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Is Your Wireless Provider Overcharging you?

A few years ago saving money on wireless was a relatively straightforward research and accounting task, but in the age of the smartphone, the new cell phone plans alone are complicated enough to demand attention from an expert.

Wireless expense management experts put communications costs under a microscope, examining them for savings opportunities. A full service Wireless expense management firm can not only generate savings requests for proposals (RFPs) but implement them through its own team of certified experts. While there are many ways wireless expense management services save clients money, most of these audits discover savings based on the following three factors.

Cell Phone Billing Errors: Many people are surprised to learn that wireless carriers routinely overcharge out of sheer error – it is estimated that the error rate is as high as 66%, with mistakes leading to added costs. Most businesses are unaware of these errors and it is estimated that over  80% of all businesses pay their wireless bills each month without challenging them. Many billing errors are subtle and difficult for a non-expert to spot, such as erroneous dates for service migration and cancellation. Others are more blatant, but can fly under the radar in an enterprise-scale organization, such as when carriers charge for minutes that should be counted as free or text messages that were never sent or received.

Cell Phone Usage Analysis: Although huge cell phone bills display usage (along with other line items that are incomprehensible for the non-expert) they don’t provide any easy way to analyze your company’s usage across the entire fleet. Wireless expense management professionals don’t just find the cheapest plans based on basic costs, but on how members of your organization actually use their phones, down to the minute, message and bit of data.

 In a more dynamic environment where use fluctuates, plans will often feature pooled minutes and other shared resources to compensate for these changes. Otherwise, it becomes possible to select billing that fits your usage needs as closely as possible instead of one size fits all packages that effectively overcharge you for data, messaging and minutes you won’t actually use.

Carrier Analysis: Wireless expense management experts study the carriers as intensely as they do your business. That means they’re fully conversant in the major carriers’ latest pricing schemes and administrative procedures. This allows an analyst to renegotiate your contract from an educated standpoint, migrating services to a new carrier if need be without changing or interrupting any aspect of your existing service. You keep the same phone number and handset and at minimum, the services you’ve always used, but you pay less. Consultants can manage billing and services across multiple carriers in a way that would be impossible (or at least impractical) for an in-house accountant or other staff member to do.

Once you add these tactics together you may be looking at a significant cost reduction. For example, some Wireless Resolutions clients have saved over 50% on their billing compared to their previous plans. These real savings (wireless expense management consultants typically draw profits from a percentage of the savings, so costs never increase for their clients) demonstrate why wireless expense management has become such a popular business to business service in both prosperous and uncertain economic climates.

Established in 2007, Wireless Resolutions provides wireless cost reduction and expense management solutions and dedicated customer service.


Save Your Company Money on Wireless Data Costs by Knowing All the Hidden Facts

The Gartner Group, a market research firm, predicts that by the year 2013 every third cell phone sold in the U.S. will be a Smartphone. These include the Blackberry devices, Palm phones, iPhones, Droid phones and other PDA type phones.  It should come as no surprise that rate plan or service packages will now be constantly changing.

 In fact, the four major carriers have made significant changes to their plans within the past six months.  In the last year and a half, the wireless providers have had their line up of Smartphones geared toward using a lot of data, text, email and Web browsing. As a professional, who may be trying to run a business, you can now go without a computer for days. But in terms of pricing, it's gotten more competitive in these last six months, and will be even more competitive in 2010.

So what do small businesses owners need to keep on eye on when purchasing SmartPhones for their employees? What are the hidden billing surprises?

Be careful about selecting the right data and email service for your phones. The providers will tell you that they offer an "unlimited data plan" for wireless connection card (known as Air Cards). They are NOT unlimited. The unlimited plans are actually limited to 5GB per month. While this will accomodate most users, I have seen bills come in with overages as high as $1000 for some users. Verizon has just announced that they are bringing in a "limited data" plan for less. That means you can buy 25MB and email service for only $10 a month instead of the $30 unlimited plan. For businesses, I highly recommend you stay away from these small data packages and go for the unlimited or 5GB because you more than likely will go over your allotted minutes and pay hundreds of dollars in overage charges.
The other thing to watch out for are the new termination fees associated with SmartPhones. Verizon is charging higher fees for certain phones. For example, Verizon's Droid now has a $350 termination fee. They're claiming it's a much more expensive device, so they are trying to recoup [costs] with early termination fees. They are the first ones to go to $350. It's unclear whether the others will follow suit.

Two carriers have made significant changes that are beneficial for any business

T-Mobile has no contract pricing now. If you bring them the device, you don't have to sign a two- year contract. You just go month to month. In fact, the monthly cost is even discounted. For example, it is $80 for unlimited voice and text on T-Mobile with no contract if you bring them your own Smartphone. So it's separating contract from phone. It gives you flexibility of moving that device around.

Sprint now has free mobile to mobile, any network, any time. You can call anyone on any cell phone and receive. You are looking at the ability to get virtually unlimited usage like your home land line phone. If you are a mobile workforce, that's a pretty good plan. Those changes were pretty significant -- the first of the industry.


What else can your company do to save money?
A bill analysis is the best thing to do. You will need to look at the calling patterns, network the calls are made from, time of day, and text and data volume. If you don't have the expertise to do that type of analysis and you've finally figured out that you can't get straight answers from your wireless provider, then by all means do yourself a favor and hire a wireless expense management company to do it for you. There are experts out there who know exactly what to look for and in most cases can dramatically cut your costs. Make sure you find one that works on contingency rule that says if they can't save you money, they don't get paid.

Go with shared minute calling plans. I would suggest you tackle it in the same manner. Corporate accounts have different ways of pooling minutes. For the most part, you have to understand who everybody is calling. Are they clients at their offices or all mobile to mobile? The second part is looking at how the four major carriers are they allocating minutes. Ideally, you want to be able to pool all the minutes together so you have heavy users and light users pulling from the same pool. And make sure you are not over buying. The biggest mistake is buying these big pools and plans and only using 30-40% of the minutes you have.

If you Are you a voice only company? Or do you use other ways to communicate with your workforce? Studies show that businesses who use two way radio communications have lower monthly bills. Sprint still has Nextel two way radio calling, which is very popular with businesses.
If you have Blackberries in your business, you may want to consider the Unlimited plans.....not because you need the extra minutes, but because without a bundled package you will always pay more to have the extra services you need with this type of phone. Buying these services ala carte from your provider will cost you more. For example, with a SmartPhone of any kind, you will need a data package, which can cost you an extra $40 a month. You will more than likely need unlimited text messaging which will cost you another $20 a month. Don't forget an unlimited mobile to mobile package for your users to contact other cell phones. Sprint is the only provider that offers a package that includes all these features for one price. It's called the Simply Everything plans. With this plan you get unlimited calling, unlimited text and data, unlimited calling to any other mobile phone regardless of the provider it is with, unlimited GPS services, unlimited two way radio service and more. You can save hundreds of dollars by using their Everything plans.

If you have each individual users expensing their wireless expenses back to your company, it is important for YOU to make sure they are on the best plan. You may not be managing their cell phone bill, but you're paying for it....so make sure those employees are on the best plans that save your company money.

Stay on top of all the new changes your wireless provider puts out there. They may not always bring your attention to those changes, which may increase your costs. In the last six months, all four major carriers made significant changes in their plans and as much as they want you to think they are trying to simplify it, we've seen it get more and more complicated. There has been so much change the last couple of months that I expect more this year.







That's one thing we focus on at Wireless Resolutions: We make sure our clients stay on top of any changes in the wireless industry that  might        effect their costs.

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Ways To Save Your Company Money on Text Messaging 
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Marty Taylor, Wireless Resolutions, Inc.

If you don't want to block your employees from using text messaging and you don't want to sign your employees up for a text plan, there are some other ways to cut your text messaging costs.
One way to save is to use e-mail to text: ATT and Sprint  offer e-mail to text gateways that let users send a message via e-mail to a mobile user. Usually the address is just the person's 10 digit phone number before the @ sign. For example, if you are e-mailing an ATT mobile device, you would type in the phone number @txt.att.net from your computer.
This saves money for the sender, and only the recipent pays.  It is important to check with your provider first to make sure they offer this service and that it is free of charge. 

Sprint has a new service called "ZipWhip" that allows you to text anyone anywhere from your computer at no charge.  With this great new tool, you can now send your text messages online from your computer and even talk to everybody at one time. If you step away from your computer, Zipwhip lets you send messages to your phone. You don't have to be tethered to your mobile phone anymore. Many companies are now using ZipWhip to get out information to their workers at no cost. To try it out simply log in to your Sprint account online and look for the zipwhip icon on the right.

Try your carrier's Web site: While Verizon has passed on offering their customers any type of free text messaging service, other wireless carriers provide the ability to send a text message from their homepage. For example, Nextel (part of Sprint) has long provided this service so that outsiders can easily contact their subscribers. 

Use Instant Messages to text: Most of the instant message services have an IM to text gateway that works similarly to that of e-mail. To use this via AOL AIM, for example, just type in the "+1" prefix to the regular 10-digit phone number as the contact's username, and it should send the IM as a text message. Again, this saves money for the sender, not the recipient.

There are other online services that allow you to send free text messages to any cell phone using your computer.  OnlineTextMessage.com is one of those services that allows free text messaging. You can send free SMS text messages to anyone at no charge. You no longer have to pay to send quick SMS or text messages as long as you have access to the Internet. All major carriers are supported: Verizon, ATT, TMobile, Sprint, and Nextel.

For ATT users:       http://www.onlinetextmessage.com/att-text-message.php
Verizon users:         http://www.onlinetextmessage.com/verizon-text-message.php
TMobile users:       http://www.onlinetextmessage.com/tmobile-text-message.php


For more information on how your company can save money on wireless costs, contact Wireless Resolutions at 1-877-679-1206 or visit our website at   http://www.wirelessresolutions.net/

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because J. R. Perry is very "COMMITTED 2 DA CAUSE"

Intellectural Copyrights Reserved for - Pro-Per Records/J R Perry III for diversification and Mutual Exchange Trademark 2010 ....@

 

 

WHAT IS “LIKE-KIND” PROPERTY?

There is some confusion regarding what type of property qualifies for a §1031 tax deferred exchange. The Internal Revenue Code Section 1031 states that “no gain or loss shall be recognized on the exchange of property held for productive use in a trade or business or for investment if such property is exchanged solely for property of like kind which is to be held either for productive use in a trade or business or for investment.” “Like-kind” property can include, but is not limited to, any of the following, provided it is held for investment:

    * Single Family Rental
    * Duplex
    * Apartment
    * Commercial Property
    * Raw Land

For example, raw land can be exchanged for a single-family rental, or apartments or a commercial building. Properties can be exchanged anywhere within the United States.  Selling an investment property and trying to do a 1031 exchange to purchase a primary residence does not directly qualify.  Taxpayers can do a 1031 exchange into residential income and then convert it at a later date to their primary residence http://www.tm1031exchange.com/
No. It all depends on the investors goals; level of control desired and risk tolerance. One of the key drawbacks tenant-in-common form of ownership is control. While the investor has a proportional vote on key issues they do not have total control. In exchange for this loss of control the investor can more easily diversify and invest in properties that would normally require hands on management with little actual management responsibility. Ultimately the safety and performance of the investor’s money comes down to the quality of the asset being invested in whether owned as a tenant-in-common or a sole ownership property. http://www.tm1031exchange.com/

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Tenants-in-Common (TIC properties) programs, also known as fractional-ownership or co-ownership, provide the ability for investors to buy partial interests in a property as an alternative to having to buy the entire property.

Tenants-in-Common can provide a professionally managed, institutionally funded “turn-key” real estate solution. The risk is the same as any other real estate investment and needs to be completely understood before investing.

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My Pc Parts a computer and mobile phones specialist and in older model components but either new or refurbished.  We carry socket 775 socket 478 socket 939 socket 754 both motherboards and CPU and so if you require parts for you older computer we will most likely have it or be able to get it in.  At present we will get a large shipment of socket 478 CPU and motherboards in and should be here within a week or two.   Biostar is one of few brands that still manufacture socket 478 motherboards and we do always have or get them into stock.

 

In our tower we have the famous X Blade Gaming case in stock at MyPcParts and at a reasonable cost coming in at $139 and our clear cases are very popular among our clients.

We will continue to carry these brands and will make a great looking computer.

 

Our Mobile phones is another area we carry hard to get older type though new mobile phones.  We have blackberry, nokia and other brands.  These phones are in limited supply and sometime can take a little while to get them in.  I am working hard on like Nokia 6233 and 5140i to keep them in stock but as we get many orders on them sometimes there can be little delay.    The Nokia 6233 and 5140i is a very popular phone among our customers.  Blackberry is the latest addition in our phone section and they have been seeling well also and they are great little tools as they can be like a little personal computer while you are on the go.  In the next few months it is my goal at my pc parts to add more phones and have they shipped out quicker as we work on the logistic on getting the phones on time and to customers on time.

 

From adaptors to power supply to our great range of motherboards you will find it at our site and our socket 775 motherboards and our socket 478 motherboards is always a great buy as well as our mobile 6233 and 5140i.  We carry motherboards like Biostar G31 and Biostar G41 both have built in graphics so no need to buy graphic cards can support up to 4GB of ram and most CPU of socket 775 are supported and extremely reliable and hard working boards.  Most the computers we built we use biostar boards and have found them extremely good and without major issues. So why not order your copy of great motherboard at mypcparts your computer components and older model mobile phone specialist http://www.mypcparts.com.au/

 

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