Gosh, this is cross posted in a lot of tribes! Every one I've opened so far today. Probably the Hoop Performers tribe is the best place to post this question. It's more in alignment with the purpose that tribe was created. (The header details the mission of each tribe.)

I already posted my response in two other tribes but I'll post it here too. This is the last place I am going to join in on this conversation and I apologize for my continued cross-posts.

I think the finder's fee is fair. There's more work to that than people realize. Phone calls, emails, networking, websites, contract negotiation, etc. Personally, I hate that stuff and I'm grateful when someone else is willing to do it. And what would we do without people to find gigs for us? Among my friends we regularly pass along gigs if we can't do them but if we do them together, whoever brought in the work gets a little more. It's great incentive to bring in gigs and recognizes and honors the work involved.

All participants should be able to pass out cards, even more so if one of them makes hoops and another doesn't. I'm not talking full on table promotions or anything. No one person should get more promotion than the group but also promotion as a group should not exclude individual's passing out cards. Promotion as a group should also include every member of that group, not just the one who got the gig. I don't know anyone else who has that arrangement. Just as it's important to honor whoever did the work to get the gig, it is also important to honor every person in the group and their unique contributions to the group. I don't see any reason why the person who got the gig should get a cut of hoop making. That is not income they generated. They simply generated a lead. (And when we stop passing on leads because we want to get paid for it, that's when we've stepped into the realm of being greedy and want to profit from other people's work instead of our own.)

Try not to focus on who has the most experience or who has invested the most in learning. Unless you are incorporated together, those things are individual expenses and you can write them off on your individual taxes, etc., but they are part of YOUR training, not your group's. They have little bearing on how you work together as a group. If you start going there then it's easy to start nitpicking and saying, "But I found the pants for our costumes.", "But I drove us there". "But, but, but..." You don't want to go down that road. It will nitpick your friendship apart. Agree that you work together. Agree that you are friends and that your friendship comes first. Agree to honor the person who finds and arranges the gigs by giving them little more. (10% is pretty much standard. Some people charge even more.) Agree to honor everyone in the group by allowing them to promote themselves and their other hoop-related interests also. In fact, agree to support each other by throwing work each other's way whenever you can! On a metaphysical level, that is how abundance returns to you multiplied. And never, ever, go behind each other's back to try to get a gig first or to try to take a gig away. That will destroy your friendship faster than anything else. Again, it's all about honoring each other's unique and valuable contributions. In order to be honored, you must honor others and act honorably. That's the place to keep your focus. That, and on the fact that you love each other.

Best of luck to you both.