Know someone chartering a yacht? There is money in it for you

It happens more often than people think. A couple is getting married and wants the photographs taken somewhere that isn't a park. A company has a client in from abroad and needs something better than another dinner. Someone turns fifty and wants it to count.

And then they ask you. Not us — you. Because you are the one people ask about that sort of thing.

If you send them our way, and it turns into a trip, there is something in it for you.

How it works

You get a code from us, and a link with the code built into it. Send that link to someone, and if they submit a request from it, we can see it came from you. If it becomes a booking, and the trip is run and paid for, your share follows.

The click is remembered for thirty days. People rarely decide on the spot — they look at the boats one evening, talk it over with the rest of the group, and send the request a week and a half later. It still counts as yours.

The thing to know: it's the link that counts. If they just mention your name in a free-text field, we have no reliable way of tying that back to you. So send the link, not just the address of the front page.

We agree the rate with you directly. It isn't the same for everyone, and that's deliberate — someone sending us two weddings a year is a different proposition from an agency building us into their proposals.

On most agreements the customer becomes yours. If they book again the following year and come straight to the site without using your link, your share still follows. You are the one who found them. We settle that when the code is set up, and it is written into the agreement you confirm, so you know where you stand.

Who this actually suits

Wedding planners, obviously. You know what's happening eight months before it happens, and you get asked about everything.

Photographers too, for the same reason. The fjord in evening light makes your job easier, and you're often the first person asked where the pictures should be taken.

Then there are the people who run corporate events. Conferences in Oslo need something to do on the afternoon of day two, and a yacht leaving from Aker Brygge solves that without anyone having to be bussed anywhere.

Hotel front desks and concierge services. Restaurants whose guests ask what to do tomorrow. Estate agents selling to people who like the water. Travel agents putting together group itineraries.

And individuals who simply know the right people. There's no requirement that you run a business. If you know three families who do this every summer, that's three families more than we would have reached.

When the money comes

Not when someone clicks. Not when someone submits a request. Not when we send a quote.

The money comes once the trip has been run and paid for. Not when it is booked — a booking can move or fall away right up to the day. Only when the boat has been out and the money is in do we know it actually happened, and only then is there something to share.

It's a slower model than the ones that pay per click, and that's a choice. Pay for clicks and you get clicks. We want people on board.

We keep track of what each code has led to, and you get that picture whenever you ask for it. Payment is made manually by us, against an invoice or whatever settlement we agree.

What we ask in return

Don't promise anything on our behalf. The price depends on the date, the numbers and the length, and a Saturday in July is a different animal from a Wednesday in May. Quote a figure that turns out to be wrong and someone ends up disappointed, which serves neither of us.

Don't spam. No bulk mailings, no comment sections, no bought lists. That damages our name faster than it earns either of us anything.

Tell us when something doesn't fit. If a group of fifteen turns up, we have to say no — twelve guests is the limit, and it's the regulations that set it, not the boat.

You get a page of your own

Once the agreement is in place you get a login. It holds the link you share, how many people have clicked it, how many requests came of it, and what has been earned — split into what has been paid out, what is ready to pay, and what is waiting for the trip to happen.

You don't see who booked or which boat they took. That's the customer's business rather than yours, and we don't think a referral should come with a view into somebody else's celebration. You see the month, the status and the amount.

And if something looks odd, there's still a person answering email.

Get in touch

Fill in the application form, or email post@yachtsnorway.no if you'd rather. Say briefly who you are and who you talk to day to day. If you're a photographer, say so. If you work at an agency, say which one.

We'll reply in kind, agree the rate, and set up your code. You then get a link to choose your own password, and you're into your own page. It rarely takes more than a day or two.

And if you're not sure whether it's for you, ask anyway. The worst that happens is we agree it isn't a fit.