On 8/4/05, Shane O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
This sound right to me as well, Greg Brown's suggestion seems like you would be setting up a multi-level scheme like Amway or Mary Kay based on nothing but the initial handshake deal. -- 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
