Thanks to all of you who have helped me...

RyanS.@VehicleSolutions

make my business decisions of whether to go on and do emergency equipment sales and installation fulltime or not. Well i am here to tell ya as of Jan. 03, 2006 i have been \"bought\" out by a large Motorola dealer here in Ohio. I will be doing their on the road sales in a 12 county area and also be doing a few of the installs i sell. I want to thank Parr public safety and also alert emergency equipment as well as buckeye public safety and strobes'n more as i hope we can create and or extend our relationship together. The company that is utilizing my services has been a leading Motorola factory distributor and repair facilty for 40 years located in Wooster Ohio. We have 3 install bays and can accomodate any vehicle on the road today as our doors are 14' high by 55' deep. we carry the full line of motorola radios and parts (hint hint) shoot me an email on some parts or servicing and i can see what we can do for you or your department. We are also a Nextel dealer and have many parts for those phones as well.

Jordan,TCFD

I need a used front face plate for a Maxtrac 300 with 16 channels and all 3 option buttons.I can get a new one for like $30.00.Just see what you can do.Thank you.

Jordan,TFD,TCFD,VFD

Colonel

I hope that doesn't mean because you were bought out.. that they can get rid of you now?

Sounds like an exciting time for you and business though! I may be contacting you re: Moto stuff and Nextel. I'll try not to forget.

RyanS.@VehicleSolutions

well what happened is.. I wanted to get bigger and quit my full time job. They wanted to start doing emergency equipment which includes lights, sirens, h.a.w.s, console's partitions, mobile vision, everything other than a radio system for cars. I have a lettering and striping company that i subcontract my vinyl to, I do price shopping of all the companies. try to order in bulk when i can. We are becoming a one stop shop for police, fire, ems services.

I mean where else can one check cover, from us picking the car up at the dealership and delivering it to you so you can pull over a point 19 in the same afternoon? No hassles about who did what. Dont have to look through countless invoices to determine oh i bought this here and that there.
The company i now work for has a customer base of maybe 4 co. sherriff dept's, 30 or so local pd's and 30or so local fire departments.
pay is a little wierd which they give me a $100 bucks in gas and stuff a week, I make 50% of all profit i sell which includes sales and installs. So of i buy something at $100 and sell it for $150 plus 3 hours installation i get $85 commision off the deal in my bank account out of which i get payed. I dont think 50% is a bad number of the profits i get.

Justin

You're getting a salary too, right?

Hugh A.

[quote:d23ac36ebd=\"www.EVO-USA.com\"]You're getting a salary too, right?

Posted: Sat 21-Jan-2006 18:13 Post subject:

this is what i asked for... Procom Inc. 5367 Back Orrville Rd. Wooster, Ohio 44691 I, Ryan Shanower am willing to offer to you (Procom Inc.) the following. 1) On the road sales to include but not limited to, cold calling of a customer base. 2) Installation services either on the road service or at Procom Inc. when needed. 3) Customer service, in the event of a possible sale I will be able to be reached on a cell phone 24 hours a day. 4) Experience, 8years of serving Stark and surrounding counties with emergency products and installation of such items. 5) Vast knowledge of suppliers and services to help our business grow. I will use an extensive network of on-line and counter based sales people to get Procom Inc. the best deal. Then offer the customer the best deal they can receive. 6) I have approximately $2000 dollars worth of tools on my vehicle to handle virtually any kind of situation for our customers. In exchange for these services I will ask the following. 1) Salary of $400 dollars us currency take home per week. This salary does not include mileage or reimbursement of parts or �schmoozing� items for customers. 2) Mileage reimbursement of $.38 per mile. This will cover wear, tear and maintenance on my vehicle. Procom Inc. can cover $.48/5 cents per the IRS. 3) If Procom Inc. decides to get a company sales car, and agrees to pay for wear, tear, maintenance and mileage I will delete section 2. 4) A company issued cell phone for use on the road in which I can keep a list of frequent used numbers, and which customers are able to call at a moments notice. 5) A laptop of Procom Inc. choice. In which I can use on the road to show clients inventory on hand and to demo videos of products. I will need a wireless internet- card and be billed monthly not per minute of use. I will pay for this internet fee. This laptop should also have the ability to send and receive email and to be hooked to a printer if needed. 6) I do not need health or prescription insurance. Ryan M. Shanower

Posted: Sat 21-Jan-2006 18:18 Post subject:

Did you get what you asked for? Or just what you initially stated? I hate to see you get the short end of the stick, that's all.

Posted: Sat 21-Jan-2006 18:19 Post subject:

i didnt ask for a commission they have till monday to give me in writing their offer. basically if i cant get anymore than what i told ya i was to recieve than we are going to have to go back to the drawing board. The owner of the company isnt really a business man he is a hard worker that has kept and maintianed the company for 40 some years. i think they figure if i can sell about a $1000 dollars a week profit then i can get a $400 dollar a week paycheck. they want me to upcharge everything by at least 25% to 40% to resell it is going to be hard to hit those numbers for someone who is internet smart. what do you guys think should be my next step?

Posted: Sat 21-Jan-2006 18:25 Post subject:

Demand a BASE PAY!! You should know from your own experience as a small business owner than people aren't always buying stuff. There are lots of slow times these days. You won't be able to make a living during these times with no base pay. If they don't offer you at least $500 gross per week, I wouldn't take it. Just my opinion. Commission is a hard ball game to play, especially when their customer base doesn't sound to be all that large. PD's tend to buy once a year (which all come at once), and other sales may be few and far between. Get yourself a decent base pay, in addition to whatever percentage of commission and installs. Maybe 25% in addition to base pay? Or, as some places do it, a $500 base pay OR 50% commission, which ever is higher.

Posted: Mon 23-Jan-2006 22:20 Post subject:

what my offer was today to them is... $200 dollars salery per week plus 25% commission on all merchandise and installations sold. and $100 dollars in expenses. plus what i put in the one above.

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