Re: Why ADT Monitoring is better.

[John Sowden <jsowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/03/2014 04:14 PM, Jim wrote:
> On Sunday, November 2, 2014 11:46:21 PM UTC-5, John Sowden wrote:
>>>
>> Point well taken re: UL Listed Central Station
>> (by the way, you sound like an alarm company shill, err employee; most
>> people erroneously use the term UL Approved.)
>>
>> Point 2: As a UL Listed Central Station, the company is required to have
>> a disaster plan, to review it twice a year, as things might change, and
>> to implement it once per year.  By the way, most of the contract
>> monitoring companies that local alarm companies (read good, personal
>> service) use are UL Listed.
>>
>> We are a local UL Listed Central Station alarm company (read good,
>> personal service) like you are referring to.  We have been Listed since
>> 1978.  We don't just call the cops and the responsible parties, and
>> we're done.  That's what the big boys do, cuz the next alarm just went
>> off in Detroit.  We call the PD back for a status, THEN wake people up
>> and let them know what actually happened, if necessary.  Read the
>> complaints about ADT.  There are many.  Most are employees avoiding
>> taking the responsibility to service the customer.  It's so easy in a
>> large company to say 'That's not my job" and pass the buck.
>>
>> That's the big difference between a big company and a local alarm company.
>>
>> By the way, "Monitoring" is just part of "Alarm Service".
>>
>> John R. Sowden
>
> Your post is right on John but I'm sure it's to no avail. I'm sure it was written by some starry eyed newbie who's just been recruited and been fed the same old hype and smoke and mirrors that the name ADT can bring to a naïve recruit. As befalls the mass majority of "dealers" he'll soon find out that the "quotas" and pay backs for lost accounts will overwhelm him and he'll drop out of the program leaving ADT with a few more accounts who "stuck".
>
> It's the same game that insurance companies and real estate companies play. Pump up the new recruits, get the names of friends, family, neighbors, as possible clients, give the recruits lot's of information about how well the existing dealers are doing and send them out into the field to ultimately fail and leave all their leads behind. A pretty inexpensive lead  and account generation process. Talk to this guy in a couple of years after he's worked his guts out with little equity to show and no outlook but more of the same humping for new sales for minimal return. See what he has to say then.
>
the brutal truth has come to our industry  :(

John