Re: [asterisk-biz] DIDs For Sale

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/asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com/msg22138.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com/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.

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Alex Balashov
Evariste Systems
Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/
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