| Referral Fee ???
I am looking for some Autopian advise. I have been approached by the service manager in a high end car dealership for detailing work. The service manager contacted me directly and stated that he has several clients that are looking for quality detail work. The manager has seen some of my work on one of the client's cars that I recently detailed when it was in for service and asked for my name and contact info.
The service manager would like to refer clients to me. In exchange, he is asking for a referral fee. I have not gotten to the point of asking what amount the fee would be. The arrangement would be between myself and the manager and would have nothing to do with the dealership.
I see several advantages and disadvantages to this and am looking for some input.
Advantages:
1. All of the cars would be high end or exotics.
2. The clients could turn into potential long term clients
3. I could pick and choose what I wanted to work on.
Disadvantages:
1. The fee could cut into the amount of money that I would make on a detail and would cause me to increase pricing to offset the fee.
Any thoughts??? |