[Asterisk-biz] Strategic Alliance

[Paul]

alex at pilosoft.com wrote:

>On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Gary Lawrence wrote:
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>>I am interested in aligning with a company who can provide all the
>>technical work and hardware for complex Asterisk installations. I've
>>been working in the call center industry for about 10 years and am now
>>converting my systems over to VOIP and Asterisk. I have a DS3 at a
>>carrier colo for call termination with plenty of room for expansion. I
>>need help keeping up with the tech and support side. If you are
>>interested, you should meet most of the following points.
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>Clarify, since this hypothetical company will be doing all the work, what
>will you be doing?
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What he should be doing is paying for all the work the hypothetical 
company will be doing.

The ones I run into usually want me to do all the work and give them a 
line of unsecured credit on top of that. When I hear words like 
"alliance" or "partnership" these days, I get suspicious. What I(the 
technogeek) need from a partner is marketing, administration and 
capital. I am interested in "aligning" with someone who can help in 
those areas.

>If someone has capability to build, configure and ship obviously custom
>systems in days, why would they deal with you?
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Again, they would deal with him to get income. Anybody with intelligence 
would want money up front or outstanding credit report before proceeding.