<div dir="ltr">I am happy to pay 20% and happy to receive a thank you.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Marc Elliott Levy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marc.elliott.levy@gmail.com" target="_blank">marc.elliott.levy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style>Hi,</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style><span>Is it common to ask for referral fees when pointing someone to a qualified developer? </span><span>I referred someone today without having set up any kind of referral fee system. </span></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If it matters, I previously hired this person myself as a consultant for some more advanced work than I was prepared to do at that time. </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Should I have set up a referral system, or is etiquette within the community to just give business to people and hope they give some back to you? Or both? </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I am a </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Washington, DC-based</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">developer myself. I lean towards site building over module coding. </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I'm new to the business side of Drupal.</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Just trying to understand: What are the norms here? </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thanks in advance for your input,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Marc</span></div><div>
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