We can just agree to disagree. I have been burnt in the past recommending people. So I shall not do it again. If you do not believe your service is not worth a premium, that’s a personal issue.
What this had to do with the original post was to thank the diligent efforts of those responsible and to point out its another tool and as a profession to use it just as that a tool. It’s up to use as each individual to use this and all other tools along with professionalism to elevate the profession.
So when people are asked to go outside their normal area the proper thing to do is hire an unknown person, to provide unknown service and get delivered an unknown product to a person who respects and values my service? It’s your business, do as you like. I can only control one aspect and that is me. It seems recommending people always falls back in my lap when they don’t deliver.
You guys was a little hard on Russ. What was Russ suppose to do? Somebody such as me couldn’t have gotten to it by the 14th. There is no way! My report turn around time is 1-2 weeks. If I get a lot of grief from the consumer or I know they will not listen to what I write anyway, it might take me even 3-4 weeks to write the report. You only got so much time in the day, so you get pretty independant. So if Russell has the time to fly over and perform an inspection and the client is willing to pay his expenses, good for him. His client just bought a vacation home, so I do not think this guy is hurting for money. Russ is just insuring his client gets good service.
Russ, if you ever get in Jefferson City area let me know, I will take you out to eat.
Just yesterday had a client from Jefferson city. Awesome people, very kind. It’s OK james, I make no excuses for charging people a professional fee for a professional service. It’s called business…
Nick
as always you are finding ways to add benefits to the organization. Wow, this one is a winner. I have had hopes for this occurring and can’t wait to put it to use. Looking forward to this one. Gift Cards for our clients to use! Hard to go wrong on this one.
The way I’d use it, it would. I’d ask the agent that referred the client to me to give it to our mutual client or I’d give it to the client only in the presence of the agent that referred the client to me.
By itself… No. Not a $25 gift card alone. Value proposition is like a precious metals scale that you tip by adding to it. Combine the gift card with 5 other reasons to hire me and it may very well be the deciding factor in choosing me over my competitor.
Ben, Clients that find me via the Internet hire because of my credentials. Although as Nick stated, a gift card would be a bonus that would help “tip the balance” in my favor with a certainsegment of potential clients.
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