[CathRN]

Hi All.

I am starting an assignment soon, and was thinking "What a shame I wasn't referred to this position , so someone could get the $500 referral bonus"....then I realized, I had referred 3 or 4 different people into travel contracts, and never got my bonus. I think maybe it's time to start a referral trading network.

I guess it would work like this: I am starting with "ABC staffing" soon, I find another RN who works with them now, and then list him/her as my referral source. When I complete my contract, they get $500 , which we split.

Or if the company doesn't require the RN getting the bonus to be a traveler with them, then 2 RN's starting contracts around the same time could list each other and collect their respective bonuses.

Is this already being done? If not, let's start it now!

Any travel RN who works for American Traveler, Club Staffing, or RSI, please contact me so we can split this bonus.

ps- does this site really squeeze so confirmative that you can't say ****o, because of the h e l l in it? wow. that's sad.

[NURSEMOM]

i have wondered the same thing, it would sure be nice to have another bonus, i recently could have referred someone for a 3000.00 bonus. email me @ lynchrhonda@hotmail.com

[Aaron C.]

you know, this is something I thought of several years ago.

I bought the domain name referanurse.net at the time. The dot com version was already taken.

My idea was a number of sites signed up and the nurse registers and then refers another nurse to the companies by giving the companies the other nurses information, but then I decided that wouldn't work because how would you know that the referring nurse had the other nurse's permission?

Then I thought about having them register and sending the other nurse a link to sign up via an affiliate link.

THIS is why I have not continued with that idea:

If you post on these forums very often, or visit them frequently, you are likely to catch affiliate spam from companies like readyrecruit (readylink) or mobile medical staffing.

I spent quite awhile the other night deleting posts from a Mobile Medical Staffing Affiliate who basically made a post in 8 different forums with misleading topics and then offering nurses to go to that link.

It was blatant spam that clogged up the forums. By the time I had deleted all the posts and sent the user a message notifying them they they were BANNED and not welcome back, they'd already made an additional number of posts.

In the past, it was a huge problem here with readylink healthcare, but after many complaints by me, it has seemed to cease.

Now it appears, that MMS has taken up the program.

It would be a great idea if you could figure out a way to keep people from spamming. It makes a company look pretty bad when they have people spamming for them in my opinion, because you know it's going to happen when you start the affiliate program.

It has irritated me to no end that companies have started referral affiliate programs and then not beat to death the ANTI SPAM message.

Referral programs are great though, as long as it's like a word of mouth thing, rather than a click on an internet affiliate link.

Just my two cents!

As far as what you are suggesting, I think it could work, but how would you manage the money and the splitting of the money? It would have to be done via a third party somehow...