It is a fair question. And the answer might surprise you.
Not as many as possible.
The temptation when you join RECOMMENDii is to build your list as fast as you can. More Recommendationships means more income. That is true, as far as it goes.
But the value of your list comes from the trust people place in it. And trust is not unlimited.
If someone scans your QR card and sees fifty businesses on your list, they might wonder how well you actually know all of them. If they see five, they might assume you know every single one personally. That assumption is more valuable than the extra income from forty-five more businesses you barely know.
The right number of Recommendationships is the number of businesses you can genuinely stand behind. Businesses you have used. Businesses you send your clients to. Businesses where, if something went wrong, you would feel responsible enough to follow up.
That number is different for everyone. For some RECOMMENDers it might be three. For others it might be thirty. There is no target. There is only honesty.
Before you send a Recommendationship request to a business, ask yourself a few simple questions.
If the answer to all four is yes, add them. If you are unsure about any of them, wait until you are sure.
A RECOMMENDer who builds slowly and carefully ends up with something genuinely valuable. Their list becomes known as trustworthy. The businesses on it benefit from that reputation. The people who follow their recommendations come back because those recommendations have never let them down.
That kind of reputation takes time to build. It takes almost no time to damage.
Build at the pace of your genuine experience. The income will follow.
Join free. Build your network. Get paid for what you already do.
Join as a RECOMMENDer