New cricket dealer

yeah. T mobile had to offer their loyal customers 50 dollars unlimitd everything that way they wouldnt go anywhere. All the other companies are coming out with new features and what not
 
lol...quick question, before some of you opened stores, did u do ANY sort of rsearch or have any past business experience beforehand? I ask this for the durab questio asked "is there money to be made"

lets be real in saying if uhave any clue on business yhou should already have had your projected profits for the first few years on paper. whats the point of opening a store if u have no clue what it will do

btw...mr cricket this doesnt apply to you..lo...just the 13 year olRAB who are opening business
 
ok prick i dont neet your stupid comments. Im 20 years old and have no past experience on opening up a business. And the way they laid it out to me seem pretty good and seem as if money was to be made in this industry. But as i said before i want to get opinions from other dealer and their input with cricket wireless.
 
Fairly obvious youre 20 and have no business experience. What the previous person was trying to say is that it's in your best interest to know all this stuff BEFORE you open your store.

Do you have a written business plan?
Have you laid out all of your operating costs for the first two years? Payroll, rent, utilities, taxes, advertising, surprises.
Did you map out how many phone sales it would take to meet those obligations?
How many more to make a profit?
Do you have an advertising plan?

Sorry dude but it seems like you opened the store cause you heard it would be good and now youre wondering when it will be good.

Here's 2 tips for you.
1., Don't get pissy cause you dont like the comments people make in response to your comments/questions. Makes you look immature.

2. Get your account manager in your store and MAKE them hold your hand and teach you everything. If they wont, go to their boss.

Good luck.
 
Chicago is not going to be the #1 market for cricket. Cricket actually asked me to be a dealer for them, but I turned it down. Most of the sales are going to be done in "lower income" areas. Don't take that offensively, but it's true. It's not just my thoughts, but the director of cricket chicago, agreed with me on that. I just hope you didn't get sucked in due to lack of inexperience and actually wrote a business plan out and did some research or else you're going to be kicking yourself in the butt. Goodluck though.
 
Don't let all these people get you down, I opened my stores the day Cricket launched in Chicago. I have four stores my best store is in the northwest suburbs and we are doing phenomenal. There is going to be a lof of attrition with many of the dealers in the next couple months. Me I'm quite content I'm a premier dealer and between the four stores we average about 175 per store. We are still in the process of opening up two more. I've been doing this for 6 years I started as a sales associate at The Mobile Solution at Woodfield ( best sales training and what NOT to do to customers) and have gone on to open many other businesses outside of the wireless industry. My suggestion DON'T advertise yet. Cricket is doing a lot, let them run there course wait for business to kick into a groove and then begin advertising. As far as a business plan....... dude this isn't rocket science we have the luxury of bearing point being so close that my ground shipments get here in two days allowing me to keep inventory on phones pretty low. You might fail, I know I did many times but your young and you can bounce back easier then a 40 year old. I'm 28 years old this industry is for the very young, i feel like a dinosaur.
 
Thanks for the support sbvman. Yeah i actually had 3 years of selling phones. i work at Pagecomm in woodfield mall, North riverside, and stratford. I wanted to be a premier, but they said theyre not taking anymore. So im a standard dealer. Again, thanks for the support.
 
Kinda off topic here, but I was reading in this thread that you cannot use flashed phones in CHicago? My sis lives there and I'm going to visit her soon, so when I get there my phone won't work for that week? Or is it just that you cannot activate a flashed phone there?
 
:^/ Cricket's new technology is the tri-band phone, which can use three radio frequencies to communicate with the towers. The earlier technology used only two of those frequencies, 1900 and 800 Mhz. My take is that Chicago uses the new frequency as the primary one, so existing flashed phones such as my Trēo 755p (Sprint) won't be able to connect to the towers there.

Now if third parties started introducing tri-band phones which used the same three frequencies as Cricket, it should be possible to flash those to Cricket in Chicago....
 
Exactly, older Cricket market phones will not work here in Chicago as well. Even if you have Cricket UNLESS you have a triband Cricket phone.

To my knowledge the only CDMA triband phone that is not supplied is the Samsung Finesse from Metro PCS....

would love to see that flashed and brought over though
 
Wow, that seems a little heavy for a company that doesn't have that large of a network compared to the major ones...I would assume that the tri-band gets better reception, thus an extended range of coverage area? And any word if that will be extended to the west coast as well (hope not :()
 
What city on the west coast?

Cricket has San Diego, metropcs has LA and San Francisco, and they have roaming agreements with them. Cricket is also in portland, and should be opening in seattle eventually

The reason being is that each company has there own FCC licences, and the big boys have taken most of the spectrum in most cities.

Here is a graphical look at whom has the AWS spectrums across the country.
http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=99&p=1495




There are a few others metropcs's website has them on there, I think one or two from ZTE, Kyocera. If cricket doesn't carry it, then it means that it didn't meet cricket's criteria for a quality phone usually. Cricket tenRAB to take there time and be more selective than metropcs.
 
Hmm, interesting. Yea, I'm in the Portland area and originally from Olympia, Wa. Would be nice if cricket expanded into Seattle, maybe I could be able to get phone service when I visit my folks.
 
Reading how cricket does things, they probably already have a partial network buildout, and will continue building it out until they are satisfied that it is a good network, since I would imagine like chicago, seattle would be a huge market for them.
 
Back
Top