Re: CS start up

["Norm Mugford" <1alarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Nomen Nescio" <nobody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Crash Gordon said:
>
>>At least.
>>And not to mention keeping it staffed...nightmare for smallco.
>
> I agree.  You will not believe how fast you can burn through money
> building
> a central station, but it's the operating costs (and continuing headaches)
> that will really hurt a small company.  Even 5,000 accounts is pretty
> minimal:  instead of puttimg profit in your pockets, those dollars will go
> towards supporting your central station.
>
> It's good to think about why you would want your own central station.
> Back
> in the old days, before there were monitoring companies, nearly all
> central
> stations were owned by installing companies who were usually reluctant to
> sell their services to other alarm companies.  Those companies, in turn,
> were not comfortable having a competitor monitor their systems.  So,
> opening your own central station was almost a necessity if you wanted to
> compete in the central station business.
>
> That's obviously no longer the case.  What benefits does an alarm company
> receive by operating its own central station?  Mostly, it's bragging
> rights: telling customers (and friends in the industry) that you operate
> your very own central station, located right here in town:  "Come on down
> and we'll show it to you!"   Looking at it in terms of dollars and cents,
> it's rarely a good idea to do it yourself.
>
> - badenov

You're Absolutely Correct...

If I had to start it over again, I'd sub out the monitoring......

Norm Mugford




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