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Date Posted: 11:37:32 07/15/02 Mon
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Definition of REFERRAL CREDIT

I am a pageant director and offer referral credit towards entry fee to my pageant. I will always offer this credit because it definetly does help when moms are putting out apps and mailing them to people who would not otherwise had known about the pageant.
DEFINITION: Referral credit is meant to be payment for contestants advertising and bringing in contestants who would not have otherwise entered the pageant. A good example: You put out papers on another pageant's registration table, a contestant picks it up that has never heard of this pageant and enters. That is a referral.
People who get on the boards or ask around to find out who has already decided to go, but has never entered the pageant IS NOT A REFERRAL!! Directors know that people abuse referrals just as this lady is doing on this board, but there is no way to prove it, so they get away with it.
BUT JUST KNOW that you are taking advantage of all the other kids that have to pay! If all you have done is ask someone to put your child's name on an app that they ALREADY HAD is taking advantage!!! Don't get me wrong, I dont want to sound greedy because I do appreciate those that do work hard for it but it does bother me that some people can be so blatant about abusing the referral system. To AM's mom: I am sure you are a nice person and have a beautiful child but you cant blame people for being sour! As a pageant mom myself, it is sickening to have to pay and then someone else gets to slide in free without having to go to any trouble or effort. And another point: When a director begins budgeting a pageant they have to take into consideration how much everything is going to cost versus how many they anticipate to enter. Cost of pageant/# expected contestants = Entry Fee (or so it should) This is very hard to do because I always want to give away as much as I can and keep the fees reasonable. It is even harder when you know you will have several kids "working" on referrals, you dont know if they are really going to work on it and are going to pull atleast one real contestant or are they going to hunt around and find kids who were going anyway? If they dont pull any real contestants then you can just put them down as an additional expense! The budget goes up, the entry fees go up! Hopefully, there are some you can count on that will really pull new kids that will help balance the budget. See how hard it is to be a Director? I have even had moms wanting to use siblings as a referrals for each other!

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