[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Conusultant

[Michael Blood]

Our consulting rate is $90 an hour.  

That keeps 4 of us busy between 7 and 10 hours a day.

However many of our best customers started as individuals or small companies
evaluating whether asterisk or some other solution was right for them.
We may have taken a risk with losing money with them by doing some sort of
pro bono or low pay work to help them out and in the long run it has paid
off.

I am not saying every one has to have this same philosophy but I am saying
that it can be a very sound and rewarding proposition.

We no longer look at individual jobs like "Will we make $30 or $300 dollars
from this job".
We look at clients like "Will this be a benificial relationship".   

Jonathan,

More power to you.  If you think you can provide a good service and you feel
you are being compensated enough then that is good business in my opinion.

Michael


-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Danny Froberg
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 12:19 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Conusultant


For godness sake, if someone wants to help someone thats relatively new 
at this for $30 let them. It dont mean that either of them are lesser 
beings than the $200 / hour guys that have a tendency to put their noses 
in the air.

Sure this is the Biz list, but we're also a community ffs.

/Danny

Paul wrote:
> In most cases it turns out there is no adequate backup of the system
> they want me to work on. If they won't pay me to setup backup before 
> modifying things, I dismiss them as a bunch of wannabee losers. Any 
> non-losers looking for a consultant/engineer/programmer out there? 
> Contact me offlist. If your stuff is not valuable enough to care about 
> security and backup, contact one of the $30 opportunists.
> 
> Mark Phillips wrote:
> 
>> Agreed.
>>
>> Perhaps folks would do well by the axiom "you get what you pay for".
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Ed Guy wrote:
>>
>>> Then there are those of us who have made out quite well cleaning up
>>> after those
>>> opportunists that have deployed the $20 solutions.
>>>
>>> /ed
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark Phillips wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Jonathan. A Gentleman and a Scholar.
>>>>
>>>> However, somehow I don't think I'll be landing this particular job.
>>>> I find the many requests for professional help on this list rarely 
>>>> end up in paid work for someone like me. Folks really are looking 
>>>> for the $10 fix.
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>> www.enicomms.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jonathan k. Creasy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Since I am assuming Mark Phillips is a consultant, I'll withdraw 
>>>>> my willingness to do it for $30 out of respect. I know what a 
>>>>> consultant who is in this business would have to charge to remain 
>>>>> in this business.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -Jonathan
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
>>>>> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mark 
>>>>> Phillips
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 9:06 AM
>>>>> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Conusultant
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you guys in business as consultants or are you just
>>>>> opportunists hoping to pick up a few quick bucks?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jonathan k. Creasy wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd do it for $30 :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's a 10 minute job.
>>>>>> -Jonathan
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
>>>>>> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mark 
>>>>>> Phillips
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 8:55 AM
>>>>>> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Conusultant
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Too cheap dude.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Chad Osmond wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Did you get someone to do this? If not, I'll do it for $30USD
>>>>>>> paypal.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Chad
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
>>>>>>> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
>>>>>>> chawki hammoud
>>>>>>> Sent: August 10, 2005 2:21 AM
>>>>>>> To: Asterisk-Biz at lists.digium.com
>>>>>>> Subject: [Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Conusultant
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am looking for Asterisk Consultant to help me set-up my IAX 
>>>>>>> server
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> to
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> receive connection from another IAX box. I followed the 
>>>>>>> reference material of how to do that, but the connection attempt 
>>>>>>> get rejected.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You can e-mail me at chawki at asterisksounds.com or call me at
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 96170982472
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> about the cost of your hourly consultation fee.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards;
>>>>>>> Chawki salam
>>>>>>>
>>
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