[TriLUG] OT: referal and introduction fees

[Greg Brown]

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 <jmack at wm7d.net> 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
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