@JaredBusch I have thought about things like text-to-order and whatever would make life simpler for the buyer. I know with the regular customers I deal with I get a lot of texts and just ship things out to wherever they want.
Amazon Prime stocking will cost an Amazon merchant almost 20% and thats why I think you dont see the best prices there. But maybe sometimes convenience still wins?
This thread where we smacked down a fake marketer yesterday got me thinking about marketing and specifically marketing to IT professional.
I am about to spend time and money developing and marketing a "brand" and the most likely outcome is that I will create some bullshit that everyone will ignore. The "time" it will take this firm to create something bothers me more than the marketing. We're talking 90 days for a logo, brand, whatever BS
I think about "Vultr" vs Amazon, Azure and Digital Ocean. When you provide something to the tech crowd they typically will give a listen to a straight pitch. If they need what you got they will engage and give it a try. Then the community pretty much talks about what works and what is a waste of time.
I have thought about just going "Big Bear's VoIP and Network Supply Company". Maybe Bear's Voip for a domain. Maybe spend all the money on advertising and sending out some free stuff.
Or am I just getting lazy since I haven't had to work in a couple weeks? Bah! Does the brand really matter anymore?
@JaredBusch had mentioned the other day that even the better distributors out there like Baltic Networks don't really have anything going on with brand that makes a bit of difference.
Does it cost less? Does it ship fast and from a close location to where its going? Does anything else really matter?
@naammeinkyahai Ah, gotcha. I would still just directly call the billing department. If you explain the renewal is coming they will extend your grace period.
@jaredbusch I think he was saying mobile phone app though. Would be interested if such a thing exists for FreePBX.
I myself could use a chrome plugin to trigger freepbx calls.
FreePBX supports DISA, but that is dialing in to FreePBX then dialing out.
The feature you are describing sounds like something you could easily do in Freeswitch using a common API and some light coding. If FreePBX has an API for a triggered call you would still have to make your own mobile app.
@ivan-palii I ponder what the hell is going on with youtube. For example, at least a week ago there were only 2 or 3 videos regarding Yealink T5 series phones. I cant imagine NO ONE else has uploaded a video with some tags to the new models, unboxing them etc.
I was actually going to upload some video myself (since I am going to be distributing/reselling yealink and was curious to see how long I would take to get to the top results.
I dont know if you are referring to your Microsoft partner, in which case - WTF?
I had a billing issue once where I was waiting for the new biz credit card and didnt want to pay with my personal card. If you call, on the phone, and explain to billing support, they will keep you active.
In my case I called after the expired period, they had me back online for another full 30 days.
How many users?
The only way to find out is to focus the might and power of ML onto a single channel and...
Sigh. Even a large community of IT folks are no match for millions of millennials being click-bated every minute by a screen cap with some exposed cleavage.
Smaller than VULTR I mean. I think they are two data centers, Phoenix and Milwaukee. I imagine that VULTR is just much much bigger.
Or maybe they pay Schmooze for the "official host" moniker?
I think they are just a smaller data center and dont have the benefit of cost scale.
They have a Hosted SBC but they charge per month per port on a level that would rival leasing a $50k ACME packet switch at similar scale.
@kelly I have used it, it works. Just costs so much more than Vultr.
They do support FreePBX via their ticket system and you get a couple free modules, one of which just became more expensive.
But Vultr has been great...
@rojoloco would you serve mangolassi's?
@scottalanmiller IAX2 has more problems than solutions. But again, speaking more to the backend than say a small business PBX deployment.
And again, SIP is tunnel vision.
VOIPSUPPLIES.com is available LOL.
Really do appreciate the feedback on this, if for nothing but to kill off the current brand idea and move on....
Yeah I had tunnel vision at the time. But SIP is the only thing that has mattered for a long time, when you are managing and developing a large voice platform. There is nothing on the horizon to replace it, it will likely evolve for a decade to come.
Still, thinking more about the idea of "supply" being in the name.
@rojoloco Yeah I mean the fact that it had MangoLassi in the bit.ly link, which was picked by the creator. But the Ghetty Images use for profile pic probably did it in.
Can't blame anyone for hussling. Just make a post "Please try my product" and maybe pay for an add on the ML sidebar rotation.
Also probably not even a girl...
Tineye image search returned Ghetty Images
https://tineye.com/search/43da6ae0b1922824443484950467f22e384d2ece/
@dustinb3403 I was sorta looking for affirmation that I needed to go with something else. LOL
I tested it with my customers and had to give an explanation, which got me worried.
The primary products I have worked with for years... SIPRouter, OpenSIPS, SIPWise, just had me in a bubble I think. If my target was Clue Con attendees I know it would go over well.
@nashbrydges said in Anyone Looked at HubSpot CRM:
@jenny_co said in Anyone Looked at HubSpot CRM:
I had an opportunity to work with Hubspot and what I want to say is that it's quite easy-to-use. The interface is user-friendly and a huge advantage it provides is that you can try it for free but for limited basical functionality.
If you started using Hubspot the one more useful thing is Call Tracker for Hubspot CRM
That's 2 of your 3 posts so far that mention Call Tracker. Smelling a theme here. You wouldn't happen to be associated with said product would you?
LOL, given that the link (which was posted wrong and doesnt work) was created as "http://bit.ly/CTHubspotMangolassi" I would guess it's Call Tracker marketing.
Marketers are allowed one self promotion per month right? Might as well just post it straight up.