[asterisk-biz] Check this out :(

[shadowym]

Like a lot of techies, I'm strong on the technical stuff but weak on
marketing/sales.  I'm sure there are a LOT of people who could benefit from
a sales/marketing wiki or forum or whatever for sharing ideas/marketing
material etc.
 
From: bob murphy [mailto:springsource at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 6:27 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Check this out :(
 
My original intention, which I admit that I did not communicate clearly, was
to suggest that we maintain dialogue on this board around best practices.
Specifically on how to position value and charge accordingly.  And that we
all present our respective organizations as high value add service boutiques
specializing in Open Source Telephony integration.  This will allow all of
us to offer solutions that are competitive to Cisco, Shoretel, Nortel etc.
and keep our respective bottom lines healthy.  Anyone who has lived through
a technology adoption cycle (or three of them) knows what I am talking
about.  We will all be well served, as will our clients, if we go into the
mass adoption phase BEFORE commodization happens.  In a word - Community.
Let's maintain a community of opportunists who create a market opportunity.
I believe we can do this and all of us will prosper and our clients will be
ecstatic. 
 
Bob Murphy
Arreva Communications

 
On 10/15/07, Aleks Clark <aleks.clark at gmail.com> wrote: 
Yea, price fixing aside, I can sympathize with wanting to know how much to
charge for something...business not being my strong suite :P Of course,
that's probably why I'm running telecoms in Iraq instead of selling voip and
wifi in some nice burough... 
 
On 9/15/07, Derrick Moennick <derrick at phonesource.ca > wrote: 
Guys,

No need to get up in arms here. For obvious reasons price fixing is not
the way to go here. This is my mistake for adding my two cents. At any 
rate different markets require different pricing structures so to all 
conform to one pricing structure does not make sense - this is what I
meant originally.

/D

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com 
[mailto: <mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com>
asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Paul
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 9:37 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion 
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Check this out :(

A literate person reading my first paragraph would see that my second 
paragraph is obvious sarcasm.

Aren't you the fool who suggested price fixing in this thread? What else 
would you expect? There is an old saying that there is no honor among
thieves. Please let me join your stupid game so I can break the rules 
and cut your throat.

bob murphy wrote:



 
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