Comments on: Providing Referrals - Are You Taking a Risk? http://justagirlintheworld.com/providing-referrals-are-you-taking-a-risk/ Designer, Author WordPress For Dummies Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:58:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Astro http://justagirlintheworld.com/providing-referrals-are-you-taking-a-risk/#comment-300676 Astro Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:15:16 +0000 http://justagirlintheworld.com/providing-referrals-are-you-taking-a-risk/#comment-300676 :o squEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEllllllllllllll!!!!!!!! |-) :o squEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEllllllllllllll!!!!!!!! |-)

]]> By: Lisa http://justagirlintheworld.com/providing-referrals-are-you-taking-a-risk/#comment-300667 Lisa Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:56:27 +0000 http://justagirlintheworld.com/providing-referrals-are-you-taking-a-risk/#comment-300667 Astro.. so, you're saying that I need to hire you to be my piggy in the middle? ;) Recommendations and referrals always come with the standard disclaimers.. "I've used them.. I've had good experiences.. I hope you do too".. type of thing. I wish I could control the outcome, but I have a hard enough time dragging myself out of bed in the morning! ha :D Astro.. so, you’re saying that I need to hire you to be my piggy in the middle? ;)

Recommendations and referrals always come with the standard disclaimers.. “I’ve used them.. I’ve had good experiences.. I hope you do too”.. type of thing.

I wish I could control the outcome, but I have a hard enough time dragging myself out of bed in the morning! ha :D

]]> By: Astro http://justagirlintheworld.com/providing-referrals-are-you-taking-a-risk/#comment-300665 Astro Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:04:32 +0000 http://justagirlintheworld.com/providing-referrals-are-you-taking-a-risk/#comment-300665 Part of getting a referral is knowing that you're dealing with somebody else's past experiences and knowing that yours may not be the same. If it doesn't work out, then it's filed away for addition in future recommendations, either to be added when recommended or to make them somebody you don't recommend until you hear a lot more in the future. We have to make a fair amount of recommendations, and they normally come with something like "here's the common ones, and here's our experiences and what we know for why we would or wouldn't use them". There's normally also a comment about if they've been good in the past and went downhill or if we've used them ourselves. As for it going wrong, it all depends, and I can be a horrible person to put in the middle. I often have the blessing / curse of being able to see both sides of an argument, and whether or not it's valid or you can see it, part of putting me in the middle is having me tell you where you did screw up or could be perceived to have screwed up. If the other person is one I normally trust or have a fair amount of dealings with I'll normally talk with them soon after giving them the recommendation for a couple of reasons. First, it can build a little business in the future because they know where the recommendation is coming from. It also lets them be halfway prepared for it and have a few ideas going so they can give a better first impression (which of course, makes you look better too), and should hopefully make things go a little better and easier. If it goes wrong, I may or may not talk with them, depending on the situation. If things went wrong with somebody who had been referred to me, I normally want to know. Most times you know long before it gets to the point of talking to whoever referred them to me calling, but it can happen. Part of getting a referral is knowing that you’re dealing with somebody else’s past experiences and knowing that yours may not be the same. If it doesn’t work out, then it’s filed away for addition in future recommendations, either to be added when recommended or to make them somebody you don’t recommend until you hear a lot more in the future. We have to make a fair amount of recommendations, and they normally come with something like “here’s the common ones, and here’s our experiences and what we know for why we would or wouldn’t use them”. There’s normally also a comment about if they’ve been good in the past and went downhill or if we’ve used them ourselves.

As for it going wrong, it all depends, and I can be a horrible person to put in the middle. I often have the blessing / curse of being able to see both sides of an argument, and whether or not it’s valid or you can see it, part of putting me in the middle is having me tell you where you did screw up or could be perceived to have screwed up.

If the other person is one I normally trust or have a fair amount of dealings with I’ll normally talk with them soon after giving them the recommendation for a couple of reasons. First, it can build a little business in the future because they know where the recommendation is coming from. It also lets them be halfway prepared for it and have a few ideas going so they can give a better first impression (which of course, makes you look better too), and should hopefully make things go a little better and easier. If it goes wrong, I may or may not talk with them, depending on the situation.

If things went wrong with somebody who had been referred to me, I normally want to know. Most times you know long before it gets to the point of talking to whoever referred them to me calling, but it can happen.

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