Comments on: Some quick secrets to asking clients for referrals

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 03 May 2006 03:49:58 +0000

You can offer money without it being rebating. Rebating is when pay someone or offer them money to accept what you are giving them or paying them for services on your product. It is totally legal to give gift certificates, money whatever else for referalls. You cannot offer money to keep someone on the books, or to pay someone’s first month premium to get them to accept your services. I offer gift certificates to favorite places to eat but my client has to know up front that in order to get it the referral has to be legit and must purchase something from me. But you can give rewards to clients for referrals totally legal.

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By: CubitGuy

CubitGuy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hmm, I'll have to to think about this!

I do have one question though: What in the world is a "Rolodex?"

By: cloak

cloak — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

offering some sort of reward to the client is a preffered method of mine. For every client they refer to me, they recieve something like a 5% commision, seems to work pretty well – and most people, when they see the pound signs, tend to be more helpful.

By: gforce

gforce — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I agree with cloak. We call it a "finders fee". It can range from 5 to 20 percent depending on how much business they bring in and their status as a client. We get a lot of business this way, particularly from associated businesses who don't/can't offer web design. For example we have a mini display with our business cards on the front desk of a small computer repair shop!

Also, shouldn't sitepoint be writing secular articles given it's enormous world-wide audience?

Thanks for the tips!

By: aneitlich

aneitlich — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Rolodex is the brand-name of an old-fashioned way of tracking contacts. Readers other than myself may be too young to remember when we tracked contacts with index cards and a plastic device that revolved to store them. Sigh.

By: pdxi

pdxi — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hey, I'm young-ish and I definitely know what a Rolodex is, and in fact, I still have one.

And I used to write school papers on a type writer.

And I'm under 30! Heh.

By: SUPERUSER

SUPERUSER — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hmmmm,

You won't get your users attention, neither referrals this way. Better, try, before writing nonsenses.

Better try some psychology tricks...

By: peach

peach — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Well, superuser. Who is really writing nonsens here?

By: CubitGuy

CubitGuy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Ahh! I always wondered what those were called. (Thanks, showing my age I guess (or lack thereof)).