This month’s article on creating residual income for B2B dealers is one in a series of articles that TracPoint is presenting to highlight the many opportunities available to wireless retailers that subscribe to RatePlan.com and MinuteGuard.  Last month’s article addressed how the inclusion of RatePlan.com into a formalized sales program would greatly enhance a sales team’s revenue producing activity.  This month’s article, on the other hand, demonstrates the money saving features of MinuteGuard for small and medium sized businesses,  and how Dealers earn an ongoing revenue stream by providing this beneficial service.

Today, small and medium enterprises are faced with mounting telecommunications bills as the proliferation of wireless technology takes hold in the day-to-day operations of such enterprises.  No longer are cell phone bills lumped together with land lines by controllers and CFO’s as a single line item in the budget.  Rather, as cell phone bills garner a larger and larger share of the telecommunications budget, they are being scrutinized more closely in order to control costs.  MinuteGuard provides office managers, controllers and CFO’s with a cost-effective solution to offset these rising costs.

MinuteGuard for businesses allows telecom decision makers to easily monitor their employees’ cell phone bills by providing cell phone minute usage updates via e-mail directly to the decision makers on a daily basis.  (See how it works)  In addition, daily e-mails can be automatically sent to individual employees to keep them abreast of their minute usage throughout their billing cycle.
    
MinuteGuard also automatically sends SMS text messages to individual employees when they reach 75%, 80%, 90% and 100% of their allotted minutes.  By proactively notifying employees of their allotted cell phone minutes, MinuteGuard helps employees modify their cell phone usage and consequently lower their cell phone bills.

 
The savings to participating businesses can be substantial.  One participating account, consisting of 140 corporate liable lines, saved over $6,000 its first month with MinuteGuard!  In the world of pooled minutes and shared plans, its surprising how much behavior can be altered just by allotting employees a finite number of cell minutes instead of unlimited minutes.  Moreover, the awareness that “big brother” is tracking usage on a daily basis dramatically reduces overall usage.

MinuteGuard is extremely easy to sell to businesses, as the program is offered on a month-to-month basis, and requires little effort to implement and manage.  As part of RatePlan.com, the new customer activation process is available on-line and consists of a simple to use form.  MinuteGuard provides participating wireless dealers with the option to bill customers directly, or for a small fee, have MinuteGuard do the billing.  More importantly, once a new customer is activated on the service, you receive a monthly residual commission payment for as long as the customer remains on the service.  To set your business up to earn an ongoing residual revenue stream and learn more about Rateplan.com  click here.