[Asterisk-Users] Demo phones with advertisement announcements

[Race Vanderdecken]

Yes, something similar has been done before with PSTN phones.

Callers would call a number, listen to a bunch of ads, then get X
minutes of free phone time for that one call.

This was about 5-10 years ago and was covered in news stories. I think
they might still be doing it.

Poking around on google it seems to be a viable idea.

http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/8061
http://www.directmag.com/mag/marketing_listen_thisfree_long/


Seems advertisers are paying for it. But the dates are old.

I think if you could get international calls involved you might have a
business.

Race "The Tyrant" Vanderdecken



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Ronald
Wiplinger
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 8:07 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Demo phones with advertisement announcements

I am asked very often to let the user try for a while. And of course 
they want to have it for free. However, there is nothing like free lunch

out there.

I got the idea to "bother" these people, by playing an advertisement 
before they actually make the call and even after a certain time.
Has anybody done that before?

Ideas I got for that is:
1. put the caller into a conference call with the advertisment channel
2. let the caller listen to the first advertisement before inviting the 
other party to the conference
3. keep playing ads, till the called party is in the conference too.
4. immediately silent the ads, when called party pickes up
5. wait the desired time and start to play the next advertisement block.

Advanced feature:
1. give the caller the chance to pay for the call by key in a  
password(?), that means:
a. it kicks out the advertisement
or
b. forward the call (????) so that the call is now directly connected.

`?' means I am not sure if that is a good idea nor if that is possible


bye

Ronald

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