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Looking for a DJ? Need a roof fixing? Or how about a photographer? I all probability you will thumb through your local telephone directory and make a few calls, describing what you need to each potential supplier. Well if you live in the USA there is an alternative in the form of Respond.com. This neat little service does all the chasing for you and its free to buyers as Respond take a commission from the businesses they generate leads for.

Here’s how it works. You submit a simple request detailing what you are looking for. Respond then use their patented request-response technology to do the work of finding potential suppliers, filtering out those that cannot match your needs and then referring the most appropriate businesses. Respond are able to search and filter hundreds of suppliers and forward your request to only those that best match your requirements. Responses are sent to you usually within 24 hours and you decide which businesses you want to respond to. And what’s more, you are under no obligation to buy.

Repond have been hugely successful, and now boast over 13.5 million page views a year and over 5.5 million unique visitors a year.

If you are interested in starting a referral business of your own you should consider the respond Affiliate program. They will even let you publish their online enquiry forms directly on your site, free of branding, and you will keep around 30% of the referral commissions. Potentially not a bad little money earner.

www.respond.com