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Old 03-28-2012, 10:59 AM  
mpahlca
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Originally Posted by TMM_John View Post
It's doable, but the vast majority of the time you'll get much lower production out of the remote employee. I know people will argue the contrary. They're more than welcome to burn all the money they wish

As far staff costs as a % of revenue; I don't believe you should ever try to mimic other companies or industry averages. Each company is going to have unique circumstances. Some may do quite well at half the industry average, some may need double. You need to look at many other things and figure out what is right for you, not try to mimic large companies.

TMM is also not SaaS. Our mainstream end of things is tho.
TMM is not Software as a Service? I thought you leased it and then charged for support? It may have changed so sorry if so.

As far as doing what others do I agree you should find your own way but not knowing what others are doing is a mistake IMO as you then don't know what others have done successfully.

Knowing and understanding others successful patterns doesn't mean you have to replicate them, it means you can see what others are doing and then improve on it. As I believe was the point of NATS in the first place. MPA was a product you did better than they did.

But again everyone is different (I am just super happy there has been some real discussion here on it.)
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