[asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business

[Mike Hammett]

Well, yeah.  I have customers that are wireless only and ones that are VoIP 
only, but the best ones are the ones that do both.  I can ensure the call 
quality vs. the public Internet.  My marketing costs to add VoIP to my 
wireless customers is hardly anything.  Because they have both services with 
you, they're less likely to leave (not that I've had anyone leave).  One 
invoice for both services for myself means lower billing costs per customer.

I'm quite frugal in my spending habits, but that's out of necessity.


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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nitzan Kon" <nk3569 at yahoo.com>
To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" 
<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Starting a VOIP Business


> --- Mike Hammett <asterisk-biz at ics-il.net> wrote:
>
>> Wireless + VoIP is really the only way to be an ISP or an ITSP.
>> Any other combination results in too  much dependence on someone
>> else and not enough profit.
>
> Dunno about that... as a WISP with VoIP you're pretty much restricted
> to your WISP user base. I'd much rather provide services to anyone who
> wants it, anywhere, than be restricted to only my WISP users. It's a
> solid business logic (you WILL make more revenue at a very low
> investment) - but it's certainly not the only way nor the best way to
> operate as a ITSP.
>
> As far as not making enough profit- it all depends on your spending
> habits. If you go about it the Vonage way, spending millions in
> advertising, packaging, giving your customers bad service at inflated
> prices - then sure, you won't make profit. But if you control your
> costs and invest only in what you REALLY need to (infrastructure,
> necessary personnel only, little/cheap advertising) then sure- you
> won't grow as fast as Vonage.. but you'll actually be here in a few
> years. Vonage won't be. (actually, the name will probably still be
> there, but some other company will buy just the name and customer base
> and leave the rest of the company to go bankrupt as it's already
> doing.)
>
> I wonder if they'll call it "The VoIP bubble" when it happens? ;)
>
>  -- Nitzan
>
>
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