I’m currently in an odd sort of place with the business. I have enough work from clients to keep me busy, but I don’t want to get too comfortable in that scenario. It’s usually when you do that, that things will tend to fall through for you.

I’ve only lived in Vancouver for about 3 years now and while I’ve met a bunch of people, I don’t really know too many people outside of the tech sector. When I’m talking to techies, they’re not generally too interested in talking business and a lot of them aren’t in a position to do recommendations about consultants/contractors. It’s also difficult to get your face and name known in a local market, when all your clients aren’t in the same country.

Since leaving the UK, I’ve also lost the majority of business ties and leads that I’ve had which means that I’d have had difficulties on top of the time zone difference to garner business from there. So since I don’t have the same large local acquaintance pool that some of my friends have, I thought I’d try an experiment.

I will pay anyone who provides a referral to Cloudtone that leads to an actual business transaction, $100. You can use the form on the Cloudtone website, forward my e-mail address to a prospective while letting me know or even just introducing someone in person.

What do you think of this idea? Should I provide more information? Are people confused as to what Cloudtone offers?