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Wow, 750 paying subscribers at a minimum of $10 = $7500/month for a total of 6.25 hours of work time (lets triple it to be conservative and take into account di
by coryl 16y ago
Wow, 750 paying subscribers at a minimum of $10 = $7500/month for a total of 6.25 hours of work time (lets triple it to be conservative and take into account dialing/redialing/waiting).
Thats a working wage of about $416/hour. I assume he has zero advertising and negligible hosting costs. But something like this, I'm sure there must be advertising, can't ALL be viral...can it?
- houseabsolute 16y agoPffft. I'd farm the work out to mechanical Turk. Then you don't even have to do the work yourself. :) Much more scalable and less annoying too. You could even have them call you occasionally for verification they're really putting their hearts into it.
- petercooper 16y agoEven better, offer a discounted service to people who agree to make a few calls themselves ;-) It could run itself.
- jacquesm 16y agoNow that is really smart! But you could end up in a chatroulette style situation pdq too.
- houseabsolute 16y agoHey, there's actually another reason that's smart too. Apparently having positive emotions toward other people makes it more likely for you yourself to be happy. So maybe having these people call others to tell them how great they are would have even more of an effect than the initial service offered.
- Estragon 16y agoQuality control would be quite a challenge. The occasional verification call wouldn't cut it.
- erikpukinskis 16y agoHow'd you do your math? The sample calls they play are 30 seconds long. Assuming another 30 seconds for looking up the number and waiting for them to answer, that's 1 minute per call. 750 calls a day for 20 days (assuming they don't call on the weekend?) that's 250 hours of calls in a month... which is only $30/hour.
- coryl 16y agoYou're right, I thought they only called once a month lol