Avoid
Toxic Commission Terms
Or How to Make Sure a Deal Never Gets Beyond the First Email
Want
a lesson on how NOT to treat an affiliate or a joint venture partner?
Here's a letter I received recently.
Would
you like to make some money promoting our upcoming National Seminar (name
changed to protect the guilty, of course!) to your list?
You'd make 25% commission -- that's almost $1,000.00 per person. Why 25% not
50%? Because I've only got 34 spots open at this point and might well be able to
sell it out on my own. Emphasis added.)
My
reaction was "Oh boy. He wants to pay me LESS than he's paid other people
because he's in the driver's seat." That's hardly an incentive for me to
bust my butt on his behalf!
Of course, if he had said he'd pay me 25 percent and not even mention the 50 percent, I might have been willing to do something.
But
this struck me as crude and rude.
Imagine
your boss telling you that he was going to pay you $50 for working overtime, but
since he can probably get the work done by some teenagers, he's willing to pay
you only $25.
Me,
I'd rather go home and relax!
Which
is what I did.
Imagine
that you bought a hotel room online and the ad sort of promised you 50 percent
off, but when you went to check in, you were informed that the hotel is probably
going to ....
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