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Add You - Virtual ISP Technology - 5 Signs That Signal It's Time to Partner with a Wholesale ISP Provider
TABLE OF CONTENTS1. The Security Consultant's Perspective...2. The Insider Threat...3. Threats by the Outsiders…4. The Terrorist Threat...5. Protective Measures...1) Security Consultant's Perspective...Traditional techniques at combating Workplace Violence pits the disgruntled employee against the system and the potential victims in a waiting game. It seems that the “Inside Threat” is reduced to monitoring the known potential, the “Ticking Bomb”, while the unknown threats go unmonitored. Threats by "Outsiders" are just as common and equally violent. Complicating this challenge, we now must grapple with the threat of terrorism (political and domestic) in our workplaces. I am reminded of a quote by James Baldwin
4. If a mission-critical server blew up today you’d be in a world of hurt. You’ve heard stories of ISPs who’ve had a server go down, and lost droves of customers. Often, these ISPs never recover. In this business, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. However, designing and maintaining your own highly reliable systems is very expensive and requires significant administrative skill. By moving to a wholesale ISP, such as visp.net, ISPs leverage existing engineering expertise and layers of redundant architecture. Every mission-critical server is RAIDed and mirrored to an identical RAID backup system. Typical uptime exceeds the carrier-class gold standard of five nines or 99.999%. That’s one less thing to keep you up at night.
5. There’s no future in simply maintaining or even losing subscribers. Growing your ISP isn’t as easy as it used to be. Competition is everywhere. You’ve got to be better, and potential customers need to know about you. As
When John was promoted to his first management job, his boss gave him a book about twelve traits a leader must have. His father gave him a different book about the characteristics of great leaders. His sister sent him an article about the new leadership. And his brother-in-law sent him a different article on the same subject, but with different advice.When John's wife, Susan, walked into the den that night, she found him grimly staring into space. The books and articles were scattered around him."I can't make sense of this," he groused, "One book is telling me that good bosses have integrity and values. The other one says that great leaders have vision. One article says that command and control is dead and I should let people control things
We hear about this pain daily from prospective ISPs that have not yet leveraged a partnership with a quality Wholesale ISP. However, after a well-executed import of subscriber data, ISPs make more money while working fewer hours. Fixed costs are eliminated. Lost sleep and demanding technical challenges become a thing of the past.
The Difference Between Do-It-Yourself and a Wholesale ISP Partnership
Many ISP owners got into the facilities-based ISP business model during the mid-1990s before virtual ISP technology and server-based ISP software became a reliable solution. A facilities-based ISP owns its mail, DNS, and authentication servers, switches, circuits, and other infrastructure. As demand grew, the ISP owner had to purchase new circuits to keep up. This was a double-edged sword because as demand for dial-up declined, many ISPs have been stuck with termination liabilities on circuits they were no longer using.
A wholesale ISP or virtual ISP provider aggregates the volume of hundreds ISPs. Each ISP offers Internet Services under their own company name and sets their own prices, support policies, and manages their own branding. It makes sense to partner with a company, such as visp.net (http://www.visp.net), that is highly specialized in providing back-office software and services for ISPs.
For the facilities-based ISP owner, moving their back-office services to a wholesale ISP means that they can now pay for services on a per-subscriber basis with margin on each account. They’ve effectively eliminated fixed costs and replaced them with variable costs that provide a more sustainable business model in the highly dynamic Internet access market.
The shift to a wholesale ISP can be a significant upgrade of services because you are leveraging the multimillion-dollar R & D investment of your ISP wholesaler. The result: greater subscriber retention, and a service that’s more attractive to prospective customers.
Knowing When It’s Time to Change
While working with hundreds of ISPs over the past decade who have reached this crossroad, I’ve identified a few “Red Flags” that signal it’s time to partner with an ISP wholesaler.
Here Are My Top 5 Signs:
1. Unused circuits are sucking your profit margin dry. It’s the Catch-22 of the facilities-based ISP world. You’ve got just the right amount of subscribers and circuits. You’re finally in the black and begin to show a profit. Life is good. But just when you start making money, along comes that one additional subscriber and you either send the subscriber to the competition or sign a contract for yet another expensive circuit. On the other hand, you might have latent capacity on existing dialup or DSL circuits. Either way, profit goes out the window. By partnering with a wholesale ISP, owners pay only for services that they need and use. Nothing more.
2. If you only have one qualified system administrator your head is in the sand. The disastrous possibilities are real. We’ve worked with ISPs who’ve lost their administrators to death, accidents and…even Microsoft. You might not want to think about it, but it’s a cold, hard reality. A qualified ISP wholesaler has the resources to maintain redundant administration. Unexpected catastrophes are met with a team of professionals while you enjoy your vacation or rest peacefully in your bed.
3. Billing and administrative stresses make you want to pull your hair out. New ISP services require new management interfaces. Just when you get adjusted to one, subscribers start hammering on you about some new service. It can become overwhelming. A good wholesale ISP vendor offers a highly integrated solution that reduces stress. ISP in-a-box® management software from visp.net, for example, provides ISPs and their staff with a consistent interface for administration, billing, and management of all common ISP services, plus an interface that allows subscribers to easily manage their own services without bothering you.
4. If a mission-critical server blew up today you’d be in a world of hurt. You’ve heard stories of ISPs who’ve had a server go down, and lost droves of customers. Often, these ISPs never recover. In this business, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. However, designing and maintaining your own highly reliable systems is very expensive and requires significant administrative skill. By moving to a wholesale ISP, such as visp.net, ISPs leverage existing engineering expertise and layers of redundant architecture. Every mission-critical server is RAIDed and mirrored to an identical RAID backup system. Typical uptime exceeds the carrier-class gold standard of five nines or 99.999%. That’s one less thing to keep you up at night.
5. There’s no future in simply maintaining or even losing subscribers. Growing your ISP isn’t as easy as it used to be. Competition is everywhere. You’ve got to be better, and potential customers need to know about you. As
"Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated." -- B.C. Forbes, founder of Forbes magazineFor some reason many businesses seem to be designed to leave customers with a bad taste in their mouths. It might be from indifferent service, mediocre merchandise, or from the feeling by the customer that they were in some way short changed on the deal.Some businesses act this way and then wonder why they don't get referrals. Most businesses that act this way don't even think about referrals; they just worry about getting the next sucker in the door. This qualifies as brain-dead stupidity, since
A wholesale ISP or virtual ISP provider aggregates the volume of hundreds ISPs. Each ISP offers Internet Services under their own company name and sets their own prices, support policies, and manages their own branding. It makes sense to partner with a company, such as visp.net (http://www.visp.net), that is highly specialized in providing back-office software and services for ISPs.
For the facilities-based ISP owner, moving their back-office services to a wholesale ISP means that they can now pay for services on a per-subscriber basis with margin on each account. They’ve effectively eliminated fixed costs and replaced them with variable costs that provide a more sustainable business model in the highly dynamic Internet access market.
The shift to a wholesale ISP can be a significant upgrade of services because you are leveraging the multimillion-dollar R & D investment of your ISP wholesaler. The result: greater subscriber retention, and a service that’s more attractive to prospective customers.
Knowing When It’s Time to Change
While working with hundreds of ISPs over the past decade who have reached this crossroad, I’ve identified a few “Red Flags” that signal it’s time to partner with an ISP wholesaler.
Here Are My Top 5 Signs:
1. Unused circuits are sucking your profit margin dry. It’s the Catch-22 of the facilities-based ISP world. You’ve got just the right amount of subscribers and circuits. You’re finally in the black and begin to show a profit. Life is good. But just when you start making money, along comes that one additional subscriber and you either send the subscriber to the competition or sign a contract for yet another expensive circuit. On the other hand, you might have latent capacity on existing dialup or DSL circuits. Either way, profit goes out the window. By partnering with a wholesale ISP, owners pay only for services that they need and use. Nothing more.
2. If you only have one qualified system administrator your head is in the sand. The disastrous possibilities are real. We’ve worked with ISPs who’ve lost their administrators to death, accidents and…even Microsoft. You might not want to think about it, but it’s a cold, hard reality. A qualified ISP wholesaler has the resources to maintain redundant administration. Unexpected catastrophes are met with a team of professionals while you enjoy your vacation or rest peacefully in your bed.
3. Billing and administrative stresses make you want to pull your hair out. New ISP services require new management interfaces. Just when you get adjusted to one, subscribers start hammering on you about some new service. It can become overwhelming. A good wholesale ISP vendor offers a highly integrated solution that reduces stress. ISP in-a-box® management software from visp.net, for example, provides ISPs and their staff with a consistent interface for administration, billing, and management of all common ISP services, plus an interface that allows subscribers to easily manage their own services without bothering you.
4. If a mission-critical server blew up today you’d be in a world of hurt. You’ve heard stories of ISPs who’ve had a server go down, and lost droves of customers. Often, these ISPs never recover. In this business, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. However, designing and maintaining your own highly reliable systems is very expensive and requires significant administrative skill. By moving to a wholesale ISP, such as visp.net, ISPs leverage existing engineering expertise and layers of redundant architecture. Every mission-critical server is RAIDed and mirrored to an identical RAID backup system. Typical uptime exceeds the carrier-class gold standard of five nines or 99.999%. That’s one less thing to keep you up at night.
5. There’s no future in simply maintaining or even losing subscribers. Growing your ISP isn’t as easy as it used to be. Competition is everywhere. You’ve got to be better, and potential customers need to know about you. As
Here’s some easy ways to create signage that will attract, not annoy customers (and local government agencies that regulate signage):1. Since movement always attracts attention, any banner, sign set of a pole that might move with the wind or electrically-turned sign will stand out from the static messages around it.2. A retailer could become known for catchy sayings, advice, or questions (that are answered in the next day or week’s sign message). Messages may or may not be directly related to the store’s products or services – but they should appeal to the store’s kind of clients. For example, a beauty salon may have hair-related sayings – or simple quotes on beauty – and wit.3. For 24-hour involvement, consider videoing loc
Knowing When It’s Time to Change
While working with hundreds of ISPs over the past decade who have reached this crossroad, I’ve identified a few “Red Flags” that signal it’s time to partner with an ISP wholesaler.
Here Are My Top 5 Signs:
1. Unused circuits are sucking your profit margin dry. It’s the Catch-22 of the facilities-based ISP world. You’ve got just the right amount of subscribers and circuits. You’re finally in the black and begin to show a profit. Life is good. But just when you start making money, along comes that one additional subscriber and you either send the subscriber to the competition or sign a contract for yet another expensive circuit. On the other hand, you might have latent capacity on existing dialup or DSL circuits. Either way, profit goes out the window. By partnering with a wholesale ISP, owners pay only for services that they need and use. Nothing more.
2. If you only have one qualified system administrator your head is in the sand. The disastrous possibilities are real. We’ve worked with ISPs who’ve lost their administrators to death, accidents and…even Microsoft. You might not want to think about it, but it’s a cold, hard reality. A qualified ISP wholesaler has the resources to maintain redundant administration. Unexpected catastrophes are met with a team of professionals while you enjoy your vacation or rest peacefully in your bed.
3. Billing and administrative stresses make you want to pull your hair out. New ISP services require new management interfaces. Just when you get adjusted to one, subscribers start hammering on you about some new service. It can become overwhelming. A good wholesale ISP vendor offers a highly integrated solution that reduces stress. ISP in-a-box® management software from visp.net, for example, provides ISPs and their staff with a consistent interface for administration, billing, and management of all common ISP services, plus an interface that allows subscribers to easily manage their own services without bothering you.
4. If a mission-critical server blew up today you’d be in a world of hurt. You’ve heard stories of ISPs who’ve had a server go down, and lost droves of customers. Often, these ISPs never recover. In this business, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. However, designing and maintaining your own highly reliable systems is very expensive and requires significant administrative skill. By moving to a wholesale ISP, such as visp.net, ISPs leverage existing engineering expertise and layers of redundant architecture. Every mission-critical server is RAIDed and mirrored to an identical RAID backup system. Typical uptime exceeds the carrier-class gold standard of five nines or 99.999%. That’s one less thing to keep you up at night.
5. There’s no future in simply maintaining or even losing subscribers. Growing your ISP isn’t as easy as it used to be. Competition is everywhere. You’ve got to be better, and potential customers need to know about you. As
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2. If you only have one qualified system administrator your head is in the sand. The disastrous possibilities are real. We’ve worked with ISPs who’ve lost their administrators to death, accidents and…even Microsoft. You might not want to think about it, but it’s a cold, hard reality. A qualified ISP wholesaler has the resources to maintain redundant administration. Unexpected catastrophes are met with a team of professionals while you enjoy your vacation or rest peacefully in your bed.
3. Billing and administrative stresses make you want to pull your hair out. New ISP services require new management interfaces. Just when you get adjusted to one, subscribers start hammering on you about some new service. It can become overwhelming. A good wholesale ISP vendor offers a highly integrated solution that reduces stress. ISP in-a-box® management software from visp.net, for example, provides ISPs and their staff with a consistent interface for administration, billing, and management of all common ISP services, plus an interface that allows subscribers to easily manage their own services without bothering you.
4. If a mission-critical server blew up today you’d be in a world of hurt. You’ve heard stories of ISPs who’ve had a server go down, and lost droves of customers. Often, these ISPs never recover. In this business, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. However, designing and maintaining your own highly reliable systems is very expensive and requires significant administrative skill. By moving to a wholesale ISP, such as visp.net, ISPs leverage existing engineering expertise and layers of redundant architecture. Every mission-critical server is RAIDed and mirrored to an identical RAID backup system. Typical uptime exceeds the carrier-class gold standard of five nines or 99.999%. That’s one less thing to keep you up at night.
5. There’s no future in simply maintaining or even losing subscribers. Growing your ISP isn’t as easy as it used to be. Competition is everywhere. You’ve got to be better, and potential customers need to know about you. As
Does anyone remember that book “Built to Last” done y the Stanford class and professor? Well change that to “Built to Merge.” My grandfather was personal friends with Bill Hewlett and David Packard and I bet they would not have wanted this merger with Compaq either. It is interesting that one night about 3 in the morning I was reading that book and decided to change or mission statement and focus on the things that meant the most to our team and our customers. I stayed up all night writing that mission statement to make sure it was in line with the books comments on what it takes to make and keep a company great. This was about 5 years ago when “Built to Last” was the talk of the business world and it was written up in many of the newspapers, and magazines I
4. If a mission-critical server blew up today you’d be in a world of hurt. You’ve heard stories of ISPs who’ve had a server go down, and lost droves of customers. Often, these ISPs never recover. In this business, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. However, designing and maintaining your own highly reliable systems is very expensive and requires significant administrative skill. By moving to a wholesale ISP, such as visp.net, ISPs leverage existing engineering expertise and layers of redundant architecture. Every mission-critical server is RAIDed and mirrored to an identical RAID backup system. Typical uptime exceeds the carrier-class gold standard of five nines or 99.999%. That’s one less thing to keep you up at night.
5. There’s no future in simply maintaining or even losing subscribers. Growing your ISP isn’t as easy as it used to be. Competition is everywhere. You’ve got to be better, and potential customers need to know about you. As a local ISP you have significant advantage over national competitors, but when you’re busy managing everything else, when do you have time to grow your subscriber base? By partnering with a wholesale ISP, you can provide your subscribers with the quality of service offered by national competitors, such as 24-hour support. When you hand-off 24/7 administrative chores, you free up time to perform a much more critical function - growing your ISP.
In the end, the choice to leverage wholesale ISP software and technology is a business decision. As the ISP business has become increasingly dynamic, shrinking profit margins require ISPs to eliminate fixed costs. There’s no more powerful way to cut your overhead and improve your quality of life than by partnering with an experienced wholesale ISP provider.
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