MVRK starts its seventh fiscal year with seven team members operating from six countries. The CRM strategy and implementation consulting agency mainly does business in the USA, Canada and the UK, where none of its team members live. Its owner describes working solo for the business’s first three years, finding talent through Reddit and offering extended initial-term contracts to candidates who are a good fit.
MVRK’s team works outside its three main markets
MVRK, a CRM strategy and implementation consulting agency, starts its seventh fiscal year with a team of seven people operating from six countries. The owner describes a distributed team alongside a business focused on CRM strategy and implementation. The headcount and locations describe the team itself, while the agency’s main operating markets are a separate part of the account.¹
The agency mainly does business in the USA, Canada and the UK, and none of its team members live in those three countries. The owner’s account therefore places the team in six countries while drawing a clear distinction between its members’ locations and the countries where MVRK mainly operates. The description does not identify individual team members’ countries.¹
The owner began solo and describes a full CRM implementation
The owner says they operated fully solo for the first three years of running the business. The account also describes implementing an entire Salesforce CRM system from the ground up for a recruitment agency based in the Philippines. It presents the system build as a project example, specifying both the CRM involved and the agency’s location. The account does not connect that project to the decision to hire or to the later team’s geographic spread.¹
The agency mainly does business in the USA, Canada and the UK, and none of its team members live in those three countries.
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Read More →The owner says the first hire remains a member of the team and describes getting quite lucky with that hire. The detail establishes a continuing connection between the first person hired and the current team. It does not identify the person or their role, so the account’s specific point is the continuity: that first hire is still part of the team.¹
Reddit requests lead applicants to a form first
The owner describes Reddit as an incredible source of talent. The process starts with a request for talent in a relevant Reddit community, with the community’s rules followed. People responding to the request are asked to fill in a form as their first step. That makes the form the initial stage of the stated process, before the owner uses the standard vetting process.¹
After vetting, the owner offers extended initial-term contracts to candidates who are a good fit. The account identifies two parts of the selection process: standard vetting and a longer initial contract for those who pass as a fit. It does not provide a contract length or describe the criteria used in vetting, but it does state the sequence from a Reddit request and form to assessment and an offer.¹
Hiring estimates cover time, cost and contractor paperwork
A DIY hiring estimate says founders spend more than forty hours and more than $6,000 in opportunity cost before making a single offer. A separate remote-work figure puts average annual overhead savings at $11,000 per remote employee. The figures refer to different costs: the first concerns founders’ time and opportunity cost during hiring, while the second concerns overhead savings per remote employee. Neither figure is presented as MVRK’s own spending or savings.²
Other hiring figures compare roles and arrangements. A US-based EA equivalent costs $65,000–$80,000 a year before benefits, payroll taxes and office costs. An SDR in South Africa or the Philippines can work US time zones, communicate fluently in English and carry out a repeatable outbound sequence at 60–70% of the US equivalent cost. A managed remote-hiring model is described as saving about $95,000 a year per role compared with US in-house hiring, with zero payroll tax exposure.¹²
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Read More →For international contractors, the stated paperwork requirement is to collect a W-8BEN form from each person before the first payment. The consequence given for not collecting it is a default 30% IRS withholding rate. This requirement is separate from the cost comparisons: it concerns what must be collected before payment, while the other figures compare hiring costs, role costs or overhead. The account specifies both the form and the timing tied to payment.²
Hiring estimates cover time, cost and contractor paperwork A DIY hiring estimate says founders spend more than forty hours and more than $6,000 in opportunity cost before making a single offer.
Price Remote Roles Against US Benchmarks
When you negotiate a remote role, anchor your salary to the US equivalent, not local rates. An SDR in South Africa or the Philippines can work US time zones and run a repeatable outbound sequence at 60–70% of the US cost, so a US-based employer has room to pay above local market while still saving. Ask for that gap explicitly, and use the $65,000–$80,000 US EA benchmark to justify a higher band if your role is administrative.¹²
If you hire internationally, plan for compliance costs and time. Collect a W-8BEN form from every contractor before the first payment, or face a default 30% IRS withholding rate — a mistake that erases your savings. Also budget for the hiring process itself: founders lose 40+ hours and $6,000+ in opportunity cost before a single offer, so a managed remote-hiring model that saves about $95,000 per role per year may justify its fee.¹²
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