Sounds like a good plan. Personally, I'm not interested in anything that's not just a consumer going to VON to learn about VoIP and how it could help their business. And even then, if I know everyone else on the list is going to be targeting them, then I doubt I'd bother touching that list. It's not like they'd be waiting for my call/email/whatever.
I'd be more interested in TAUG doing something like inviting these people to explain what they need from us at a meeting (which I probably still will be unable to attend) so we can better form our businesses to their type of client, if we want them. Kind of like a focus group. Again, brainstorming... - Ian On 3/24/06, Jim Van Meggelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been contemplating the fact that we are planning on collecting > business > cards at VON, and I think this raises an interesting question: How does > TAUG > handle the relationship between the user group, and the business > opportunities which stem from our community work? > > The fact is that as a business man, I would love to have a list of > potential > clients, but as someone who represents TAUG, I want to be ethical in how I > use information that properly belongs to the group. > > So I'm going to look at this from the perspective of someone visiting our > booth, and surmise that some of them would want to make contact with > asterisk-related businesses, and others are only interested in the group, > and might in fact be angered by getting sales calls. > > Perhaps we need two jars, one for the draw (which is TAUG-sponsored, and > will not trigger a sales call), and another for people interested in > receiving calls from the business folks among us (which will have nothing > to > do with any contest). > > Any cards that make it into the biz jar can be scanned. We can then email > that info to any member of the list who emails TAUG and asks for it > (within, > say 60 days of VON, after which I think the info should be considered > stale). > > I'm just brainstorming here. Ideas welcome. > > Jim. > > -- > Jim Van Meggelen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 > > "A child is the ultimate startup, and I have three. > This makes me rich." > Guy Kawasaki > -- > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.1/291 - Release Date: 24/03/2006 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
