Here’s an uncomfortable bit of math. If you’re an active agent, you make somewhere between five and fifteen professional recommendations a week — a lender here, a roofer there, an insurance agent for the buyer who just closed.
Each one creates real value for a business. And in most cases you’re paid for exactly none of it.
That’s the gap HipPocket closes. Here’s the 30-minute setup.
## Minute 0–10: Import your book
Export your contacts — from your phone, your CRM, that spreadsheet you swear you’ll organize someday — and upload the CSV or Excel file to HipPocket. Every contact gets a profile: notes, referral history, everything in one place.
Don’t curate. Import everyone. You cannot predict which contact needs a foundation guy next spring.
## Minute 10–20: Learn the partner directory
Browse the partner directory the way your clients would experience it: lending, insurance, contractors, title, inspection, home warranty and more. Each partner profile shows what they do, where they work, and — this is the part that changes your economics — **the potential value per referral**, in dollars or tokens.
Shortlist partners in the three or four categories you recommend most often. You’re not signing anything; you’re just learning your own menu.
## Minute 20–30: Send your first three referrals
Think of three people who recently asked you for a recommendation. Send each one to the right partner — it takes a few clicks, or one sentence to the AI assistant.
Each referral creates a pipeline entry that tracks from **Pending** to **In Progress** to **Closed**. When it closes, the partner’s fee is credited to your balance automatically. Withdraw via PayPal, Venmo, Cash App or Zelle whenever you like.
## What happens over the next 90 days
The first weeks are about habit: every time a recommendation leaves your mouth, it also goes through the platform. Then the pipeline starts to compound — because referrals don’t close on your schedule, they close on the deal’s schedule, and a system remembers what you’d forget.
Agents who stick with it describe the same shift: referrals stop being favors and become a quiet second income stream running underneath their main business — one that doesn’t require a license renewal, a listing presentation or a weekend open house.
You’re already doing the work. The only question is whether it pays.
*[Create a free HipPocket account] — the import button is on your dashboard.*