would be in order. I would do it like this:
1. person A introduces you to person B for whom you do work totalling $3000.00 2. You pay person A the full referral rate of $1000.00 3. Person B now introduces you to Person C for a $3000.00 job 4. You pay person B the $1000.00 and I would think that person A would get $100.00? For some reason $50.00 seems too small. Now, if Person C introduces you to Person D I think that "A" could be cut out at this point and the $100.00 would go to Person B and the $1000.00 would go to person "C". This could get somewhat complicated. Person "A" should be happy as a clam. He or she got $1000.00 for work you do for a 3rd party. Maybe that should be good enough. It also depends on how much each job pays, I suppose. Extra degrees of seperation for lower paying, short-term jobs may equate to not enough money to really worry about. Greg On 8/4/05, Joseph Mack NA3T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an arrangement with a business person whereby if he > brings me a customer for my compute skills, I give him 1/3 > of the final labor fees. This is all on a handshake basis. > > Now I'm in the situation where the customer has introduced > me to someone else who wants work. The original business person > has not been involved in any way in this next introduction, > Since I wouldn't have met this next person except for the > original introduction I think it reasonable for the business > person to get some sort of fee, but not the full fee, since > they didn't have to do any work at all. We haven't discussed > this situation, because apparently neither of us thought > about it. > > How is this normally handled? > > Thanks Joe > -- > Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina > jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map > generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml > Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
