Was that $3 -$5 an hour a typo? ....perhaps $30 - $50 and hour? Hell, if the $3 is real, who needs them as programmers? I'd start a business to...
There are lots of good reasons to take care in choosing a programmer. Talk to their prior clients and verify that it's not a buddy of theirs....
You mentioned the concept of a protion of payment for services as a percent of the profitability of the system programmed. What is your lower...
Depends on the language you want it coded in. Something in general use like VB is less expensive. A good place to look for programmers is dice.com...
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