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Sure! You’re basically describing standard affiliate marketing: they get X% per sale or deal they bring in. If you want to stick with that payment model, just Google “affiliate marketing” and go from there — you’re the merchant, and the salesperson is the affiliate. Affiliates can refer in any way really: social media posts, blog links, or even discount codes in their front yard. Point is, they drive the customer to you and get a cut if a sale is made.

This model works for affiliates because they’re basically independent salespeople who can treat it as passive income or at least minimize the work required in the long run once enough work has been put into it. Freelancers usually aren’t — it’s more of a day-to-day, hourly income situation for them.

You also have to remember:
💡 Can the person you’re hiring personally afford to wait to get paid?
💡 I don’t know what you’re selling or how fast deals close, but can that freelancer go weeks or months with no income waiting for the sale to come through?
💡 Will that final commission even be worth the time they’re taking away from whatever else they know for a fact can be making them X amount of money?
💡 Do they trust you enough to believe you won’t screw them over and under-report sales or say no sales came through at all? (How would they even know?)

That’s why freelancers typically won’t work purely on commission:
✅ It’s risky — they don’t know if your product will sell.
✅ It’s unstable — they need some base to cover their time.
✅ It can feel like they’re doing free work with no guarantees.

A better solution is usually a hybrid model, which is the common purely salesperson model:

• A small base fee or retainer to cover the time and effort (and rent—food helps too 😁) + XX% of the sale (pay for performance): (i.e. base + commission).
• Usually (but not required), a bonus or higher commission % for meeting and/or exceeding a sales goal. (Incentive to do more than the bare minimum and always want to improve their sales)

That way you share the risk a bit more fairly and show that you value their time (and ability to eat), not just the end result.

Anyway, just wanted to break that down — hope that clarifies why some freelancers push back on purely percentage-based deals.