Brilliant Idea | What do you think? | A Fee Free Service Team

[Cristaf]

Hello MCM!

Everyone knows service teams. They are a nice simple, quick, and easy way to find a freelancer for a project of yours. On top of that, the freelancer gives you a great price... If it wasn't for the up charges and fees that come along with it. Freelancers have to give you a higher quote than they normally would because the company takes a % and the company adds fees to your order on top of all that. You're paying an extra %10-%15 sometimes, that's crazy! What if you didn't have to?

A service team without fees! No upcharges, no fees, no extra costs. Just the base price freelancers give you. The price they would on here. How does the company make money? Ads! Let's be honest, this is becoming more and more popular everywhere. Websites, Apps, and Programs, are all free nowadays because of ads. Think of your favorite mobile game or favorite blog, why is it free to read/play? Because there are ads. The idea is people will come flocking to your service team as it has no fees and you will be able to sell ad space on your Discord/website to make revenue. Not to mention revenue from premade products you buy from your freelancers.

To get crazier you could offer free credits on a website of sorts. People can watch ads to get free credits to use on products they purchase. This way someone can get something for really cheap then as it would take prices off the freelancers costs. Let me explain more. Someone watches a video and gets 3c. The advertiser paid you 5c/view. You keep 2c for the company and the 3c goes to the freelancer. Everyone still gets paid.

Makes sense? Cool idea or no?

 

[Theo J]

Cool in theory, probably difficult in practice. You would need a large consumer base to supplement the income that would otherwise come from fees.

 

[Negative]

I would gladly join any dev commission group which does this

 

[Cristaf]

I would gladly join any dev commission group which does this

Hense why I think Theo J problem is solved. Freelancers AND customers will come FLOCKING because of the no fees. Fees are such a huge issue and barrier it makes its so hard for both the consumers and producers.

 

[Theo J]

This topic is not new, however difficult to implement. Mainly due to PayPal fees no matter what there will be a fee of 3.49% + $0.25 each transaction.

Isn’t it 2.9% + 30 cents?

 

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Hense why I think Theo J problem is solved. Freelancers AND customers will come FLOCKING because of the no fees. Fees are such a huge issue and barrier it makes its so hard for both the consumers and producers.

Even if your right in people coming "flocking" (though I don't know that for a fact, even though it is likely that it will) as others have mentioned, your going to have a tough time making money. I don't know what types of ads your going to be doing, but based on the google Adsense revenue generator, you could make 2-6 thousand in ads per year with 50000 monthly page views and maybe an extra thousand a year in discord ads if you get a couple thousand discord members. Now you might be able to get a little more and put multiple ads, but even if you do that you are still going to have multiple costs such as advertising, making the website, hosting/managing/keeping up with the website as well as some staff cost (assuming that your going to have to settle some disputes about if they paid or got the full product, etc...). But thats assuming everything goes right and you actually get 50000 monthly views, which I doubt your going to be able to do as I don't think the demand for Minecraft related services is not much. While I might use the service if it pans out, I would think twice as it seems like a logistical nightmare. But on the other hand, a lot of other successful companies have been able to get through it, so if you can figure out how to get those 50000 views and manage the cost side, you could make a decent profit doing this.

 

[Theo J]

Even if your right in people coming "flocking" (though I don't know that for a fact, even though it is likely that it will) as others have mentioned, your going to have a tough time making money. I don't know what types of ads your going to be doing, but based on the google Adsense revenue generator, you could make 2-6 thousand in ads per year with 50000 monthly page views and maybe an extra thousand a year in discord ads if you get a couple thousand discord members. Now you might be able to get a little more and put multiple ads, but even if you do that you are still going to have multiple costs such as advertising, making the website, hosting/managing/keeping up with the website as well as some staff cost (assuming that your going to have to settle some disputes about if they paid or got the full product, etc...). But thats assuming everything goes right and you actually get 50000 monthly views, which I doubt your going to be able to do as I don't think the demand for Minecraft related services is not much. While I might use the service if it pans out, I would think twice as it seems like a logistical nightmare. But on the other hand, a lot of other successful companies have been able to get through it, so if you can figure out how to get those 50000 views and manage the cost side, you could make a decent profit doing this.

That number seems high…I collect adsense revenue and I don’t think I’d be receiving that amount for 50k views. I’ll have to double check my statistics.

 

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That number seems high…I collect adsense revenue and I don’t think I’d be receiving that amount for 50k views. I’ll have to double check my statistics.

There wasn’t an exact fit for the categories so it might be a bit off, but I put it there just for the sake of explaining.

 

[Cristaf]

This topic is not new, however difficult to implement. Mainly due to PayPal fees no matter what there will be a fee of 3.49% + $0.25 each transaction.

This is true. However, this is also true with meeting freelancers on here. The consumer pays Paypal fees.

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Even if your right in people coming "flocking" (though I don't know that for a fact, even though it is likely that it will) as others have mentioned, your going to have a tough time making money. I don't know what types of ads your going to be doing, but based on the google Adsense revenue generator, you could make 2-6 thousand in ads per year with 50000 monthly page views and maybe an extra thousand a year in discord ads if you get a couple thousand discord members. Now you might be able to get a little more and put multiple ads, but even if you do that you are still going to have multiple costs such as advertising, making the website, hosting/managing/keeping up with the website as well as some staff cost (assuming that your going to have to settle some disputes about if they paid or got the full product, etc...). But thats assuming everything goes right and you actually get 50000 monthly views, which I doubt your going to be able to do as I don't think the demand for Minecraft related services is not much. While I might use the service if it pans out, I would think twice as it seems like a logistical nightmare. But on the other hand, a lot of other successful companies have been able to get through it, so if you can figure out how to get those 50000 views and manage the cost side, you could make a decent profit doing this.

The biggest headache will be making the money back I put into it. Monthly operations however shouldn't be too high. Websites are cheap (i might even get one for free if I find a partner) and it does not cost the company anything to do daily operations. Yes, commission managers will have to be paid however with the lesser price, we will have to have a lesser support system. Meaning, one commission manager will manage 50+ tickets at a time and just take longer to respond. Hopefully that kind of makes sense. If the company makes $50/m in ad revenue, that's profit. Social media accounts are free to create and I can manage them, Discord servers are free, and I might be able to get a website free.

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On top of that, Id like to give ads to Minecraft server owners and Minecraft-related companies. With only Minecraft player seeing the ad, Minecraft owners and CEOs will be willing to pay more then google adsense,

 

[Gunny]

I see this as an incredible headache and impractical. Also, don't forget a large portion of users on here - such as myself - HATE service teams and I would much rather: work with an individual I probe first rather than joining a server/navigating a webpage, getting assigned a ticket or something, and then have to see if I actually like the work of the freelance I am then again assigned. It's so much easier and less work to view someone's person website or thread, and then initiate a 1 on 1 conversation skipping all the unnecessary steps..

Additionally, the amount of page views you would need is a substantial amount and is not something you get just cause of a good idea/wanted product. It is from lots of time, patience, meticulous work, and proper marketing. Don't underestimate the amount of traffic needed.

Lastly, how will you operate legally to cover your own legal costs? Or are you assuming you shall be dodging taxes and such? As the freelances also need coverage, pay stubs, etc for their own financial purposes. Are you qualifying them as freelancers or contractors? What legal entity are you going to form as (sole proprietorship still counts)? Etc etc

Again, to me, this is just a nightmare to deal with. It might work out and best of luck if you actually follow through with this. Just don't cut corners and do everything with dotted Is and crossed It's.

 

[ElusiveX]

Doing a Fee Free team. Good idea in thought. Bad idea if implemented as Gunny said above.

PayPal fees and your time. You would have to have a ton of traffic to be able to advertise on that scale..

I do agree that working with a single person is easy. But sometimes you could get a better price or an easier time. When going through a team you have the legal protection as freelancers and a refund policy unlike anyone who works alone. Most have a no refund policy and require payment upfront. Legal cost of covering ur butt would cost the most money in the long run.

Fee free teams will probably never be a thing.