Ya know Ron, that was uncalled for.
Wow, ripped apart on-list. Great atmosphere for getting some feedback
on a business idea.
Never again.
Hey Harnish, how about that ? Argh.
Ron Johnson wrote:
Guys
We have been support ISPs for over 10 years. Dialup, Cable, DSL, or
wireless. Yes it can get complicated. But then again it is our business to
know how to get the job done.
Give me a call if we can help you with your Tech support and Customer
service calls
O BTW we price ours at a much better rate that these guys you are talking
about.
Ron Johnson
President
National Support Center Inc.
800-203-7961
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mark Nash
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 6:53 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Tech Support Call Center Interest ?
Google GTC tech support. They are reasonable. Level 1 and level 2 techs
allow them to get their costs down. If you have something specifically for
wisps that would be more valuable.
But there is a lot involved in doing this on. As a new customer of yours, I
would expect you to familiarize your techs with my way of doing things so
you can be useful for my customers when they call.
My business partner owns a call center and we have looked at doing this a
little without much interest in taking the plunge to do it.
GTC had a hefty startup fee (I think it was $5k) to have one of their
managers get familiar with my system and develop training for their L1 & L2
techs. Then they took the number of subscribers we had and made the base
monthly fee ($1 x # of subs). That gives you (1 minute x # of subs) of
'tech time' per month. Any overage would be about $.60 per minute for that
month.
Not a bad deal. I didn't feel that the diversity of my system lent itself
well to a 3rd party tech support at the time, and since then everything I
have chosen to deploy has had a consideration given to 'Call Center Tech
Support'. Whether we do the tech support or not, it is worth it to spend
time and money to streamline tech support methods so we can hire support
personnel that are further down on the food chain.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:04:12
To:WISPA General List <[email protected]>
Subject: [WISPA] Tech Support Call Center Interest ?
I have a customer that just installed a $100k phone system and is lookin
for other uses.
Having experience in both call center mangement and tech support department
creation / operations and management, I've got half a mind to sit a
couple of
technical people down and start up a technical support call center and
answering service, with WISPs and ISPs in mind...
I've seen outrageous prices for this service, when lookin for my own
business,
and could probably beat a lot of pricing out there just by leveraging my
sister
company's purchase...
Any input ? How much is too much when it comes to per call / per minute
charges, etc....
Feedback would be great, and WISPA members would get discounts for using
the service...
R
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