Friends with benefits: how referral schemes can really pay off

2026-01-31 - 11:25

Earn money and other rewards by linking friends and family up to companies you use, from banks to energy firms How much do you love your energy company – enough to recommend it to a friend? How about if £50 was up for grabs? Richard from Suffolk is a customer of Octopus Energy, and now eight of his family and friends are, too, after he recommended the provider to them all through its referral scheme. “I really think [referral schemes] are a good idea. It’s an incentive to swap – without it, I think people wouldn’t bother switching and would carry on as they were,” he says. Continue reading...