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

[Steve Totaro]

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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