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Zip Express Expects Antenna Installs to Surge After DTV Transition
Zip has already installed more than 1,000 antenna systems at $349 each through its national network of independent contractors.
Zip Express loves the DTV transition. Through its national network of independent contractors, the company has sold more than 1,000 antenna systems. And that's before analog TV sets go dark tomorrow, June 12.
Business should surge after that date, predicts CEO Chris Mauzy.
Consumers will be calling "the next time they go out to their vacation home and they can't watch TV anymore."
Zip Express charges a flat fee of $349 for an antenna package.
Customers provide their address, and Zip finds the optimum antenna from antennaweb.org.
As a Winegard antenna dealer, Zip provides the antenna and the installation virtually anywhere in the U.S.
For that reason, the company had to raise its original antenna installation fee. "We found out a lot of customers don't live by an installer," Mauzy says.
Of all those antenna jobs, Zip is able to sell about 10 percent of customers a Harmony universal remote, according to Mauzy.
Before Zip promoted the antenna service, the company promoted the installation of DTV converter boxes. That didn't last long, Mauzy says, because Zip couldn't honor the customers' $40 coupons for the boxes.
Zip will install an antenna anywhere in the U.S.? For real?
How about our cabin in the remote town of Brandon, Minn.?
Sure enough, Mauzy found an installer in the Zip database about15 miles away.
He tells me that "Michael" is "an ex-phone guy with a passion for consumer electronics. He has gone through drug testing and is CompTIA certified."
Sign me up.
More: http://www.staticacrossamerica.com/home/
Business should surge after that date, predicts CEO Chris Mauzy.
Consumers will be calling "the next time they go out to their vacation home and they can't watch TV anymore."
Zip Express charges a flat fee of $349 for an antenna package.
Customers provide their address, and Zip finds the optimum antenna from antennaweb.org.
As a Winegard antenna dealer, Zip provides the antenna and the installation virtually anywhere in the U.S.
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For that reason, the company had to raise its original antenna installation fee. "We found out a lot of customers don't live by an installer," Mauzy says.
Of all those antenna jobs, Zip is able to sell about 10 percent of customers a Harmony universal remote, according to Mauzy.
Before Zip promoted the antenna service, the company promoted the installation of DTV converter boxes. That didn't last long, Mauzy says, because Zip couldn't honor the customers' $40 coupons for the boxes.
Antenna Installs Everywhere?!
Zip will install an antenna anywhere in the U.S.? For real?
How about our cabin in the remote town of Brandon, Minn.?
Sure enough, Mauzy found an installer in the Zip database about15 miles away.
He tells me that "Michael" is "an ex-phone guy with a passion for consumer electronics. He has gone through drug testing and is CompTIA certified."
Sign me up.
More: http://www.staticacrossamerica.com/home/
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Julie Jacobson, Editor-at-large, CE Pro
Julie Jacobson is co-founder of EH Publishing and currently spends most of her time writing for CE Pro, mostly in the areas of home automation, networked A/V and the business of home systems integration. She majored in Economics at the University of Michigan, earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, and has never taken a journalism class in her life. Julie is a washed-up Ultimate Frisbee player with the scars to prove it. Follow her on Twitter @juliejacobson.
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