Total agreement w/ Jim. Your relationship with the first guy has nothing to do with your relationship that you form in their "downstream network" (to use network marketing terms) because, fundamentally, you've not established a network relationship with your referrer. And to Jim's other more subtle point--many friendships have ended over financial arguments
If you pay your original referrer now, you've created an environment where--because YOU do good work--THEY get paid. This is a chain that needs to be broken very quickly. You'd do well to look at it like most incentive-based sales programs: if you sell something, you get paid. If someone buys without your involvement, you don't. This is a very defendable position to take. Jim's comment on buying them lunch/beer/doughnuts is a great way to say "thanks"--plus it gives you an excuse to talk to them about any other opportunities they might be aware of. Best of luck, Shane O. On 8/4/05, Jim Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i generally take someone out to lunch, buy them a beer, carry over > doughnuts one morning or try to reciprocate with a lead. however, i > avoid a finder's fee agreement and merely try to maintain personal > relationships instead of financial relationships. > > regards, > > jim > > Jim Ray, President > Neuse River Network, Inc. > > tel: 919-838-1672 x111 > toll free: 800-617-7652 > cell: 919-606-1772 > http://www.Neuse.Net > > Ask about our Clean Technologies. Established in the Carolinas 1997. > > > > Joseph Mack NA3T 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 > > > > -- > 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 > > -- Shane O. ======== Shane O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==================== -- 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
