[Asterisk-Users] Demo phones with advertisement announcements

[Ronald Wiplinger]

Craig wrote:

There is a great missunderstanding between what you guys are talking now 
and what I want.
I am not looking for advertiser to support free calls.
However, I am asked now more often "Can I test your service for a few 
days?"
These tests I have to pay from my own pocket. The customers should get 
the chance to test during different day / night time, but not a free 
service.
Therefore they will get a limit of a certain amount what they can make 
phone calls for, the system should play some ads, but that ads would be 
more or less our own ads, hints, feature information, ......

Another approach would be just let them make a phone call from 2 
minutes, and not anymore the same number!!!

bye

Ronald

>A few years ago there was a company that set up in Australia offering
>free long distance calls, they played an add to you at the beginning and
>then every so often.
>
>Came out with a lot of fanfare and disappeared pretty quickly.
>
>Not sure if they went broke (most likely), couldn't find any users that
>wanted free phone calls (unlikely)or the concept was ahead of it's time
>(possibility).
>
>There was also a couple of people that pushed free dialup internet in
>return for users having to view a certain amount of their advertising.
>Unfortunately the business models didn't stack up and they went belly
>up.
>
>cr
>
>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:06:57 +0800
>From: Ronald Wiplinger <ronald at elmit.com>
>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Demo phones with advertisement announcements
>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
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>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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