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Helpful. Thanks
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Afternoon all,
Where do you find good subbys? I'm particularly interested in North Essex / Suffolk area.
Thanks
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It is indeed amazing how relaxed commercial work is in every aspect...
Usually plenty of room to park (unless city centre, granted)
Usually plenty of room for your kit
Put a scratch on a desk its probably worth £20 and the person who's sat on it doesn't give a f**k and laughs it off
Plenty of room to shift ***** out the way
Loft not full of old tut
Don't usually care about trunking, mostly happy you're actually using it 'unlike the network guys we just had in'
You can have a **** in the toilet without embarassment
Haha, some very good points. Especially the last!
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Yes but why do 20 domestic jobs with all the hassle for the same profit as one job on a commercial site with very little hassle.
Work smart not hard.
I hear you, and that makes perfect sense if everything was equal, but surely it's much harder to get commercial work Vs domestic?
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Surely the "hassle" has been reduced from installation (if opting for wireless panels)?
Also, with built-in or add-on IP modules a lot of the teething problems can be resolved remotely from a laptop?
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Hi All,
What's the best CCTV system for domestic installs.
By "best" I guess I am asking, what's the best value, simplest to install, simplest for customer to use etc.
Thanks,
Reggie
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Reggie what's your angle?
I don't have one really, I just think it's a shame that domestics are still by far the lions share of the market, not in individual value but in volume, which equates to value in the long term if the volume is there.
I just think it's a massive shame (it sounds like) smaller firms are conceding to the industry heavyweights simply because they have deeper pockets to bank roll installs at a loss then make £1000's out of customers in the long term?
There must be a way to sell/market your local business and service and stand out over and above the waft of s**t which comes with the heavyweights. You know I mean... just google "ADT reviews"! Don't customers do this?
Can most customer really be solely sold on installation price alone?
/ RANT OVER /
But that was "my angle" James
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too many people putting alarms in for a bag of crisps and a luncheon voucher
Haha, I understand your point, but there's still good business there if you go in low (even at a loss) if you can secure a £20/month maintenance + monitoring contract for a few years.
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Reckon aiming at domestic wireless market is akin to smashing your nads between 2 bricks.
The market is fuked.
Reckon you need to add cctv.
Why do you think the market is fuked? Dominated by the likes of ADT?
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I reckon http://www.adt.co.uk/about/peoplewould be more money & less grief
Not as an installer, but as running a decent sized company,
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You may get more help if you explain what you are asking the questions for
Considering coming back into the industry.
Putting business plan together and need to plug numbers into 3 year projected forecast.
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I'm assuming again you have left employment and assume you can open the doors and the clients will flood in?
No, I haven't left employment. I am self employed doing something unrelated to security (but I used to be an alarm installer many years ago).
Yes, I could open the flood gates to plenty of intruder installation work.
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I'd assume the OP is getting started and doesn't have referrals?
Correctamundo!
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There's isn't suitable multi skilled talent & can't seem to train it,
I hear this a lot. I guess with the "one product paint by no's" approach would allow you to bring apprentices through quicker though?
Wouldn't it be better to ask what value of invoices have you raised so far this month, this would give a better idea of how much work is going on.
I felt that may have turned people off answering tbh.
Also, I'm only really interested in intruder installs, not access, cctv or fire job.
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me + 1
Is that through choice of not wanting to expand, i.e. happy with your current workload vs overheads,
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not enough work in your service area, i.e. too much competition?
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Thanks Mr Happy. Good informative response.
May I ask, how many install engineers (intruder) do you employ?
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Hi All,
How much do you spend on marketing/advertising per month (or year)?
Do you allocate a certain amount per year or spend as required?
What do you spend it on?
Online Marketing - PPC (Google Adwords etc), Directory Listings (Yell.com etc), SEO
Offline Marketing - Flyers, Magazine Ads, Events, Business Networks etc
Which medium do you see the best returns?
Thanks
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It also depends on the size of the install, some installs take a month
Fair point Peter.
So for the sake of this thread, let's focus on domestic jobs only, assuming wireless installs, taking just one day.
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Hi All,
I'm new here but have been reading the TSI forums for a few months now.
It seems like most the members here are decent people and the responses seem genuinely useful, so I thought I'd register
So, I basically trying to understand how many new installs you guys are doing a month and what percentage take up maintenance contract. Obviously this is going to vary massively depending on the size of the company and number. of engineers etc. So perhaps it'd be more useful to list like this:
Installs | install engineers | % maintenance
e.g. 30 | 2 | 50%
Look forward to seeing the response.
Thanks,
Reggie
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Huge opportunity for alarm engineer or subby in Essex/Suffolk
in Security Job Requests and Vacancies
Posted
Hi all,
Are you an ambitious alarm engineer or subby based in Essex or Suffolk?
If you also have commercial acumen and want to earn serious money, get in contact today (no time wasters, this is a serious opportunity for the right person).
Thanks,