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

[Steve Totaro]

Wow, that server has been up for many years and is offline....

An IBM X305 I think.  Might be a bit before I make the journey to that colo.

Probably a dead hard drive.

Thanks,
Steve T

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Steve Totaro <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com
> wrote:

> And the Government never lies to you.
>
> And all police are the good guys.
>
> Digium is a funny company.
>
> I don't do web promotion activities.  I suppose if you had something cool
> to trade, I will show you my webalizer stats and put up your ad, see if you
> get any hits from it.  If you do, then we make a trade.
>
> Like I said, I made that site to give back to the community and help people
> that need help find consultants but not on guru.com or whatever, a
> specific site for VoIP/Asterisk.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve T
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Sevana Oy <sales at sevana.fi> wrote:
>
>>  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 <stotaro at asteriskhelpdesk.com>
>> *To:* Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>> *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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