What would you pay a friend to submit galleries?
 

I was thinking of hiring a friend to do some gallery submissions. I would have to teach him the basics (he's never done anything like this before) so I'm wondering what would be a fair wage.

Would probably have him submit 2-4 galleries a day to paid accounts. Also have him crop pictures and do the gallery upload and shit like that after I teach him.

I did this with a friend before and paid him based per sale.

Obviously this may not work for you, but we split the profits 50/50 on all gallery sales.

Base + some percentage.
or
50/50 split.

$1 per gallery 100 gals per day min.. ;)

MY #1 RULE IN BIZ:

"Never EVER do biz with friends and/or Family.........unless u don't want to keep them as friends and/or Family that is!"

Yeah not not sure I'd go that route...considering I'd be fronting all the money for paid accounts.

I was waiting for this :1orglaugh

It's always a risk...less risky with just having someone do galleries for you then say promising a a big chunk of my overall business and taking on a friend as a real partner.

Best advice.

I don't know why you guys all want to have such complex relationships with your employees and friends. It can only lead to trouble. If your buddy needs work and you need help and you know the business, why don't you just put them on a part time salary, teach them what they need to know and give them the tools for x dollars an hour x hours per day or week. Eventually the traffic and sales will roll in and meanwhile you don't have to take on a grunt worker as a partner and make a regular accounting to him.

I was considering something alone those lines. Just unsure of what a decent wage would be. Don't want to underpay but obviously not overpay either.

Well for an inexperienced person it more or less depends on what you think is fair and what you can get away with. Is this person whip smart, personable, has a lot of skills and lives someplace like Orange County, CA? That person going to be a lot more expensive than your dullard buddy who has a personality like a rock, no skills to speak of and you are hiring him someplace like East Chicago, Illinois. Try $10/hr. maybe, if that seems reasonable to you.

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A hundred dollars a month

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I wonder what a poll like 'Have you ever done biz with friends and/or family and did it work out for you' would look like..

Also, besides being able to help out your friend by offering him this work, how does it help YOU? You'd probable be much better off with hiring a 'stranger'.

10 bucks an hour