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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 but it's better left unpublished for now.
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