My phone bill . . . It's just too much!
Recently a client asked us to take a look at her cell phone bill. She thought she was paying too much for a service that was not "essential."
Defining essential is tough. For some, it's food and shelter. For others it's HD Cable. Most of us fall someplace in the middle. We don't NEED the cable universe at our fingers, nor is bread & water alone sufficient for us.
We'd all like to have the option of the BMW at Kia prices, and it's the option or the choice that matters. We're sure you agree that you should be able to make that choice and pay what you wish for what you need.
Just 20 years ago, your "personal communications device" was connected to the wall by a cord. Maybe you had a cordless phone, but only the "rich" had a cell phone. At that time, you probably complained about the $35 per month you paid to Bell or Rogers/ATT, and you couldn't go anywhere else.
In the past 5 to 10 years, it seems we're all issued cell phones at birth, or at least we act that way if we loose them or they stop working. And each member of the family has at least a private telephone number, sometimes more than one. You might still have a "land line" but that's becoming a sign of an older person, most of the Gen Y crowd use the cell exclusively. No wired lines in those homes.
But the price! That client I mentioned before? She was paying over $200 per month as the "standard" rate on her iPhone. It wasn't the data plan or the long distance, it was the basic rate that she was sold by the store rep! The extras, the special services she only needed for a month or two? Paying for those services for the whole year gets expensive, and we got the call.
She asked me to see what I could do. I have done this for other clients, and I've done it for myself, saving up to 66% on the regular monthly bill. That was an unusual case, but we can usually see savings of 25% to 50% with some work on your bill. There are some tricks we have picked up when dealing with the telephone companies and while we've done this for clients not many others know that we can try and save money for you.
This is how it works. You get to choose whether to pay our hourly rate for consulting and take 100% of the savings, if any, or we can split the savings 50/50 for the next 12 months. You have to make the choice but you need to make it before we start the process. We're willing to take the chance on the final billing. You get to decide how we do it for you. If you choose the hourly rate, we get paid whether we find a saving or not, while if you choose the 50/50, we might not get paid.
And that client who was paying over $200 per month? We saved her $1800 over the next year. Hourly rate on that one, but we're all happy.
Give us a call and let's see what we can do for you. There are some conditions; sometimes we need to put you into an unlimited plan and there may not be a direct comparison available. We'll outline all the choices before we start - don't worry, there's no fine print - and we guarantee you'll be happy with the service and the savings.
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