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I was in sales for 15+ years and in sales, contact referral is a
MAJOR part of the process. It is a personal relationship between you,
the party who is receiving the referral, and the party being
referred, and you don't have to let everyone into that personal
relationship
When someone would give me a referral to someone else, it is proper
to ALWAYS ask if their name could be used, and it was simply
understood that the referral was a personal thing between the two
parties and NEVER passed on with their permission.
Also..it is understood by EVERYONE that recruiter pay for referrals,
sometimes as much as several thousand dollars.
I maintain that companies you have as referrals ARE owned by the
person giving the referral..the company per se is not owned, but the
personal referral is...otherwise, use the yellow pages.
--- Maggie Secara <maggiros2 -at- home -dot- com> wrote:
> At least John's name won't be the one they all cite as their
> source. That will be the 'friend" who compiled the list and
> sent it out, I'm sure.
>
> Passing on contact names you've collected isn't a crime. No one
> owns them.
> But it was rude not to reveal the real intentions, so John could
> decide
> whether he wanted to be this helpfuil to a bunch of strangers.
>
> Maggie Secara
>
----
>
> Yeah, that was my first thought... if I were one of John's agency
> contacts,
> and 25 wannabe writers with no qualifications showed up on my
> doorstep, I
> wouldn't say "thank God for the person who provided all of this
> fabulous word-of-mouth advertising."
>
> (No, I don't know that they're all unqualified hacks. I made that
> up. And if
> you want to say they're all fabulous people and the recruiter will
> be
> thrilled to hear from them, that's great, but you're making it up
> too.)
>
> The person who asked you for this information should have been more
> upfront about his intentions. I would have been miffed as well.
=====
John Posada, Senior Technical Writer
"How to be happy in life: Never impose your beliefs
on anyone else and never fry bacon in the nude."
-- Anon mailto:john -at- tdandw -dot- com, 732-259-2874
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