Imagine walking to your local park and finding a thousand hungry people stood around discussing where to get food.

Interested to know why there is a one thousand hungry people in your local park, you stop and ask one of them.

It turns out that they are all pizza lovers on their way to a large pizza festival but thanks to a printing error on all of the flyers and adverts, they have all ended up in the wrong park in the wrong town.

Desperate to eat some pizza and to rescue the remains of the day, the guy you are chatting to asks you where the nearest pizza restaurant or takeaway is.

Fortunately, there is one not far away and even more fortunate is that it is owned by your friend Bob.

You quickly call him and tell him that you know where there are one thousand hungry pizza lovers and ask if he would like you to send them his way.

He says ‘absolutely’, then you tell him that you would like a slice of each pizza he sells to the people you send his way… not an actual slice of the pizza obviously.

Bob agrees to pay you 50% of any sales he makes to people who give him your name.

You climb onto a park bench and at the top of your lungs you shout to all one thousand people:

“Can I have your attention please?! For those of you who are hungry and want to eat the tastiest pizzas in the area please follow me. I shall take you to a wonderful little family run pizzeria not far from here where all pizzas are freshly made by hand.”

You jump down from the bench, raise your hand in the air and walk towards the park gate eagerly followed by a line of hungry pizza lovers.

You walk down the street, around the corner and the short distance down the hill until you hit the town centre stopping outside Luigi’s Pizzeria where your friend Bob warmly greets them, gleefully rubbing his hands like Arkwright from ‘Open All Hours.’

Customer after customer enters the shop ordering pizzas saying ‘[your name] brought me here.’

Every pound earned from those customers is placed into a dedicated till for all sales associated with you.

When the last pizza is handover to the final customer and doors to Luigi’s is closed for the day, Bob counts the money from that till and divvies it up into two piles.

Bob has had the best day of the year, not only did he sell out within a few hours, he sold out of the extra stock he sent one of his staff to buy when he spotted how many people were following you down the hill.

Bob is delighted to find that he made an extra £2,000 profit for the day from all of the extra customers you sent his way.

Bob thanks you and hands you over a wad of cash; your share of the profits.

You leave Luigi’s with a pocket full of cash and head back for home. A quiet walk to the local park and back resulted in you earning a nice £1,000.

That would be nice wouldn’t it?

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