So, I’m not making anything any more either, especially when you figure how steep their customer drop off rate is. Also, since they have such high credit requirements, only about 1 in 4 of my signups actually became paying customers.

The companies with the best retention are Pioneer and Opex. I don’t know if Unitel is paying their direct agents anymore, but they had pretty good retention too. But, they quit paying me over a year ago, and now owe me more than $20,000.00 in back commissions. They also had a crappy clause in their contract that actually made you pay back 10% more on bad debt than you had been paid.

If you are in a position to start rebuilding your business, I would do it with T1’s and other dedicated services. The guys over at Telarus, who own the ShopforT1 comparison engine, have a free training program. Once you make it through, they will give you the leads that come in through their system and then you can work them. You also get most of the commissions for closing the sales, and you know you’re going to get paid for years, because your customers sign contracts for the high speed, high dollar, stuff.

Greg
My ShopforT1.com link if you’re not already an agent with them.

We used to get stuff like that a lot, but it doesn’t hit the news very much any more.

Thanks,

Greg