what you need are 1 or 2 good trustworthy people (this can take time to establish) who have worked in each area of your business to help absorb your daily jobs. your right-hand man will be able to take over the bulk of your work but as always - good workers are hard to find.

Tam is a very hard working / reliable person ;) she'd probably do a great job!

This is no offense to you or Tam but just because someone comes out smelling like a rose from a previous scandal is absolutely no grounds to hire or partner with someone.

I speak from deep personal experience in this regard.

It is a basis, imo, to look twice as hard at that individual.

if I were you I would sell off pieces or get rid of people you have and higher better staff that have an incentive to work harder.

Also, you could get a office and not go into it, have a office manager that reports to you on what everyone is doing etc too.

Choker, I don't know if any of this will be helpful, but I hope it is not useless advice:

1. Look at what you can spread out to hourly wage workers, if that does not pull enough off you and your current staff then look at what you need in terms of a salary employee but then decide what that person will do and what skills they need to bring already vs what you will have to do to train them, of course, figuring in the cost of that too.

2. Run the numbers for outsourcing vs. hiring in house... each has distinct advantages and disadvantages but the fact still remains that you will be paying for it and someone will have to manage it - probably you if you want it done right and I know you do...

3. Have you looked at all possible angles to create greater efficiency with your current posse? Are all your regular tasks/processes/systems automated that can be either through software or personel efficiency training?

4. Do the math on hiring vs an independant contractor relationship.

5. Don't give up ownership. There is plenty of incentive in working with a growing and successful company that has a proven track record and a great reputation of which i mean you specifically.

Sure I can think of more but that is a start... flush the toilet on it if the advice stinks...

4pics said it right.... hire better staff and u really need someone who could report you with whats going on... chill man everything is gonna be fine! :)

* Note... by "hourly wage worker" I mean someone that is doing something that only requires limited skills and can be easily trained to do usually a repitive task. By "salary workers" I mean somebody that has highly trained and educated proficiency to develop ideas/products/sales/technology etc. The former is usually paid by the hour with limited benefits while the latter has better benefits and is paid by the year.

Choker I sent you a message via your system.

Yes lots of ways to go ...

50........ :stop

From what I have heard, Tam really had nothing to do with the scandal.....
those decisions, were made by management, and not Tam.

Tam, took the heat for it all...she was publicly available, because she ran the board...nothing more, and quit when she found out!!!

:2 cents:
~LL

isn't that an oxymoron ?

Number one lesson in life. Learn to say NO.

Please don't take away the ability for users of your system to control the traffic flow :(

This may sound like a really stupid idea
but have you thought about starting a training site
you have built up thousands of tgps. You could easily put together a great tutorial to help a newbie create their own tgp.

Walk them thru the process step by step. allow the affiliate code links within chockertraffic.com to work so that existing gallery buyers can simply link to the tutorial and get the commission.

If you trained people on how to build up a successful tgp using your traffic, you would expand both your buyers and sellers at the same time.

Very smart suggestion your thinking is above and beyond.
Impressed. =)

Choker I dont really know you but I do know buisness and growing to fast can kill anything.
Your fucked really and only 2 choices expand or raise prices to lower your customer base.
I have tryed both and theres no cut and dry deal here
Lowering your customer base means more less shit the same profit.
Expanding means finding good workers ,again really hard.
Rock and hard place and no real answers from me.
trying to find the right person is really the only option for expansion.

Be selective on who you let resell your traffic, but why let people resell?! Do you know they will able to? Is the market already deluted?

Tom,

My suggestion would be to setup distributor ships of choker traffic. Just like other business you have complete control of the selection process, can set strict guild lines, have price control, reward and promote your top performs, remove distributors accordingly.

Basically you would start a wholesale division of choke traffic seller. I would just screen carefully and have them clearly state that they are an ?authorized distributors?. By having authorized distributors you would protect your reputation should one of your distributors do the wrong thing. Obviously you would setup some type of back end system (hosted on e5 :)) that would allow you to immediately disengage a distributor should it be necessary.

I think I would be easer to manage 5 good disturbers vs. manage 5/10 new employees.

Regards,

Anthony