Re:Where Are All The Internet Sales Guys? (CarWoo YC S09)
by nhashem on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @03:12PM
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To use a baseball analogy, you're looking for a catcher that hits .300 and 30 HR. Catcher is one of the most defensively demanding positions in baseball. Finding a player with all those defensive tools AND that can hit at an All-Star level is incredibly rare, which is why players like Joe Mauer easily get $100MM contracts.
But as other people indicated, you don't need Joe Mauer on your team. You really just need to him to show up for a few weeks, teach you some basics and give you some tips, and you can do the actual heavy lifting yourself. 20% of this stuff is figuring out concepts like how you would build an effective SEM bidding system and determine whether it's working, the 80% is actually executing (ie. figuring out the bidding algorithm).
TLDR; Find a contractor, pay him enough per hour to make it worth his while, profit.
But as other people indicated, you don't need Joe Mauer on your team. You really just need to him to show up for a few weeks, teach you some basics and give you some tips, and you can do the actual heavy lifting yourself. 20% of this stuff is figuring out concepts like how you would build an effective SEM bidding system and determine whether it's working, the 80% is actually executing (ie. figuring out the bidding algorithm).
TLDR; Find a contractor, pay him enough per hour to make it worth his while, profit.