No sorry but you could google advisers in the various tax havens, if there is a need for them.
If you would fund me to go to a nice tax haven to do some research I would happily oblige.
Ha ha. If anyone is going anywhere on anyone else's money, that would be me. Not you. Sadly the budget for the article is unlikely to stretch beyond a coffee in MacDonalds.
I will let you know, of course, if anything changes.
Sites like Bark and Servicestart sell leads for £20 to £50 each but are a low standard.
Will the problem you not have is that if they contact you following an article you have written is it not you they want so if you pass them on to someone else.
would a better model not be to take them on yourself then subcontract the work on to someone else so you get the £1500 fee then 30% of the fee to whoever does the work.
Yes, I do agree they may just want me as I have written the article. Probably more profitable to sub contract, but in reality I cannot be bothered with the hassle. That is why I don't like hiring staff.
I do periodically dump clients when I have too much going on and too little time. I actually don't mind getting the clients in, and I don't mind signing them up, but its just the doing the work that I cannot be bothered with.
Thanks everyone who replied, and PM'd. I will respond to each one.
I have some of your contact numbers by PM, so if I do not get around to contacting you and setting up an agreement I will just tell the client to ring you. This first lot will be small fry anyway.
I am based in the North of England and I know that is a problem for a couple of people. However, for that level of fee I would never see the client anyway. Its only for more profitable clients I would meet them.
No they are not for a tax magazine. They are about tax for a magazine. I have written for tax magazines, but not this one. This one next month any accountant could probably do them. They would be pretty small fry. When I have done them myself I have charged anywhere between £1k and £1.5k. But I am trying to get away from doing work myself.
The one in a month or so would be bigger clients. When I have got enquiries from this source in the past I have just told them I was not interested but have suggested another firm. I have not charged the other firm but I am thinking that I can in the future, so just stop doing the work myself.
Rgab, what do you mean when you say you would want the lead to be "very warm"? If you are only paying the referral fee on billing the client what is the risk? I would not expect to receive anything if the client was not billed.
I have had some enquires by PM, so will respond to them all. Many thanks
Many thanks for the replies.
Ireallyshouldknowthis, did you have a written agreement with the firm which you passed work to? I believe that when claims farmers pass work on to PI solicitors they have a written agreement. I am not sure how the CFs find out whether the solicitor has taken on the client.
I would not intend to go very far down the securing the client route. I would be willing to have the initial chat with them, then pass them on to someone else. The ones that I tend to get would generally sign up anyway. What would the % fee be on this basis? I know that these ones are pretty small fry clients, so am not expecting miracles.
I have another article in a journal in a couple of months, but I know that these clients would be big. Too big for me anyway.
Many thanks for the replies.
Ireallyshouldknowthis, did you have a written agreement with the firm which you passed work to? I believe that when claims farmers pass work on to PI solicitors they have a written agreement. I am not sure how the CFs find out whether the solicitor has taken on the client.
I would not intend to go very far down the securing the client route. I would be willing to have the initial chat with them, then pass them on to someone else. The ones that I tend to get would generally sign up anyway. What would the % fee be on this basis? I know that these ones are pretty small fry clients, so am not expecting miracles.
I have another article in a journal in a couple of months, but I know that these clients would be big. Too big for me anyway.
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Ha ha. If anyone is going anywhere on anyone else's money, that would be me. Not you. Sadly the budget for the article is unlikely to stretch beyond a coffee in MacDonalds.
I will let you know, of course, if anything changes.
Sadly not half as bendy as I was when I was!
Ha ha. Both wrong. Nick name when I was younger as I did a lot of gymnastics.
I didn't want my real name on here.
Yes, I do agree they may just want me as I have written the article. Probably more profitable to sub contract, but in reality I cannot be bothered with the hassle. That is why I don't like hiring staff.
I do periodically dump clients when I have too much going on and too little time. I actually don't mind getting the clients in, and I don't mind signing them up, but its just the doing the work that I cannot be bothered with.
Thanks everyone who replied, and PM'd. I will respond to each one.
I have some of your contact numbers by PM, so if I do not get around to contacting you and setting up an agreement I will just tell the client to ring you. This first lot will be small fry anyway.
I am based in the North of England and I know that is a problem for a couple of people. However, for that level of fee I would never see the client anyway. Its only for more profitable clients I would meet them.
No they are not for a tax magazine. They are about tax for a magazine. I have written for tax magazines, but not this one. This one next month any accountant could probably do them. They would be pretty small fry. When I have done them myself I have charged anywhere between £1k and £1.5k. But I am trying to get away from doing work myself.
The one in a month or so would be bigger clients. When I have got enquiries from this source in the past I have just told them I was not interested but have suggested another firm. I have not charged the other firm but I am thinking that I can in the future, so just stop doing the work myself.
Rgab, what do you mean when you say you would want the lead to be "very warm"? If you are only paying the referral fee on billing the client what is the risk? I would not expect to receive anything if the client was not billed.
I have had some enquires by PM, so will respond to them all. Many thanks
Many thanks for the replies.
Ireallyshouldknowthis, did you have a written agreement with the firm which you passed work to? I believe that when claims farmers pass work on to PI solicitors they have a written agreement. I am not sure how the CFs find out whether the solicitor has taken on the client.
I would not intend to go very far down the securing the client route. I would be willing to have the initial chat with them, then pass them on to someone else. The ones that I tend to get would generally sign up anyway. What would the % fee be on this basis? I know that these ones are pretty small fry clients, so am not expecting miracles.
I have another article in a journal in a couple of months, but I know that these clients would be big. Too big for me anyway.
Many thanks for the replies.
Ireallyshouldknowthis, did you have a written agreement with the firm which you passed work to? I believe that when claims farmers pass work on to PI solicitors they have a written agreement. I am not sure how the CFs find out whether the solicitor has taken on the client.
I would not intend to go very far down the securing the client route. I would be willing to have the initial chat with them, then pass them on to someone else. The ones that I tend to get would generally sign up anyway. What would the % fee be on this basis? I know that these ones are pretty small fry clients, so am not expecting miracles.
I have another article in a journal in a couple of months, but I know that these clients would be big. Too big for me anyway.
Duplicate post. Will try to work out how to delete this one.