It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been a recruiter.

It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been a Preferred Member of Top Echelon Network.

You can still make split placements with recruiters you haven’t made split placements with before.  Take, for instance, the recruiters featured in this week’s installments of “‘Comments’ and Compliments.”

These recruiters have been highly successful, both inside and outside of the Network.  However, they haven’t made a split placement with one another.  Up until now.

The fact of the matter is that you just never know where your next split placement in Top Echelon Network is going to come from.  It could be the result of a new Trading Partner relationship . . . and where there’s one split placement, there could be many!

If you’d like to thank another recruiter for their efforts in a split placement situation, send your information to marketing@topechelon.com.  Your comments might be included in an upcoming issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!

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“Angela rocks!  Thanks for the great candidate!”

Submitted by David M. Sgro, CPC of True North Consultants, Inc. regarding his split placement with Angela Marasco of A. Marasco Recruiting, LLC

Position Title—SMS APPLICATION PACKAGING ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Sgro and Marasco have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Trey, thank you for your great website!”

Submitted by Chris Ramsay, CPC of Corporate Resources, LLC regarding her split placement with Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Position Title—SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Ramsay and Cameron have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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Every week, when we run the split placements, we like to highlight recruiters who’ve made more than two placements in a single week.  After all, making one Network placement is cause for celebration, but two?  Break out the party favors!

This week, we have one recruiter and one firm that have accomplished the feat.  The recruiter is Marc Tappis of Opportunity Search, Inc., and the firm is Continental Search & Outplacement, Inc.  The recruiters who made split placements and are part of Continental Search are Dan Simmons, CPC and Jim Hipskind, CPC.

All three of these recruiters have been models of production during their tenures as Top Echelon Network Preferred Members, and that includes this year.  So far in 2012, Tappis has made five Network placements, Simmons has made four, and Hipskind has made one (he also made three in 2011).

Those are just three of the many recruiters who made placements this week.  In fact, it looks like we’ll need more party favors.  Hold on just a second . . .

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Marc Tappis of Opportunity Search, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Bob Small of Carroll Technology Services, Inc.

Job title: HELP DESK ANALYST

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Daniel Simmons of Continental Search & Outplacement, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Marc Tappis of Opportunity Search, Inc.

Job title: BUSINESS ANALYST

Fee Percentage—12.5%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Jim Hipskind, CPC of Continental Search & Outplacement, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Bob Ferris of Ferris & Associates, LLC

Job title: PROGRAMMER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Daniel L. Williams of The Williams Company

Candidate recruiter: Douglas Pajak of Alternate Route

Job title: QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: The job order or candidate was found by searching Top Echelon’s split databases.

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Job order recruiter: Amy Simpson of The James Allen Companies, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Mike McDonough of General Search and Recruitment

Job title: INTERNAL AUDIT MANAGER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Steve Kane of Bio-Partners Search Group, LLC

Candidate recruiter:Stephanie McGinty of Ives & Associates, Inc.

Job title: ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MARKET RESEARCH

Fee Percentage—Flat

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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If you’d like to see the amount of the fees associated with each of the split placements listed above, login to the Members’ Area and click on the profiles of the recruiters involved.  The fee totals will be included along with those split placements.

Remember, you can opt out of having your split placement highlighted.  Just send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com indicating your desire to be left out.  Once you do so, you won’t be included in future installments of this feature.

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What does the book The Three Musketeers and Top Echelon Network have in common?  Nothing, really.

But that’s not going to stop ME from making a connection.

The slogan of the Three Musketeers, of course, was “All for one, and one for all.”  Well, I’m going to tweak that slogan slightly for Network purposes.  Why?  Why not?

Not only that, but the recruiters in this week’s installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments” are making their first split placement with one another, proving that once again, it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been in the Network: you can still make splits with new recruiters.

So let’s change the slogan to “One for all, and all for one” . . . split placement, that is.  The truth be told, though, these recruiters probably won’t stop at one split—and of course, that’s a good thing.

They’ll make as many split placements together as they can, because once you make one, it’s easier to make more.

If you’d like to thank another recruiter for their efforts in a split placement situation, send your information to marketing@topechelon.com.  Your comments might be included in an upcoming issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!

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“Pete was great fun to work with!  I was in the ‘Springs’ visiting my daughter when I received the referral from Pete.  On the Tuesday after Memorial Day, the candidate was interviewed by myself and the client.  Within five hours of the initial contact, the position was filled!  It’s wonderful when you work with others who send you quality candidates, the client is very responsive, and the candidate is available for interviewing.  Makes placements fun!”

Submitted by Jeff Peters of Peters Search Group, LLC regarding his split placement with Peter Oettinger of Front Line Solutions, LLC

Position Title—PAYROLL SPECIALIST
Fee Percentage—Flat

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Peters and Oettinger have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Joe was right on target with this candidate!  Joe sent me the resume shortly after we posted the job order on TE.  Thank goodness he keeps an eye on the new job orders being posted on TE!  Cheers, Joe!”

Submitted by Veronica Snyder of Career Professionals, Inc. regarding her split placement with Joe Pelayo of Joseph Michaels International.

Position Title—PLANT MANAGER
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Snyder and Pelayo have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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There are a lot of great things about split placements.

One of them is this: it doesn’t matter if you’ve made your fifth split placement with another recruiter or your first, it’s still just as sweet.

It’s just as sweet working together during the process.  It’s just as sweet making the placement.  It’s just as sweet receiving your portion of the placement check.  And of course, it’s just as sweet spending your portion of the placement check.

In this installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments,” we highlight two pairs of recruiters.  One pair just made their fifth split placement together, while the other pair just made their first.

And the recruiters who made their first split placement?  They’ve been in Top Echelon Network for a total of 34 years and they’ve made a combined total of 145 Network placements, proving that it’s never too late to form new Trading Partner relationships.

The proof?  It’s in the placement.

If you’d like to thank another one of the Network’s job placement recruiters for their efforts in a split placement situation, send your information to marketing@topechelon.com.  Your comments might be included in an upcoming issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!

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“Teamwork paid off, as always.  Great interacton and collaboration with Stephanie from start to finish.”

Submitted by Steve Kane of Bio-Partners Search Group, LLC regarding his split placement with Stephanie McGinty of Ives & Associates, Inc.

Position Title—ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MARKET RESEARCH
Fee Percentage—Flat

(Editor’s note: this is the fifth split placement that Kane and McGinty have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Very fast turnaround by Bob on this search, who provided a terrific candidate.”

Submitted by Tom Thrailkill of Independent Personnel regarding his split placement with Bob Ferris of Ferris & Associates, LLC

Position Title—SALES ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—20%

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Thrailkill and Ferris have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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Summer’s almost here . . . at least as far as the calendar is concerned.

But why wait?  Let’s have a “Summer Split Placement Party” right now!  After all, the weather’s nice, and a bunch of Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiters were good enough to make split placements this week (see below).

As you can see, there’s a variety of reasons for the split placements we’re highlighting this week.  A third of them can be attributed to Hiring Hook Websites, while over half of them are the result of regular communication between Trading Partners.  (That makes sense, of course, since Communication is one of the Four Pillars of Top Echelon Network.)

The truth be told, anytime is a good time for a “Split Placement Party.”  It doesn’t have to be summer—although it certainly helps if you want to go swimming . . . which I don’t . . . but thanks for asking.

So keep making split placements.  I’ll put some steaks on the grill and fill up the cooler.  We’ll party hearty.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Cindy Sommer of SearchStars, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Jim Strickland of BioSource International

Job title: SONOGRAPHER

Fee Percentage—Flat

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook Website.

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Job order recruiter: Bob Millman of AutoPro Technical Recruiting

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: PAINT OPERATIONS MANAGER

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Pat McCombs of KB Search Team, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Justin Bidwell of Bidwell & Associates, LLC

Job title: MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: The job order or candidate was found by searching Top Echelon Network’s split databases.

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Job order recruiter: Jeff Ploegeer of Ploeger Recruiting Services

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: SENIOR MANAGER OF PRODUCT PLANNING

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook Website.

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Job order recruiter: David M. Sgro of True North Consultants, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Linda Gutekunst of LRSolutions, LLC

Job title: IT SECURITY ENGINEER

Fee Percentage—Flat

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Matt Scheihing of J. Miles Personnel Services

Candidate recruiter: Susan Christian of PRI Business Services, Inc.

Job title: QUALITY SUPERVISOR

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Brandi Moegelin, TSC/CSP of Premier Employment Solutions

Candidate recruiter: Travis Jones of Career Development Partners

Job title: CONTROLLER

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook Website.

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Job order recruiter: Juli Smith of The Smith Consulting Group, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Peter Oettinger of Front Line Solutions, LLC

Job title: EPIC OPTIME CONSULTANT

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: The job seeker or client was found through my Hiring Hook Website.

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Job order recruiter: Lori Caldwell-Noonan, CPC/CIR of DRC, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Eric Berg of JN Adams & Associates, Inc.

Job title: LEAN FACILITATOR

Fee Percentage—23%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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If you’d like to see the amount of the fees associated with each of the split placements listed above, login to the Members’ Area and click on the profiles of the recruiters involved.  The fee totals will be included along with those split placements.

Remember, you can opt out of having your split placement highlighted.  Just send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com indicating your desire to be left out.  Once you do so, you won’t be included in future installments of this feature.

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Yes, The Avengers is well on its way to becoming one of the most financially successful movies of all-time.  But in Top Echelon Network, it’s the “super recruiter heroes” who save the day.

These network recruiters don’t have a cape.  That’s not what makes them heroes.  They have the candidates—and that’s far more important than a cape, at least as far as their grateful Trading Partners are concerned.

In this installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments,” we highlight two recent split placements in which a recruiter presented a candidate to their Trading Partner, a candidate that the Trading Partner’s client loved and eventually hired.

When it comes to fighting bad guys and saving the universe, you can leave that job up to The Avengers.

However, when it comes to filling a job order with a hard-to-find candidate in a short amount of time, you can leave that job up to your Top Echelon Network Trading Partners.

If you’d like to thank another member of the recruiter split fee network for their efforts in a split placement situation, send your information to marketing@topechelon.com.  Your comments might be included in an upcoming issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!

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“Justin directly recruited an awesome candidate for this JO!  Thanks, Justin, for finding the ‘perfect’ candidate for one of my best clients!”

Submitted by Pat McCombs, CPC of KB Search Team, LLC regarding her split placement with Justin Bidwell of Bidwell & Associates, LLC

Position Title—MANUFACTURING ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: this is the second split placement that McCombs and Bidwell have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Tim, thank you for supplying Doug.  You made me look like a hero—the company really likes him!”

Submitted by Mike Lupidi of M.J. Lupidi & Associates, Inc. regarding his split placement with Tim Hopkins, CPC/CTS of Stephens International Recruiting, Inc.

Position Title—FINISHING SUPERVISOR
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: this is the first split placement that Lupidi and Hopkins have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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A while back, we reported that a total of 24 recruiters have made 100 placements or more in Top Echelon Network.

We also reported that a recruiter was close to being the 25^th recruiter to accomplish the feat.  That recruiter is Steve Brody of Executive Resource Systems.

At the time, Steve had 95 Network placements, but he recently made another one.  While it’s true that the placement in question was a Hiring Hook  recruitment website design placement, Steve is a Preferred Member, so he reported it for Frequent Placer Point (FPP) purposes.

However, that also pushed him to 96 placements, meaning that he’s one step closer to being the 25^th recruiters with 100 or more placements—right before Top Echelon Network celebrates its 25^th anniversary!

Steve wasn’t alone, though.  Below are all of this week’s placements.

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETED SPLIT PLACEMENTS!

Job order recruiter: Steve Brody of Executive Resource Systems

Candidate recruiter: Steve Brody of Executive Resource Systems

Job title: AUDIT SENIOR

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Web candidate – no commission owed to TE, but eligible for FPP

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Job order recruiter: Chris Ramsay of Corporate Resources, LLC

Candidate recruiter: Trey Cameron of the Cameron Craig Group

Job title: SERVER ADMINISTRATOR

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: The job order or candidate was sent to me via the automated email alerts.

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Job order recruiter: Marc Tappis of Opportunity Search, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: >Bob Small of Carroll Technology Services, Inc.

Job title: IT SERVICE DESK

Fee Percentage—20%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Bob Wylan of R.A. Wylan & Co., Inc.

Candidate recruiter:Jim Crumpley of Jim Crumpley & Associates

Job title: SENIOR MANAGER OF PRODUCT PLANNING

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Georgette Sandifer of Gallman Consulting

Candidate recruiter: Larry Radzely of Adel-Lawrence Associates, Inc.

Job title: MANUFACTURING COST ACCOUNTANT

Fee Percentage—Flat

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Mike Lupidi of M.J. Lupidi & Associates, Inc.

Candidate recruiter: Tim Hopkins, CPC/CTS of Stephens International Recruiting

Job title: FINISHING SUPERVISOR

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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Job order recruiter: Michell Luna of Expert Executive Recruiters

Candidate recruiter: Brandon Wofford of Corporate Resources, Inc.

Job title: ACCOUNT MANAGER

Fee Percentage—25%

Action causing split placement: Regular communication with another Top Echelon Network Preferred Member recruiter

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If you’d like to see the amount of the fees associated with each of the split placements listed above, login to the Members’ Area and click on the profiles of the recruiters involved.  The fee totals will be included along with those split placements.

Remember, you can opt out of having your split placement highlighted.  Just send an email to marketing@TopEchelon.com indicating your desire to be left out.  Once you do so, you won’t be included in future installments of this feature.

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This week’s installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments” illustrates perfectly why it pays to form Trading Partner relationships with other recruiters.

And pays . . . and pays . . . and pays.

That’s because the four recruiters featured this week have made a total of 13 split placements together.  When you make one split placement with another recruiter, chances are good that you’ll make more—and these recruiters are prime examples of that.

In addition, their potential for making splits in the future is unlimited.  They know each other well, they know how they work together, and they’re comfortable with the process and one another.

It’s a tried and true formula for making more money—and these recruiters have perfected the formula.

If you’d like to thank another recruiter for their efforts in the recruiter split fee network, send your information to marketing@topechelon.com.  Your comments might be included in an upcoming issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!

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>“Terry and Mary Beth yet again had a good understanding of what my client was looking for and sent an A+ matched candidate, so we were able to get an interview and offer/acceptance VERY QUICKLY.  Let’s do a few more like this!”

Submitted by Suzanne Griffith, CPC of J S Griffith & Associates regarding her split placement with Terry Rhodes of newcareers

Position Title—SENIOR MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—25%

(Editor’s note: this is the fourth split placement that Griffith and Rhodes have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Way to go, Bob.  Candidate was dead-on!  Always great to work with you.”

Submitted by Marc Tappis of Opportunity Search, Inc. regarding his split placement with Bob Small of Carroll Technology Services, Inc.

Position Title—SENIOR MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEER
Fee Percentage—20%

(Editor’s note: this is the ninth split placement that Tappis and Small have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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Here at Top Echelon, we like to have fun.  We like to not take you too seriously.  I’m sorry—what I meant to say is that we like to not take ourselves too seriously.

With that in mind, we’re soliciting your help in the creation of a future Top Echelon e-Book.  The reason we need your help is because we want your “tales from the trenches.”

We would say that we want your “Tales from the Crypt,” but I’m pretty sure that phrase has already been trademarked.

Besides, “tales from the trenches” is more accurate.  Recruiters definitely feel like they’re in the trenches most days, whether they’re making marketing calls to cranky hiring managers, trying to reach a candidate who hasn’t shown up for their first day on the job, or calmly explaining to a client why their first choice already accepted another position because they didn’t move quickly enough.

If you’ve been a recruiter for any length of time, you have some tales to tell, perhaps many tales.

Here’s the deal: send us your “tales from the trenches” via email at marketing@topechelon.com.  By doing so, you give us permission to publish your tale of woe in our e-Book.

Keep in mind that you can remain anonymous.  In other words, you can submit your tale, but request that we withhold your name and firm name for privacy reasons.

What we’ve discovered is that recruiters enjoy reading about other recruiters’ “tales from the trenches.”  That’s because they’ve been in the trenches themselves, and they can relate to these headhunter horror stories.  They share a common bond, one built upon frustration, stress, and exasperation.

However, these tales aren’t just about that.  They’re also a way of celebrating—specifically, celebrating the fact that no matter what crazy things might happen, you’re still standing.  You’re still a recruiter, you’re still making money, and you still love what you do.

When all is said and done, that’s a tale with a happy ending.

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There’s so much to like about this week’s installment of “‘Comments’ and Compliments” that it’s almost difficult to keep track of it all.  Almost.

First, the recruiters involved met face-to-face at the recent Top Echelon Network National Convention in Nashville, Tenn.  That meeting helped to further strengthen the bond of their Trading Partner relationship.

Second, that strengthening is evidenced by the fact the recruiters have made a pair of split placements since returning from the National Convention.

Third, the recruiters involved have now made three split placements together and are primed to make more in the future.

Fourth, add two tablespoons of salt, then mix on high for 60 seconds . . . no, wait.  I got my notes mixed up.  Hold on.  Okay, here we go.  Fourth, the second of these two split placements refers directly to the Geico Piggy, and when you think about it, how much better can it get than that?  Not much, my friends, not much.

If you’d like to thank another recruiter for their efforts in a split placement situation, send your information to marketing@topechelon.com.  Your comments might be included in an upcoming issue of The Pinnacle Newsletter Blog!

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“Pete is a great teaming partner!  This placement is all that much sweeter, having just met him and his wife in Nashville at the [Top Echelon Network National Convention]!”

Submitted by Julie Smith of The Smith Consulting Group, LLC regarding her split placement with Peter Oettinger of Front Line Solutions, LLC

Position Title—EPIC OPTIME CONSULTANT
Fee Percentage—20%

(Editor’s note: this is the second split placement that Smith and Oettinger have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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“Thanks for another split placement, Pete!  I am yelling the Geico Piggy ‘WEET WEET WHEEEEE!’ all the way to PNC . . .”

Submitted by Julie Smith of The Smith Consulting Group, LLC regarding her split placement with Peter Oettinger of Front Line Solutions, LLC

Position Title—MCKESSON CONSULTANT
Fee Percentage—Flat

(Editor’s note: this is the third split placement that Smith and Oettinger have made together in Top Echelon Network.)

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