On 5 Sep 2008, at 08:08, Alex Balashov wrote: > randulo wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Jared Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>>> 2) Do attendees often purchase product from exhibitors? >> >> // based on two Astricons I have attended. >> >> IF ((the product or service is compelling) && (the people >> representing it inspire confidence)) THEN , I would say TRUE; > > Isn't that kind of tautological, though? > > Since presumably people only purchase compelling products, it seems to > have logical equivalence to: "If attendees purchase product, they > purchase product."
Not really, I guess the question is : Do people with budgets go to Astricon? The answer is yes, so you can expect a number of visitors to be in a position to make an experimental product purchase (couple of handsets, trial appliance, software licenses etc). Will they commit to $100K deals on the stand? - no, not unless they already did the research and just want to shake a hand over the deal. Astricon is more about forming relationships than doing immediate deals, but that's true of most tradeshows. Tim. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
