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Business Idea Journal
How To make Money With Your Own Referral
Service Business
James J Jones -- Publisher
There are many different referral services you can run,
either as a stand-alone service or together with other
types.
Here are some businesses you can specialize in: plumbers,
hair salons, auto maintenance, child care, real estate
agents, travel agents, lawyers, dentists, musicians and
DJ's, printers, restaurants, even house sitters.
Basically, any high-competition business will appreciate a
referral service.
How can you make money? If you provide the service free to
consumers, you can either charge a monthly or annual fee to
business listed with your service, or you can collect a
commission on each successful referral. Or, depending on
the type of service you run, you can charge the consumer.
For instance, if you are running a roommate referral
service, both parties (the searcher and the potential roommate) can be charged a fee.
All you'll need to start are business cards, stationery,
and a business phone. Identify the types of businesses
you'll keep information on, then develop a survey geared
toward the type of the business they're in. Ask what types
of work they specialize in, what their average charge is,
how long they've been in business, if they have customers
who can give a testimonial for them (call these people and
get their permission before you use their testimonial.),
and other pertinent information.
Get these surveys out to each of the businesses in the cat-
egories you've selected, and keep their responses in your file.
Put together a flyer advertising your referral services.
Then, distribute the flyers by: posting them on grocery store
and church bulletin boards, leaving them on car windshields in mall
parking lots, posting them in laundry rooms at apartment
buildings, and leaving them anywhere large groups of people
will see them.
When a customer calls for a referral, give them the infor-
mation you've collected from the businesses. They will
appreciate not having to make three dozen calls in order to
make an informed decision. The customer testimonials will
help people make a good decision.
Keep in touch with the people you've given referrals to, so
you can get their opinion on how the business did. If you
get complaints from customers, drop the business from your
files. If you get good recommendations, move them to the
front of the list.
You will be offering a much-needed public service with this
business. Stress to potential businesses that you can refer
new customers to them, and they should be willing to pay
commissions, or a subscription fee. Give it a try, and you
can make a decent amount of money in the referral business!
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Quotable...
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered
an old idea and thinks it is his own.
(Sydney J. Harris)
Quick Business Idea: Business Mailing List Service
Set up a home-based computer service which maintains the mailing lists of
local businesses. Charge a fee of 10 or 20 cents to initially enter the names
and addresses into a database. Then charge say, 5 cents per label to print out
for mailing.
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James J. Jones. Publisher
Email: jjones@business-ideas.biz.
Address:
James Jones
8508 Park Rd #243
Charlotte, NC 28210
Phone: 704-541-5903
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