For small businesses who don't understand technology, it's very difficult to make them think about it. You generally need to force them to think about what would actually happen to them if $thing fails, and how much it would cost them in that event. Some will listen and genuinely consider it, others refuse to. It's those that refuse to that really confuse me, because everyone should have done a risk analysis on their business. If the main risk to being able to conduct business is the Internet being offline then perhaps that should rebalance things? But it doesn't. The same people tend to store their entire business history on a $100 single-disk NAS.. which they then leave on a hardwood floor where it gets shaken, not stirred.<div>
<br></div><div>But generally it's not until one of those things goes wrong and then it's off to data recovery to pay $2400 for clean-room recovery for them to realise that their business could cease to exist for the want of a spare hard drive, or cease to trade because someone downstairs broke the MDF.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So a week without Internet is a week without revenue.. maybe protect it? :F</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>--<br>Christopher Pollock,<br>io Networks Pty Ltd.<div>e. <a href="mailto:chris@ionetworks.com.au" target="_blank">chris@ionetworks.com.au</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Joshua D'Alton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joshua@railgun.com.au" target="_blank">joshua@railgun.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
You guys are selling to businesses and $23/m matters? What the hell.. Surely you are charging many hundreds if not thousands for EFM or whatever, why even give them the option? I can't believe they'd not sign up if it cost $523 per month vs $500...<div>
<br></div><div>Makes me no never mind, just can't believe the market is that stupid :/<div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Matt Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@spectrum.com.au" target="_blank">matt@spectrum.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>I don't believe we could deliver it at
a price that customers would buy with an acceptable margin.
Perhaps on 3g it might be possible but the startup cost is to high
and most want minimal startup costs. It's a balancing act. ADSL2+
home grade as a back is closer to the price point we offered it at
$23 per month extra. Most want to save the $23 .<div><div><br>
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<pre>Conversely, why do you even offer a non-redundant option?
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