[asterisk-biz] DIDs For Sale

[Alex Balashov]

Alex Balashov wrote:
> Shidan wrote:
> 
>> The good news is if you are successful at delivering good service for 
>> more than a few months at your target pricing, you will have a very 
>> successful business and certainly not enough time to argue with people 
>> who obviously have all the time in the world on their hands, probably 
>> from too little business and lack of social lives. Even though you 
>> probably rushed in advertising your new venture hastily, and even 
>> though through experience I know your goals are very ambitious and 
>> hard, even for seasoned veterans, I'm looking forward to seeing if you 
>> can pull it off and best of luck.
> 
> This is all 100% true.
> 
> But the real obstacle, aside from the kindergarten presentation, is 
> defeating Alex Pilosov's Law of VoIP Profitability, which certainly 
> applies to reselling a major carrier's SIP trunking product and doing 
> little else of value-added consequence.
> 
> Alex Pilosov's law, although sarcastically stated, is very astute, and 
> deserves framing in every office.  It has been elucidated in various 
> forms, by noone better than Alex himself:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com/msg22138.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com/msg21357.html
> 
> The point is that if you did something that is self-evidently 
> meritorious and ground-breakingly innovative, your odds of achieving 
> business success despite the setbacks incurred by your abysmal 
> presentation would be considerably higher.
> 
> But alas, you are competing in an extremely overpopulated market space 
> selling a commodity offering, so to have much hope of surviving you need 
> to, at the very least, do it well.  Standing out against your 
> competitors means having a web site, documentation and attendant 
> supplements that are on at least a 6th grade reading level.

And, I should add, exhibiting a corresponding level of conceptual 
integrity and a semblance of intellectual coherence.


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Alex Balashov
Evariste Systems
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