Top Echelon Network Policy 16
Issue: Honoring a job order referral
Date: 11/01/94
Once you’ve accepted and acknowledged acceptance of a specific job order from another Member, honor that job order referral no matter how (or when) you later "receive" that job order on your own. You should turn away all other subsequent referrals of the same job assignment from any other sources. If you have accepted the job order information from a Member and shortly thereafter the client, or another Member, calls you directly to work on the assignment, you should let the client know you are already committed to work that job order through the Member who first made you aware of the opening.
Spirit of this Policy
Once a Member has shared his confidential job order
information with you, he is entrusting you with that information so the two
of you will make money together. Once you have accepted that job order information,
you have made an implied commitment to him that the only way you will work on
this job assignment is through him. At times, there will be circumstances that
may tempt you into believing that you no longer need to honor his referral because
you believe "you got the job order on your own accord." Be
forewarned: Top Echelon Network strongly encourages you to ignore such temptations
because it is our feeling that once you’ve accepted a specific job order
from a Member, you should honor that referral of that specific job order forever
and turn away all other referrals of the same job assignment. We say this because
without this type of commitment from you, it is certain that Top Echelon Network
Members won’t be able to entrust you with their job orders, thus defeating
the purpose of networking.