Nope on signing up. Yes on literature. but it is simply business cards and pamphlets.. if needed I guess I could pay for those and have them pick them up at officemax or wherever I have them printed.

Since the salesperson would be an independent contractor receiving no salary or other benefits, I think you have to go the $30.

BTW, are you viewing this as a full time position?

If it turns out to be as easy as you think it is, you might be able to reduce the pay to future hires.

Let me know when you get to Albuquerque. I love easy money!

Yeah but that is a secure 12 month deal, so its okay.

Eh hem....If you need printed supplies, let me know. Thats what I do. Office Max is a big ripoff.

Just keep it reasonable... so, when do you share the details on your li'l venture?

That is actually the kicker... the owners/managers I have spoken to that GET IT, have ALL agreed that $100/month is way too low to charge... BUT knowing that MOST will not get the value right away... I am setting the price point low enough to make it a no brainer for most.

For people that are genuinely interested... shoot me a PM and I will discuss it in further detail if you want. I am hoping to get this rolling nationwide fairly quickly. Kinda funny that my first expansion market is overseas...

PM sent.

If you need a strong representative in the Phoenix/Scottsdale market drop me a line.

How much can you bench press?

I'm dead serious. I'll shoot you a PM. We can lock Seattle/Portland down.

I sent a brief PM. I get home around 4pm PST. Let me know if you want to talk in more depth. I know you're still working on getting things together, but whenever you're ready I am.

PM sent...
I vote the $30 option. :D

OK, without getting into details publicly (want to hold off on that for a bit).. the structure is as follows...

you have 3 layers to the business...

sales - duh
maintenance - the BULK of the work
development - ME! (this is where most of what makes the service very hard to replicate easily come from)

a very ROUGH estimate of compensation is as follows...

20% sales / 60% maintenance / 20% backend, devel, support, etc

In Austin, I am all three at the moment... (hot saleschicks in the area are welcome to apply at all hours)

In Ireland this is split into a saleperson in Belfast who gets 20% a saleperson in Dublin who gets 20% and the maintainer who gets 65% (the extra 5% is because they have to handle more of the business than normal due to being in a different country and whatnot) and finally the backend gets 15%.

As this (hopefully) expands to more cities this can be split into 2+backend or 1+backend ... depending on how much a person want to handle.

For example, I PROBABLY have someone lined up for Boulder/Denver. He will handle sales AND maintenance and receive 80% of each sale. (not sure what percentage of setup fee... either 80 or possibly 100%)

The great thing is that if I don't have a maintenance person in that town (preferred) I can handle it all from here. There are no ONSITE visits required.

The maintenance side of thing is very very easy, but does require being "on call" (near a computer with internet) most of the time.

If anyone thinks it's a good idea.. I can setup a conference IM or chat .. I just don't want the details out just yet.. it isn't ground breaking.. but it's better left unpublished for now.

That's the deal. I would be interested in sales/maintenence. I'm a relationship developer, and not only is it added income, but it's an opportunity to keep that relationship strong every time maintenence is required.

Obviously as things blow up, you're going to have to have someone fill the 2nd role. Again, choose wisely.

This isn't one of those bar-type Bible Trivia games, is it? I don't know anything about Dublin, but I don't think that will fly here.

ok, anyone interested in me setting up a private chat room and going over the details of this? Let me know and I will get one going and PM the address to you guys.