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Feeling for being Indirect...
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Posted by: pc0416

To become a good ( and stable ) indirect, you must:

* know how to ignore your carrier... know how to ignore them yelling at you not performing well and may even threaten you to terminate you as Authorized Agent if you don't perform what they expected even though the other carriers are offering much better commissions....

* Stay on top of bills and paying salaries on-time. ... Bills comes everyday. You have to bag your carrier to pay ontime so that you can pay the bills and put food on employees' table. When you finially get your check from the carriers after you bag them for so long, you would never seen a commission check with the full amount that you submitted. Beside from unreasonable chargbacks, there are stuff like.. "Missing signatures.", "Customer Signed a 1 yr Plan but you submited as two" even though you never need to submit customers' contract to them and you bill the carrier over the internet.

* Competitions. Somehow I think I am the only one concern more on profits than total activations. Competitors of other indirect agents think they need more numbers to make them feel better. But if you are in the indirect business, profits is the most important. I don't give a damn about how carriers bit*hing about not having a lot of activations, all I care is about my profits. Afterall, they bit*h because they need indirect's activation for there commission.

This is just my opinion.

Posted by: SuxBeingU

WOW, where to start.
my master agents don't yell at me the 1st time they do will be their last. I don't work for them, we work together to make each other lots of money. Same goes with contract issues, commissions and fraudulent chargebacks. I have never gotten paid my commissions late and only once was a check wrong, when I showed them they cut a check immediately.

Paying your employees on time is priority number 1 if you don't want them stealing from you.

Honestly I have none of the issue you've mentioned. I love my master agents from Nextel and Verizon. I just left Cingular and got approved by T-Mobile this week, we'll see how that goes. A Good Master understands to make money off me they need to help me be successful.If I am not happy with them I will not sell their product, ask my Cingular Master, haven't sold a phone for them in 3 monthes now.

Posted by: pc0416

Time to time carrier A have better commission than carrier B, carrier B and their master would work together to squeeze numbers from you. ALL masters that I have work with will be nice to you at the beginning before you sign then, but afterward will be a mass. That's my experience......