"Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com

Fri Mar 25 20:52:54 UTC 2005

Good afternoon,

The NANOG list is not an appropriate place for speculative critiques of the
business models of individual 
companies.

Furthermore, this thread has gone completely off topic.  Please take it
off-list.

For the nanog list administrators,

Chris Malayter
TDS Telecom - Network Services
Data Network Engineering
chris.malayter at tdstelecom.com
Phone: (608) 664-4878
FAX:	(608) 664-4644

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Radabaugh [mailto:mark at amplex.net] 
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 12:51 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com

>
>
> For those that don't know... I am now the COO of UnitedLayer.  It
> sounds like, since I am not going to pay the "extortion" fee to 
> Bandwidth Advisors, that their consultants won't know about our 
> pricing and services.  Even if I did pay the fee, that means that 
> their clients can't get the best deal as I need to raise my fees to 
> client to cover the "small residual payment" going to "Bandwidth 
> Advisors".
>
> Tim

Tim,

Your completely free to hire your own sales people and advertising 
agency - if they do a good enough job you won't need someone like 
"Bandwidth Advisors".    Of course those people are going to want some 
money - and nearly all sales people work on some type of base + 
commission basis.  It's up to you to decide what is less expensive and 
better for you.   Either one is going to cost you something.   Sitting 
around waiting for people to come to you can also be pretty expensive if 
you have any kind of fixed expenses.

Mark Radabaugh
Amplex