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So, if we're not going to pay our people by the hour, what are the alternatives?

The key to this is finding ways to identify why you're employing somebody, and then adopting performance measures that reflect what you're expecting them to add to the business.

Using my role with ITVidya as an example:

I'm there, fundamentally, to have the business be successful. This means a number of things:

* Driving membership growth;
* Driving premium membership growth;
* Driving content creation;
* Increasing the "stickiness" of the site;
* Identifying and implementing partnerships that will achieve the above;