Alex Balashov wrote: > Shidan wrote: > >> The good news is if you are successful at delivering good service for >> more than a few months at your target pricing, you will have a very >> successful business and certainly not enough time to argue with people >> who obviously have all the time in the world on their hands, probably >> from too little business and lack of social lives. Even though you >> probably rushed in advertising your new venture hastily, and even >> though through experience I know your goals are very ambitious and >> hard, even for seasoned veterans, I'm looking forward to seeing if you >> can pull it off and best of luck. > > This is all 100% true. > > But the real obstacle, aside from the kindergarten presentation, is > defeating Alex Pilosov's Law of VoIP Profitability, which certainly > applies to reselling a major carrier's SIP trunking product and doing > little else of value-added consequence. > > Alex Pilosov's law, although sarcastically stated, is very astute, and > deserves framing in every office. It has been elucidated in various > forms, by noone better than Alex himself: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg22138.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg21357.html > > The point is that if you did something that is self-evidently > meritorious and ground-breakingly innovative, your odds of achieving > business success despite the setbacks incurred by your abysmal > presentation would be considerably higher. > > But alas, you are competing in an extremely overpopulated market space > selling a commodity offering, so to have much hope of surviving you need > to, at the very least, do it well. Standing out against your > competitors means having a web site, documentation and attendant > supplements that are on at least a 6th grade reading level.
And, I should add, exhibiting a corresponding level of conceptual integrity and a semblance of intellectual coherence. -- Alex Balashov Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 Mobile : (+1) (706) 338-8599 _______________________________________________ --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
