You make it sound so easy. Even one customer that you sell, you may make $1000 but your initial overhead is high. You need to be full time first of all, and also be capable of supporting your customers.
Just my 2 cents follows: I have been in the IT business for over 15 years, and I cannot count how many customers I have gotten because their previous consultants were either incapable, dishonest, or unable to properly support them. My personal opinion is that lack of support and capability in the IT world is a certain problem. I literally work 24/7, but I would not have it any other way(at least until retirement). The voip market especially has problems with customer retention, reliability, tech support, etc... I feel this has been one of the markets biggest problems. It almost seems to make sense that voip companies be licensed in some form to guarantee a level of reliability and service that customers deserve. Look at the options, there are some companies that are bad, and some that are very good, but from the customers perspective no way to distinguish between them except the feedback on lists and forums, or from people they trust. For example, a number of my clients use Cablevision/Optimum online for voice, and horridly hate the customer service and repair service. Whereas others use verizon and really cannot complain nearly as much(not to say they do not have problems, but verizon has gotten much better recently). It has gotten to the point where I suggest people not to use optimum online, mostly because of their voice network, and the fact that the are subbing most of their service personel. Their internet works well though. I am not promoting verizon in any way, sure they are inflated, but when it comes to the operation of someones business or the effect of technology on their personal life, they would simply rather not deal with the complicated. If the VOIP market is to make a really big boom, we need an enterprise approach, mostly to customer service... This is one reason why vonage has done well, they have taken an enterprise approach to serving clients. Sure they limit their capability a lot (e.g. no iax/sip, etc) but they have a good business model and it will no doubt serve them well in the future. Ok, my 2 cents are over :) Greg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Kalcevich Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 9:13 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs I think it would be biggest is in consulting. The people that refuse or cant to pay for call manager or Avaya's one. Example asterisk & sugarcrm.com they work together. Thats really good to sell. They arent in monster.ca they are banging on doors making $. Make a buch of pre setup asterisk configs that would be most popular make marketing material, dump on website. go in trade shows. Demo and make $ Steve kalcevich Douglas Garstang wrote: >I'm curious why the number of jobs out there requiring Asterisk seems to be pretty low. After looking around dice, monster, careerbuilder etc, I was surprised to find no more than 3-4 employment opportunities with Asterisk throughout the US. > >Is it really that low? There seems to be a job of opportunities for Cisco and other vendors solutions (duh... GUI's are good... duh). I wonder if demand will increase, or am I just looking in the wrong places? > >- Doug. > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- - > >_______________________________________________ >--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > >Asterisk-Users mailing list >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
