[asterisk-biz] All users get free USA/Canada calls

[Frank]

Of course that on the books.. 20 times is all e currencies..

 

Most companies actually sell and buy for actions and less then 0.5% cash..
look at how much skype was bought for. And how much in cash.

 

Still.. once you are bug you can do it all.

 

I remember paypal when it started.. and ebay was pushing the company trough
its auction payment systems.

 

Should of bought them early on . . lol

 

 

 

 

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[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Henry Coleman
[VoIP-PBX.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 11:53 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] All users get free USA/Canada calls

 

The bottom line is how much does it cost to get a customer 

So here's an example of the maths, its inaccurate but it shows the principle
....
The average guy spends $10 per month on Skype and there 1,000 ,000  of them
That's $10 million per month or $120 million a year 
Healthy companies trade between 20-40 times earnings, therefore the book
value
of the company is (conservatively) $2.4 billion if you want to buy all its
shares.
Now if the company is worth $2.4 billion and has a 10% asset base and one
million customers each customer must be worth about  $1100. 
So they can afford to give away $1100 per year or $80 per month just to have
you as a customer.
Going back to the original guy who spends $10 per month (maybe $20 if its
free) the company 
increases in value by  $1100 - $240 ($20 x 12 months) = $860  every time
they sign up a new customer .
Of course  there is some attrition but that is all factored into the
equation.

Henry  
      

 


John Scully wrote:



I was once in a sales meeting where a guy doing a presentation countered an
argument that we 
would be giving the product away for free by saying 
"Yes, but we will make it up on volume!" 
Perhaps he works for Skype now. 


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All this just to win over customers. 

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:41 +0200, Wilson Pickett wrote: 



http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14586267.htm 

"SAN JOSE, Calif. - Skype, eBay Inc.'s Internet telephone subsidiary, 
has stopped charging users for dialing up people on traditional 
landline and mobile phones in the U.S. and Canada. 

The Internet telephone service, which has always offered free PC-to-PC 
calls around the world, said Monday it will offer its SkypeOut service 
for free until the end of the year. Previously, Skype users paid about 
2 cents a minute for calls to landline and mobile telephones." 
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