Agent Types
With NEF, you have your choice of three types of agent opportunities: referral partnership, sub-agent program, and franchise agents.
The NEF franchise agent, sub-agent and referral programs include all the training and support that you will need to be successful in the high capacity transport and data center markets. Choose the program that fits your business best and let NEF work with you to realize your big bandwidth opportunities.
Interested in learning more about the solution is best for you? Contact us for more information.
Franchise Agents
NEF is currently signing on a limited number of Franchise Agents and is offering comprehensive support and comp plans for the right agents. As a Franchise Agent you will be provided live sales opportunities and have access to NEF’s industry leading fiber mapping and lit building databases. You'll also have direct contact with 100 vendors to leverage their resources and design solutions. NEF’s unique relationships with providers will give you the tools, network assets, and sales support to position you as a leader in some of the largest opportunities in the market.
The NEF franchise agent program offers you a tremendous opportunity to grow your agent business with a high cap bandwidth and data center suite of solutions. If you have a deep understanding of dark fiber and high capacity optical networks, are comfortable working through complex sales cycles, and like to spend the majority of your time selling, the NEF franchise agent opportunity is for you.
Sub-agents
If you prefer the long-term benefit of the sub-agent program, NEF can work as a Master Agent to offer you price information and technical support for your sales opportunities. As the sub-agent, you are responsible for finding the opportunity, qualifying the lead, submitting a request to NEF for pricing, and closing the sale. NEF will provide you with pricing and network information from the carriers being quoted. In exchange for managing the sales cycle from beginning to end as a sub-agent, you will receive a residual commission payment based on the customer's monthly billing.
To qualify for payment as a sub-agent, you complete the following steps:
- Identify leads
- Qualify sales opportunities
- Request pricing from NEF via provided web interface
- Get a signed customer agreement
Referral Partner
You may currently represent a complementary telecom product set such as voice, T1 data/Internet, DSL or cable modem services and need a reliable, knowledgeable resource for high capacity optical solutions for your customers and prospects. As an NEF referral partner, you can simply identify sales opportunities and refer them to an NEF team member. NEF will directly engage the customer, design the solution and close the sale. As the referral agent, you receive a one-time payment in exchange for identifying the sales opportunity.
To qualify for payment as the referral agent, you will provide NEF with
- The customer name contact information
- A description of the opportunity
Don't delay. Find out about the three types of high capacity bandwidth agent programs NEF has to offer. Talk with us today and capitalize on your big bandwidth leads and sales opportunities .
