[asterisk-biz] Asterisk Exchange - a waste of money?

[Sevana Oy]

I sent materials, so my message is waiting for moderator's approval, but you are welcome to send me your offers for web promotional activities. Thanks!

P. S. Steve... it was hard to imagine doing any due diligence on a Digium owned web site :)

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Totaro 
  To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 12:03 AM
  Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Asterisk Exchange - a waste of money?





  On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Sevana Oy <sales at sevana.fi> wrote:

    Hi,

    A couple of months ago we registered our product AQuA at Asterisk Exchange. We were told that it collects like 14K visitors per month and knowing interest to our product from Asterisk community we have calculated a certain super-mini-minimal % of visitors coming from Asterisk Exchange to our web site... Here comes the funny thing - there was no traffic increase since then, there were no referral visist from Asterisk Exchange... We are getting something a bit less than 100 product inquiries a month and NONE has ever mentioned that learnt about AQuA from Asterisk Exchange... 

    My question is: have we just wasted $2500 for being listed there? Is Asterisk Exchange some kind of bubble? Unfortunately we never got response from the people who sold us this service :-)

    Thanks and cheers,
    Vallu
    Sevana Oy, vendor of AQuA/NIQA/Asterisk VQM
    http://www.sevana.fi



  Not much for due diligence are you? 

  I would have asked for a per click pay scheme.  I have never heard of Asterisk Exchange but it is a good name.  I am sure it gets alot of hits as www.asteriskhelpdesk.com does for me.  I haven't done anything with it for years but there are thousands of unique hits.

  Give me $150 and I will put your banner up on the site.  I do get quite a few phone calls but I have not seen any action on the find an expert part of the site.  That may be because I wasn't looking to turn a profit so I let people post direct contact information.

  BTW, this is scary "AQuA/NIQA/Asterisk VQM", I probably wouldn't click on a link like that.

  Thanks,
  Steve T



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