How to compensate a referal?
How to compensate a referal?
(OP)
Hi all,
I've set up a convenient arrangement where my sofware reseller is feeding me work from his customers.
I'm new to the contract game and was wondering what kind of compensation is being doled out in this situation. I realize that every situation is different ie, length of job, value of job, but some ballpark ideas would at least help me negotiate our arrangment.
Cheers
I've set up a convenient arrangement where my sofware reseller is feeding me work from his customers.
I'm new to the contract game and was wondering what kind of compensation is being doled out in this situation. I realize that every situation is different ie, length of job, value of job, but some ballpark ideas would at least help me negotiate our arrangment.
Cheers
Specs, Intel Pentium M 2.16 Mhz
SW 2007 R2.2
1.5 Gb Ram
NVidia GE Force GO 6800 256Mb





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Thanks for the responses so far!
Specs, Intel Pentium M 2.16 Mhz
SW 2007 R2.2
1.5 Gb Ram
NVidia GE Force GO 6800 256Mb
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Or, do you mean a more formal arrangement?
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Albert Einstein
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Specs, Intel Pentium M 2.16 Mhz
SW 2007 R2.2
1.5 Gb Ram
NVidia GE Force GO 6800 256Mb
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Cheers
Greg Locock
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As a company who sells products through certain channels via distribution, we spend a lot of money in market communications with the sole aim of stimulating the market place. Once stimulated, we point them towards our distributors. The benefits that distributors offer far outway the costs of doing business direct. Of course, we make some money on the transaction to the distributor but this is accepted, this is business.
Overkill04 must be adding value to the chain otherwise the SW supplier would not be doing this. The value must be something the supplier cannot themselves offer.
If the process is working for overkill04, as in he/she's making a living, then I would say the next step is for him/her to discuss with them.
If you're starting out in business then the last thing you want to be doing is giving away your margin if you don't need to. It's not stinginess, just business sense.
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The stinginess is mind boggling indeed. You sound like the kind of employer that does not even offer health inssurance to your workers. I thought architects were suckers, could Engineers be worse?
As Greg says, Cheers
RE: How to compensate a referal?
First of all ... who are you replying to?
Who mentioned $100/hr plus overhead?
No one mentioned not being willing to pay?
How do you know that whoever you are replying to has a "fat a**"?
You think the implied stinginess is mind-boggling? I find your assumptions to be even more so!
SW07-SP3