31st doesn't look too bad for me as of now...where did you want to
meet? Is everyone except me in the GTA? I'm coming in from...well
pretty much Hamilton (actually Caledonia...I think the native Americans
have made my town a bit famous...or infamous as the case may be) so
North York is almost 2 hours for me, so if people are closer to the
Mississauga side of the GTA I'd be happy to meet there :) Of course I'm
being a bit selfish here...but I'm just trying to save myself some
driving! :D
Kristian Ward wrote:
This is exactly what I wanted to get started.
I'm looking to try to shoot for a meeting on the 31st.
How does this date fair for everyone who is interested?
Kristian
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From: Chad Kempt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 10:08 PM
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: SPAM-LOW: [biz] Re: [on-asterisk] RE: Business Owners G2G
This is pretty much what I was thinking Dave.
My business is involved in small/medium businesses deploying 'usually'
(and I say that tongue in cheek) either a Linux Domain with windows
clients, samba acting as a domain controller, or a Windows Small
Business Server. Primarily I'm interested in selling monthly
maintenance contracts on hardware (I do a fair bit of systems
integration) and anything to do with software/point of sale/etc; I
usually let a partnering business take care of. I am a quickbooks
proadvisor so any businesses dealing quickbooks I tend to taek care of
(I found it counter productive to bring in several parties to work on a
3 user office for example) but anything bigger...well.. I got
interested in Asterisk and have been offering some VOIP services on a
limited basis, for larger implementations I'd be more than happy to
partner with someone(s) with more experience and understanding of the
environment. It's a give and take relationship though, if I'm bringing
people in to do work for me with regards to XYZ, I expect to get pulled
in by them with my services on there clients with regards to my products
ZYV.
Just name the date and place and you can count me in, the guest speaker
idea mentioned previously is also very appealing...with regards to
marketing and what not, I've always found that a nuisance and I'd like
to know what's working for others. Oh and for anyone worried about
competition, I don't think that's going to be an issue...besides I'm not
even operating in the GTA, the closest I come is probably Mississauga.
Regardless though I have found it a benefit as opposed to a detriment to
partner with other businesses that are slightly different with regards
to there product offering.
Regards,
Chad
Dave Donovan wrote:
I'd be interested. I think a lot of us are small shops and we'd
benefit from partnering on certain things. I can see opportunities
for me to partner with a group or individual with experience deploying
hardened Linux boxes in an enterprise environment with me providing
some expertise in call centre deployments and CRM software; just as an
example.
I'd be interested to know what everyone else is doing. What is your
focus, what skills or specialties to you offer.
I think that a number of the businesses in the group are not focused
entirely on Asterisk. Some are Linux implementation shops that also
do Asterisk. I'm an IT consultant who does some Asterisk where it
applies and I'm sure there are endless combinations. I know when a
project isn't well suited to my company. The more people I can
network with about business, the better I can hand that deal off or
partner with someone.
On a matter of protocol, we should probably consider moving this
thread over to taug-biz. I'll copy this message to that list to
facilitate the transition.
Dave
On 5/15/06, *Kristian Ward* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Well the basis of the meet would be everything from business
development to
sales & marketing and everything in between.
I have access to a lot of people out there such as Marketing
Agencies to
high level accountants who can come in and speak with us to
educate us how
to help us grow our business, get grants and loans to increase our
technology offerings and this is to just mention some of the ideas
I have on
the top of my head.
This is not going to be a meeting to talk tech - the regular
meetings are
good for that.
I want this meeting to be a time for all of our minds to connect and a
decent way to help each other with all of our very different skill
sets.
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To: 'Kristian Ward'; 'Kristian Ward'; 'Dominic Ogbonna'; 'Mark
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Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] RE: Business Owners G2G
For myself, I find that the regular TAUG meetings discuss most of
what I am
interested in from a business perspective.
If you could give a bit more detail on what you would want to
focus on I'd
be able to better evaluate my interest.
Jim
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> Subject: [on-asterisk] RE: Business Owners G2G
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> Hello group,
>
> I would like to setup an Asterisk Business GTG.
>
> The meeting would give us business owners the chance to
> connect with each other and share and learn from one another.
> It would definitely be a great way to help us all build our
> businesses to be as successful as we all aspired for them to be.
>
> What I wanted to see from this email is how many of us would
> be willing to come out one night for me to organize something
> really nice for us as a group to get together once a month or
> something like that.
>
> Let me know if you're interested
>
> Kristian
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