A bunch of scattered thoughts on the subject o Hosted VoIP/HPBX/UCaaS in
the USA:
The state of VoIP is that most of it is SIP trunking. Cable has the
lion's share and that is all trunks.
XO and Windstream - 2 big Broadsoft shops - have over 1 million SIP trunks.
It has been slow going. Over 10 years and 2000+ Hosted VoIP providers
and less than 25% of the market.
You can't point to the whole market and say: low price or high touch.
The market is highly segmented. Under 10, Under 20, under 50, under 75,
under 150, under 250, 500, 500+
The main conflict: we sell telecom as a replacement for less money
(hence, SIP trunks). And people want what they have but cheaper; hence,
SIP trunks. Hence, cable's dominance. HPBX/UCaaS is selling business
process change -- and people hate change! BAM! The obstacle that
prevents sales.
Another point:
Under 50 buys primarily by price UNLESS there is a relationship and they
can't be hand held.
Mid-market wants managed, managed, managed.
Enterprise wants integration.
Well, now we are seeing even 4 person Allstate shops that want integration.
The reason we have skipped UM and went to HPBX, which lost favor quickly
and jumped to UC -- we needed a bigger bundle to actually get them to
buy. Now it is Workflow or Business Process as a Service that they are
looking for.
You can sell this 2 ways: cheaper or high touch solution.
Most of the people buying right now already have HPBX/UC! They don;t
like the outcome of the service that they had. If they have OTT, they
blame the ITSP, not the crappy Frontier DSL or the TWC blocked ports. If
they had a BSFT, it was probably deployed wrong, they got no great
outcomes from owning it and a lack of training.
One thing is to have a Brand because people associate a Brand (capital
B) with Trust. Without a Brand, you have to build Trust by educating the
customer on what it will be like to own that phone system from they day
they sign the deal.
On the customer acquisition: in the US, CA costs are high. PPC rates
are high. Good salespeople are expensive. Channel partners want a
recurring commission. And price is sensitive -- or so people believe.
Price is all over the place. I haven't seen a deal rejected for price. I
have seen deals get rejected for integration, lack of HIPAA/HITECH BAA,
poor fax solution.
That's just me and my opinion. Want more? Get my 2015 Hosted PBX Market
Report:
http://www.onradsradar.com/2015/09/2015-hosted-pbx-market-overview.html
Or read my blog every day: http://rad-info.net
Thank you.
Regards,
Peter Radizeski
RAD-INFO, Inc.
813.963.5884
http://rad-info.net
On 12/3/2015 5:48 PM, Shripal Daphtary wrote:
Hello all,
I recently downloaded a market research report from Voiplogic. I'm
sure that some of you know that they are a wholesale application
service provider that sells class 4 and 5 services to service
providers. I found the report pretty enlightening (and free). You
just need to take a survey to get it.
I would be interested to see what others in this group think about the
state of Hosted PBX, UC, UCaaS, etc.
Some of the major bullet points are listed in VoipLogic's press release:
http://www.voiplogic.com/dec-1-2015-2015-voip-service-providers-market-research-3rd-annual-report-extensive-original-data/
along with the link to the survey.
I would like to actually see what Peter Rad, thinks of the sales stuff
in the report. In particular this statement:
/"Low touch sales methods – primarily web-based selling – are dropping
while high touch sales methods such as Direct and through Value-Added
Resellers – are growing. This is, in turn, increases the cost of
customer acquisition. That Service Providers appear to perceive value
from the personal assistance of direct sales and customer service
support may be explained by the increasing complexity of Unified
Communication and Collaboration."/
I'm wondering if others see the same trend? it just seems to go
against another figure in the report that states that price is the
most important factor in sales and marketing success. I don't see how
you can be a solution sales organization and still think that price is
the most important thing.
anyway, it was by and large good read with a lot of information.
Shri
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