Thanks for the advice. Maybe I should clarify what I was asking. It's not so much the how but the what.
What are people doing to get PBX Sales/Support business. I know how to get IT business but potential customers still see the Telco business as quite different and are used to using separate companies for that. What I was asking is how the traditional telco guys get new sales/support/consulting business. With IT it's usually a combination of cold call/networking/word of mouth. I'm hoping that Telco is the same but I never see any telco guys at networking events so I am thinking they cold call and advertise targeted at business owners. I'm not sure though. -----Original Message----- From: dave cantera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:12 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Marketing 101 shadowym, best thing to do is talk to a lot of consultants, coaches, and marketing people... take the approach you do with learning open source only reverse it... instead of reading source (internal) ask people (external)... it is a big undertaking and the most important task you have... marketing is a bigger task than the technical (for a tech anyway) don't go it alone.... nothing happens without marketing (and sales)... marketing is *not* sales... daveC shadowym wrote: > > I have some general questions about marketing. Lot's of technical > info but I was wondering how people are getting the business to begin > with. I'm from the IT end of things but Telco is quite a bit > different. Is cold calling still the way to go or networking? General stuff like that. > > Are there any resources on the web I can search for? Any suggestions > would be appreciated. > > _______________________________________________ > --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 > > > > -- Building Strong Relationships w/ Intelligent Customer Service -- Interlocking Business Solutions, LLC 856-380-0894 x5000 _______________________________________________ --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
