Who Is Total Carrier Solutions, Inc.?

Posted by:
Jeff Ott President & C.E.O.

Office 281-778-9667 Ext. 102

Direct 281-915-0290

jott@totalcarriersolutions.com

We are a Worldwide Master Agent with its Corporate Office located in Missouri City, Texas, a suburb of Houston. Our mission is to assist clients in finding the most economical solution options to all there telecommunication needs. After assessing the client’s requirements we run quotes through our online Partner Back Office and compose a quotation for the client with the carriers that offer the most economical solutions available in the client’s area. We offer over 1200 carriers worldwide each offering various services. We carry the top 50 carriers, such as, AT&T, Verizon, Qwest, XO, etc., but we also carry a wide range of smaller carriers, fiber builders, Wimax, Wireless, satellite, DSL, and Cable players. If we don’t have a selection of carriers in a specific area, we find out who is in the area and do our best to add them to our carrier list of offerings.



Benefits Of Becoming An Agent

Earn Residual Income, as well as one time spiffs or upfront bonuses from every client you sign with any one of our 1200 plus carrier offerings worldwide.
Be your own boss
Set your own hours
Work at your own pace.


What Support Do You Offer Your Agents?

You are assigned to a Channel Manager who will assist you completely though out each step of the process.
Leads from multiple sources.
Online instant quoting tool through our Partner Back Office
Carrier Support from training on the services they offer, to the use of their online tools.
Commission support and tracking
Marketing and business development assistance
Contact manager
Scheduler
Quote Reminder
Quotation management
Project Management to see your orders through the install process.
RFQ Manager
New Agent Registration
Corporate Staff Support
Executive Level Support
We dedicate 100% of our resources to our Agents. We are the channel support experts.



How Do I Get Started?

Call or send an email to the Channel Manager shown on this brochure and let them know you would like more information on becoming an agent.
Channel Manager will contact you to answer any questions you may have and then forward you our Non-Disclosure Agreement.
Once that is returned they will send you the Partner Agreement, a w9 and a electronic funds transfer form to be completed and returned to the corporate office.
Electronic funds transfers are done for your benefit. It allows us to send your commissions to you each month by direct deposit. (This information is retained in the corporate office and is never disclosed to outside sources. We can mail you a check but this greatly slows down the receipt of your payment and may reduce payout percentages due to extra accounting process required)
We send you your username and password to the Partner Back Office.
We walk you through the Partner Back Office and show you how to utilize the tools offered.
Begin training with various carriers by conference calls, web ex meetings, video conferencing, etc. You choose what you want to learn and when. We do not mandate that you take the training, but experience has shown the more you learn the more you earn.
We assist you with closing your deal with the clients through our Channel mentoring.


Are There Other Ways To Earn With TCS?



Yes! We also offer a Residual Referral Program. If you refer someone to TCS and they sign as a Master or Sub Agent, we pay you a 10% residual referral bonus on all sales they close on. For example: If we pay an Agent that you referred to TCS $10,000.00 for sales they made, you will make $1,000.00 just for referring them to TCS.
We also offer a Client Referral Program. If you refer a customer to TCS and allow a Master Agent or Sub Agent to assist the customer with design, price quote, and contract for you, TCS will pay a onetime bonus ranging from 25% to 100% of the monthly recurring revenue.

Total Carrier Solutions, Inc. Featured in press!

Posted by:
Jeff Ott President & C.E.O.

Office 281-778-9667 Ext. 102

Direct 281-915-0290

jott@totalcarriersolutions.com

Terrapin Partners with Pac-West for White Label VoIP
December 28, 2010
By Adam Stone



As 2010 turns the corner on 2011, Andrew Pryfogle sees reason to be optimistic. As president and CEO of cloud services master agent Terrapin Solutions, he’s just landed a nifty deal to market a white-label hosted IP PBX service from Pac-West Telecomm.

That’s just a start. Looking beyond his own front door, he said, hosted VoIP and especially the cloud are poised for a banner year.

"When we see Microsoft and Cisco spending millions upon millions of dollars to educate the world about the cloud, that’s a massive opportunity for us and for hosted VoIP," said Pryfogle, who founded Oakland, Calif.-based Terrapin in 2008.

"We are still at an early stage where a lot of businesses understand that the cloud is important, but they don’t understand what it is," he said. As the gospel is spread, "you are going to see a much bigger shift even than what has already happened."

White label offerings like the latest from Pac-West are playing an increasing part in driving that shift. Pac-West’s Telastic hosted IP PBX provides a pay-as-you go pricing model with no up-front capital expenditures. It includes a broad range of IP PBX features, flexible partitioning of domains for wholesale and retail customers, Web portals for all system user levels, and multi-tiered rating and billing.

"From a VAR’s perspective, the attraction to a white label deal is the prospects around revenue," Pryfogle said. "In an agency deal it’s not your brand, it’s technically not your customer. You are at the whim of a carrier or service provider as to whether they will continue to pay you commissions.

"As a white label partner you own the customer, you are building the equity around your brand, you are deciding the profit you will make on that customer because you set the price. You have no danger of that revenue going away unless that customer goes away"

That doesn’t make white labeling a sure thing. There is still the risk of bad debt, as well as the need to support the customer with all the appropriate apparatus. Not everyone can rise to that level, "but if you have those capabilities, you can actually make a lot more money on a white label deal than you could on a traditional agency deal," Pryfogle said.

Terrapin plays a middleman role in the effort to capitalize on that opportunity. On the one hand, he represents a mix of carriers and service providers looking to bring their offerings to market. He then serves these up to a gathering of some 1,400 individuals, VARs, integrators, and IT support organizations.

From his perch in the cloud he has watched for the past 12 months as hosted VoIP has taken an ever more prominent place among the pantheon of telecom technologies.

"Hosted VoIP has moved way up market for us. It used to be a great solution for SMB customers with under 100 users or even under 20 users. That has changed dramatically. We have bigger and bigger deals where hosted is a better solution for the customer," he said.

Recently for example Terrapin crafted a deal between managed services provider Appia Communications and Total Carrier Solutions. Together they orchestrated a hosted VoIP deployment for 600 seats in nine different countries.

With 300- to 600-seat deployments becoming more common, 2011 will likely see a shakeout among the fast-growing number of competing firms looking to service these deals. "It does separate the boys from the men among the suppliers," Pryfogle said. "When you get into much larger deployments there are much more complex things to deliver."

As the smaller companies struggle to service these ever-bigger accounts, they are feeling price pressures from behemoth companies like Comcast and AT&T who are looking to enter the space and have the muscle to do so with force. The result, Pryfogle said, will be a swift winnowing of the field.

While Terrapin isn’t immune to such turmoil, Pryfogle enjoys a somewhat comfortable position. However the faces may change among buyers and sellers, the broker’s place remains largely unaffected. Still, there is competition from Intellisys, Telarus, Telecom Brokerage Inc., and others.

To ensure stability Terrapin has tried to carve a niche for itself, becoming a source of cloud expertise within the general hubbub of the hosted VoIP space. So effective has that effort been, that even other master agents are contracting with Terrapin to take the cloud component of projects off of their hands.

Total Carrier Solutions brought in Terrapin to sell and manage cloud services, as has P2 Telecom, Pryfogle said. He’s able to draw their confidence in part by the weight of his own track record: He founded hosted VoIP company GoBeam 10 years ago and later saw it sold to Covad.

Terrapin also is actively courting new deals, as for instance its latest arrangement with Pac-West. (And Terrapin/Pac-West are not the only organizations going the white label route. Read Enterprise VoIP's recent coverage of another white label VoIP provider: Telcentris Launches VoIP-Provider-in-a-Box Platform.

The Pac-West white label product puts another tool into Pryfogle’s hands, and that is just what he likes to have: Options. As a neutral third party, he said, the best thing a master agent can do for a customer is to put choices on the table.

"As trusted consultants we can go in and really advocate for our customer," he said. "That is refreshing for me. I can tell you definitively there is a not a service provider out there who is the right fit for everybody, so there is a sense of integrity in it for me, in this effort to find the right solution for our customer from among all the suppliers that are out there."