Warm Intro Etiquette: How Top Hunters Protect Their Relationships
Your network is your capital. The unwritten rules that let hunters monetize relationships without ever burning one.
The question every new hunter asks: won't monetizing my network damage it? The honest answer is — only if you do it badly. Hunters who've been at this for years follow a small set of unwritten rules, and their relationships are stronger for it, because a good introduction is a favor to both sides.
Rule one: the intro must be a gift
Before every claim, top hunters ask one question: is this meeting genuinely useful for my contact? If the product is relevant to a problem they actually have, the intro lands as a favor — you brought them something. If it isn't, no bounty is worth sending it. This single filter explains most of the difference between hunters whose contacts thank them and hunters whose messages stop getting answered.
Rule two: ask before you introduce
The double opt-in intro is non-negotiable: a short message to your contact first — what the company does, why you thought of them, zero pressure. Only after a yes does the introduction happen. It takes one extra message and preserves everything: your contact keeps control, the company meets someone who chose to be there, and your show rate stays in the 90s.
Rule three: be transparent about the arrangement
Hunters on Bountii present themselves as referral partners of the companies they work with — a completely normal commercial arrangement. What kills trust is concealment: a friend discovering later that a "casual recommendation" was a paid transaction. Transparency costs nothing at intro time and protects the relationship permanently. The strongest hunters find their contacts don't mind at all — they mind being misled.
Rule four: say no often
Every experienced hunter declines most of what they could claim. A network survives monetization at a sustainable withdrawal rate — a few genuinely good intros per contact per year — and collapses under spam economics. The paradox of hunting: the less willing you are to spend your relationships, the more they end up earning.
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