Dean, I agree whole heartedly about the short sightedness of Fonality. There is something wrong with the equation when there is no longevity for the consultant to bring clients into the Fonality (and as I look at over companies, the same hold true) fold. I think that the only way to be successful is the form some partnership with one of the of the plethora of PC stores in the area, and a relationship ship with a VOIP equipment provider, and go forward from there.
On 2/17/07, Dean Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Mitul and Garrett, Mitual I personally read, that when you used the term 'we' you meant Fonality and not yourself or you representing Fonality so your choice of description was fine. As someone who has been on both side of the seller/channel relationship and has set up distribution agreements for a number of different companies I understand how hard it is both for Fonality and for people who are considering becoming their reseller/partners. There is always a balance between potential profitability and actually encouraging potential partners to bring you in to deals. This will always have a direct output on how quickly a company or technology grows. Regarding Fonality specifically, I don't see why they shouldn't offer an ongoing percentage of all sales in the future even if you as an agent are to step aside after during the first sale. Fonailty wouldn't have been in the account in the first place to make ongoing sales if you the reseller didn't make that initial introduction. So not allowing for a percentage of all ongoing sales as a 'cost of doing business' is a little short sited. In the past I've represented a number of companies including Salesforce.com when they were first getting started and nobody knew who they were or even trusted ASP's as a business tool. Apart from the fact that it is a great product I recommended them to everyone I knew. Especially as every quarter I get a check from them for clients I sold them into years ago. I may have had nothing to do with either Salesforce.com or the client for a number of years and you may feel why does 'Dean' feel entitled to these residual checks? Well because if you don't think that I still recommend Salesforce.com as a crm to anyone who asks - then you are kidding yourself. With Fonality only paying a single check once....in a few years from now who do you think their resellers are going to remember? Who ever paid them last that's who. This is just my personal opinion and I don't represent either a potential reseller or Fonality, but if I was managing their international expansion this would be my reccomendations to future rollouts. P.S> :) Of course with regards to www.Mexuar.com we are a little different in that everyone can become a Mexuar reseller. All asterisk system integrators can buy a Mexuar Corraleta SDK license for $US2,000 and sell it to their client, we make no recommendations or enforcement on what price this is passed on to the client. Check out http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Mexuar If you don't know what Mexuar is check out http://www.mexuar.com/downloads/Level1Products/CorraletaDemoSound.swf If you are in the Americas, Asia or Australia contact me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are in UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-212-203-4357 Ph +1-917-207-3420 Mb
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