Opinions on service teams

[Petabyte]

Now I know that this is a pretty sensitive subject, you probably work for one or have done in the past like I have. Just tryna get everyone's opinions on if they actually find them useful over hiring a regular freelancer.

I personally find them pretty annoying posting copy and pasted comments on every thread you see, let me know what you guys think.

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[dawn]

The approach is annoying, but that’s just how service teams all of the world work. From phone adds to MCM comments it’s annoying but people get clients.

 

[Cal]

As an owner of many over a long term, I would like to put in some input.

Service teams get a bad rap based on the actions of weak or poor leaders. As many of you have noticed, there seems to be a new team in and out of relevance every week. I've been running teams for the better half of a year now, and have seen the same cycle repeat over and over. Big old name team surges back with large marketing campaign. Smaller teams surge up to copy after stealing the idea from the campaign with little to no research. Big team crashes in some scandal, management resignation or termination or big team gets sold to inexperienced manager. Little teams crash down with it leaving only a few left kicking.

The problem with a service team is it takes expendability to sustain it, which leaves many stranded. The cycle goes as follows: freelancers who have developed a skill will join teams as typically they cannot support themselves fresh off the boat. Those freelancers develop with the help of teams, eventually leading to them exiting teams and becoming self-sustaining. Once self-sustaining without a team they lack motivation or do not know how to continue due to lack of management and fade into obscurity.

The main problem people have with service teams is the nature of their advertising. However the principle sustaining services teams is that everyone makes more money the more they advertise that team. Spamming ads is the best way to get the word out about a team to as many people as possible thereby maximizing profits. It is irritating, but to those involved, it is mutually profitable.

As long as services remain profitable, service teams will remain.