Isnt mentoring revenue proportional to MSF revenue?
Yes, and this would derive from an extension of MSF pricing. This is revenue to pay part-time mentors for assisting (jump-starting) new users who would often not be programmers. Mentoring is evangelistic sales support that spawns new applications by having a mentor show a client how to setup the client’s model in meta calculus. It leverages problem-solution success and reduced time to solution, because it exploits the synergy of the mentor’s knowledge of the tool and the client’s knowledge of his problem to bypass both learning curves. Since immediate value is demonstrated, this charge is easily justified to the client organization as value in creating a new application plus defrayed learning cost. It is a one-time charge because the client seldom needs mentoring after the initial success. This is a brand reseller charge, where the reseller contracts the mentor labor out to the franchisee consulting matrix. Also this charge is marked up by the reseller. Mentoring charges would be engag