[Asterisk-biz] Re: Asterisk-Biz Digest, Vol 10, Issue 49

[Olivier Krief]

Dean,

My first foughts were to dedicate this marketing effort towards the 
enterprise market ie to help Asterisk integrators to convice large companies 
to use Asterisk IP-PBX as a replacement to Nortel's and Cisco's PBX.
I thought that in the IP Telephony Service Provider or Call Centers spaces, 
brand awareness was not as imperative as in enterprise space as nobody 
really needs to mention where the technologies he chooses to provide 
telephony or call services come from.

"Loosing for poor quality of service, customers you wouldn't have anyway 
without Asterisk cost advantage is not the same as cutting employees 
telephony as you'll never get any reward for the savings but sure get fired 
for the cutting."

Maybe this last thinking is naive and not relevant as I'm not familiar 
myself with the ITSP or CC spaces.
Do you think it could be of any help to enlarge this marketing effort to 
ITSP or CC ?

Cheers

Olivier
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>Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 19:31:38 -0400
>From: "Dean Collins" <Dean at collins.net.pr>
>Subject: RE: [Asterisk-biz] Marketshare of Asterisk Solutions
>To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion"
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>Olivier, I don't install asterisk so I don't have customers to support
>but I'm prepared to help out on editing/mockup etc.
>
>Also don't forget to include background info on carriers that use
>Asterisk eg. www.freshtel.net is supporting 20,000 customers on more or
>less a highly evolved version of Asterisk.
>
>Cheers,
>Dean
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-biz-
>> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Olivier Krief
>> Sent: Thursday, 12 May 2005 5:48 PM
>> To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Marketshare of Asterisk Solutions
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would be very pleased to contribute to (or lead) a collective effort
>> developping Asterisk brand awareness and marketing tools for the
>> enterprise
>> market.
>>
>> Here is a to-do-list we could work on :
>> - write a set of meaningful success stories (who ? when ? where ? how
>?
>> ...),
>> - build an online directory allowing an Asterisk integrator to put a
>> prospective customer in touch with an installed customer inside (or
>> outside)
>> a given region (such directory should respect everyone's privacy and a
>set
>> of business rules towards competitors)
>> - organize high visibility events (for example : "synchronise Digium
>DS3
>> card or next major Linux announcement with the largest conference call
>> ever
>> hold over the internet" so that we can demonstrate Asterisk
>reliability
>> and
>> scalabilty)
>> - design a chosen set of business cases underlining open source
>> superiority
>> over commercial call management software.
>>
>> Those willing to contribute, please, do not hesitate to contact me.
>>
>> Olivier KRIEF
>> AppliCom
>> olivier.krief at gmail.com
>>
>> >
>> > Message: 3
>> > Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 12:09:13 -0600
>> > From: Jason Becker <jason at coalescentsystems.ca>
>> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Marketshare of Asterisk Solutions -
>> > addition
>> > To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
>> > <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>> > Message-ID: <4280F8C9.3010606 at coalescentsystems.ca>
>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
>> >
>> > Puja Haji Abbassi wrote:
>> >
>> >>Hi again,
>> >>
>> >>to be a little bit more specific. I need specific information on for
>> >>example market share of asterisk solutions if possible in relation
>to
>> >>"usual" IP-PBX.
>> >>
>> >>
>> > /"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
>> >
>> > - Benjamin Disraeli/
>> >
>> > I firmly believe that Asterisk will do to the PBX marketplace what
>Linux
>> > did to the UNIX marketplace. But this really is the province of
>> > marketing types and surveys and such and you can sample until you
>get
>> > the "right" data that will support whatever it is you want to
>support.
>> > If you still want to pursue this I'd look at the issue from say the
>> > perspective of estimating MySQL's marketshare and see what lessons
>can
>> > be learnt.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jason Becker
>> > Director & CEO
>> > Coalescent Systems Inc.
>> > Enabling Open Source Telephony
>> > 403.244.8089
>> > www.coalescentsystems.ca
>> >