Gotta love the free ads...but hey, when you're good you're good. More power to you Butch.
Cameron On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Marlon K. Schafer <o...@odessaoffice.com>wrote: > roflol > > I'm glad I'm not the only one that does silly things from time to time! > > Having said that let me drift this conversation a little bit. > > What are the reasons to use a consultant? > > For me it's mainly two fold. > > 1: I can hire the best in the field. I'm not stuck with what talents I've > got. I'm also not stuck with someone that needs to know a lot about a lot > of things. A consultant will often be a specialist in a fairly narrow > field. ex: I can't tell you how to handle routing, but if you want to > take > radios, routers, servers etc. and combine those with some hard work and a > potential customer base I can help you turn that into cashflow and, > usually, > profit. > > 2: Having access to more than one expert. If I had taken the time to > learn > servers, routers etc. or if I'd have hired a guy who's main, or even only, > job it is to take care of those devices I'd be beholden to that one person. > If they quit, got fired, died or whatever I'd be stuck for however long it > took to find a replacement and train the new guy. With a consultant it's > not much more complicated than picking up the phone and calling another > consultant. > > Having said that I use Butch a lot. He's busy so the rest of you guys go > find your own expert! grin Personally I don't know anyone that does as > good of a job of working on the devices and has the patience to deal with > my > ignorance of that part of my business. > > The great part of it is that I *can* pick up the phone and call any of 3 or > 4 others that also know how to do what Butch does for me. My choice today > is to use Butch, but it's certainly nice to know I have options. It's up > to > Butch to make sure I never feel the need to develop a relationship with > anyone else. > > How do others look at in-house vs. consultant workers? > marlon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brad Belton" <b...@belwave.com> > To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 5:23 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] OFFLIST: Re: Mikrotik User Meeting > > > >I agree with Josh's comment. Butch has been the first and last MikroTik > > consultant we've needed. > > > > Best, > > > > > > Brad > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > > Behalf Of Alan Bryant > > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 7:16 PM > > To: WISPA General List > > Subject: Re: [WISPA] OFFLIST: Re: Mikrotik User Meeting > > > > I second Butch as a personal recommendation. We haven't had to use him > > much, but he has always had great recommendations for questions I have > > asked on the list as well as questions I wanted to ask and someone > > else beat me to it. > > > > Also, his QOS script for RouterOS is pretty good as well! > > > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Josh Luthman > > <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote: > >> I do see Butch's point. Need to relax on the wording. > >> > >> My personal recommendation is to use Butch as he is the first and last > >> consultant I have needed. > >> > >> On Jul 29, 2010 7:49 PM, <lakel...@gbcx.net> wrote: > >> > >> Ooooppppssss! > >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Butch Evans <but...@butchevans.com> > >> Sender: wireless-boun...@wispa... > >> > >> > >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- > >> WISPA Wants You! 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