Anti-Spam and Hosting Businesses

Posted On: 2006-03-30Length: 21:10

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From the studios of Netcast Central, it's the Business Success Tips, with your host Paul, Lee

Hello.

Andy.

I'm here.

Special guest from Ireland,

Wayne.

Wayne Dunn.

No one told me his name,

Now he knows.

And, uh, Ben. One of our new producers,

How's it going?

joining us as well.

So, Wayne.

Welcome Wayne. For those of you who are listening, Wayne's not with us, he's in Ireland.

Hi, How's it going?

Hey Wayne, what time is it in Ireland? What time you got there Wayne? Uh oh.

Are you there?

It's 21:03.

21:03. Let me think, what time is it?

Nine o'clock.

So 21:03 is nine o'clock?

Yeah, I'm here. Can you hear me?

Yeah, we can hear you.

It's 9 o'clock. So it's like nighttime, for you over there, right? And here's it's about 1 o'clock. So, uh, tell you who's gathered here so you know who your consulting crew is, ok Wayne? You've got Lee,

Yes, it's night time.

That's right.

Hello.

You've got Lee who is Mr. Database expert of the universe, and you've got JC, who's our color and talent.

He's also our tattoo expert.

Also our tattoo expert. I've got Ben, who's our new producer. Myself, and I've been doing this about 20 years, doing consulting. And

Andy.

Andy. I know your name. Andy has the least and only Ph.D in the group. He's supposed to be smarter than the rest of us, I guess. So we're here to help you with your enterprise. All right? So tell me about your business Wayne.

What is it you do?

What is it you do?

Ok. My business is like hosting, anti-spam, anti-virus, we filter out spam and viruses from junk mail before it gets to somebody's inbox. So we, it's done like at ISP level, so you need people at their own domains, like say Netcast Central.com or whatever.

This is the world's longest sales call, he's trying to sell something all the way from the other side of the planet, that's great. So, we could be a client for you?

You can be, yes.

See, it's a sales call. I like this. He's thinking already. So, tell me about your product. How does it work, what does it cost?

Um, well it works by scanning all e-mails, it filters out junk mail, like I just said. It costs, there's different levels of costing based on the volume of mail you have, so it can start up from, well it's Euros, so it'd be 150 Euros, like that's about $180 I guess, and it can go right up to 5K for a full-blown managed server if you're large enough.

OK.

I've only sold a couple of those. And so, that's the costing, that's basically what it does.

And so basically, it's sort of a super spam filter and also filters out viruses. Now, what if I've got something like, I don't know, an ordinary...