Re: [AFMUG] support for customer IoT

[Bill Prince]

Inflation. Bill's general rule of inflation is that the cost/price of everything doubles every 10 years. Something that you could buy in 2008 for $1 is about $2 today. It's not consistent, as some things follow the rule, some things under perform, and somethings over perform. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 12/20/2018 4:17 PM, Adam Moffett wrote: How many people take you up on that? When I did managed routers for $5/month we sold that to about 40% of internet customers.....but we weren't trying hard to sell them.  $10/month sounds like a lot, but maybe I'm wrong. On 12/20/2018 5:01 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: We have no problem renting 844 routers for $10/month all day long.  We have thousands of them out on this plan and our CSRs get a spiff for pushing them.  Easy money.  And really a great deal for the customer that wants the peace of mind that it offers.    From: Mark Radabaugh Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2018 2:47 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] support for customer IoT     Sell a managed router service for whatever you think it’s worth.   If the customer pays for the service help them get it working.   Unfortunately if they don’t pay for it you still get to help them :-)    With any kind of luck you make enough off the customers paying that you never hear from that it makes up for the ones that make you crazy.   Mark     On Dec 20, 2018, at 2:16 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:   I got my first support request today for a customer hooking up a robot vacuum.  I guess people need to check remotely during the day to see how the vacuuming is going?  Or the vacuum wants to watch Netflix?  Anyway, vacuum company support is telling him it’s a firewall problem.  Of course, it’s always your ISP is blocking it.  I’m guessing he hasn’t even gotten it to connect to his WiFi.   Anyway,  what do you guys do as far as support for smart vacuums, toasters, light bulbs, etc.?  I can see this getting out of hand real quick, as people buy dozens of little Internet connected appliances, and want to call their ISP each time.  A lot of these may be $25 impulse buys, so I doubt we could make it into a revenue source even if we wanted to.  Maybe you could charge a flat rate per month for IoT support, but it still seems like a money losing proposition if it takes off, unless you can outsource it to India. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

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