We hire the front office and accounting from another related company on a service bureau basis.
Our installers are our tower climbers. We hire a call center for tech support. We have two NOC guys on a full time basis. When I say started out like the rest of you, I started one customer at a time. Grass roots. Word of mouth advertising is what made us what we are. The telco relationship acutually hurts in the amount of extreme extra bookeeping we go to to prove that we are not getting any advantage of the relationship. ----- Original Message ----- From: Travis Johnson To: WISPA General List Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 8:49 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] when does a startup WISP become a successful WISP? Chuck, You didn't take into account the receptionists, accounting people, technical support (for email, DNS problems, etc.), supervisors, tower climbers, etc. Also, you didn't quite start out the same as the rest of us (because you gave away your first install time by saying "SM"). Our first install was a Lucent ISA 900mhz card running in a 386 PC with "BrouteIt" software in 1997. ;) Also, aren't you part of a telephone company? Travis Microserv Chuck McCown - 2 wrote: I have one taking care of 600. He works about 2 installs a day and 2 troubles a day. The growth is pretty flat in that town. I have another area where there are a few more and we have 2 installers and the growth is pretty steady. I have 6 installers taking care of 4000 in another area. They are hardly breaking a sweat. So, yeah I do have thousands. And I compete with Qwest and Comcast running full page ads in the paper mentioning us BY NAME. The question was when does a wisp become successful. Successful to me means about 25% ROI annually. No debt. 50% market share. Successful to you might mean that your WISP makes your mortgage payement for you as a part time venture. I started out the same as all of the rest of you guys. 4 APs and a dozen SMs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlon K. Schafer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] when does a startup WISP become a successful WISP? roflmao!!!! ONE person can't take care of 600 subs. Might work ok if you've got thousands and you do 600 per sub. In our case we have 120ish dialups, 60 or 70 fiber to the home and over 400 wireless and I have a gal in the office and I hire part time help when I have installs stacked up. So we're more in line with one body per 200 subs. I figure that a guy that keeps his day job and runs a part time WISP will make more net income than most any of us ever will. grin marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck McCown - 2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 6:32 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] when does a startup WISP become a successful WISP? 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