Just to quickly mention "Competition" This meeting is not about trying to learn about the competition. It is a fact finding and a network session.
After the first meeting we will all walk away knowing what we all do, what we specialize in, and how we can all compliment each others businesses. And most of all we will also come out of this learning and sharing business tactics. Kristian -----Original Message----- From: Chad Kempt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 10:08 PM Cc: [email protected] Subject: SPAM-LOW: [biz] Re: [on-asterisk] RE: Business Owners G2G This is pretty much what I was thinking Dave. My business is involved in small/medium businesses deploying 'usually' (and I say that tongue in cheek) either a Linux Domain with windows clients, samba acting as a domain controller, or a Windows Small Business Server. Primarily I'm interested in selling monthly maintenance contracts on hardware (I do a fair bit of systems integration) and anything to do with software/point of sale/etc; I usually let a partnering business take care of. I am a quickbooks proadvisor so any businesses dealing quickbooks I tend to taek care of (I found it counter productive to bring in several parties to work on a 3 user office for example) but anything bigger...well.. I got interested in Asterisk and have been offering some VOIP services on a limited basis, for larger implementations I'd be more than happy to partner with someone(s) with more experience and understanding of the environment. It's a give and take relationship though, if I'm bringing people in to do work for me with regards to XYZ, I expect to get pulled in by them with my services on there clients with regards to my products ZYV. Just name the date and place and you can count me in, the guest speaker idea mentioned previously is also very appealing...with regards to marketing and what not, I've always found that a nuisance and I'd like to know what's working for others. Oh and for anyone worried about competition, I don't think that's going to be an issue...besides I'm not even operating in the GTA, the closest I come is probably Mississauga. Regardless though I have found it a benefit as opposed to a detriment to partner with other businesses that are slightly different with regards to there product offering. Regards, Chad Dave Donovan wrote: > I'd be interested. I think a lot of us are small shops and we'd > benefit from partnering on certain things. I can see opportunities > for me to partner with a group or individual with experience deploying > hardened Linux boxes in an enterprise environment with me providing > some expertise in call centre deployments and CRM software; just as an > example. > > I'd be interested to know what everyone else is doing. What is your > focus, what skills or specialties to you offer. > > I think that a number of the businesses in the group are not focused > entirely on Asterisk. Some are Linux implementation shops that also > do Asterisk. I'm an IT consultant who does some Asterisk where it > applies and I'm sure there are endless combinations. I know when a > project isn't well suited to my company. The more people I can > network with about business, the better I can hand that deal off or > partner with someone. > > On a matter of protocol, we should probably consider moving this > thread over to taug-biz. I'll copy this message to that list to > facilitate the transition. > > Dave > > On 5/15/06, *Kristian Ward* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Well the basis of the meet would be everything from business > development to > sales & marketing and everything in between. > > I have access to a lot of people out there such as Marketing > Agencies to > high level accountants who can come in and speak with us to > educate us how > to help us grow our business, get grants and loans to increase our > technology offerings and this is to just mention some of the ideas > I have on > the top of my head. > > This is not going to be a meeting to talk tech - the regular > meetings are > good for that. > > I want this meeting to be a time for all of our minds to connect and a > decent way to help each other with all of our very different skill > sets. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Van Meggelen [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 10:31 AM > To: 'Kristian Ward'; 'Kristian Ward'; 'Dominic Ogbonna'; 'Mark > Palser'; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] RE: Business Owners G2G > > For myself, I find that the regular TAUG meetings discuss most of > what I am > interested in from a business perspective. > > If you could give a bit more detail on what you would want to > focus on I'd > be able to better evaluate my interest. > > Jim > > -- > Jim Van Meggelen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 > <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177> > > "A child is the ultimate startup, and I have three. > This makes me rich." > Guy Kawasaki > -- > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kristian Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > > Sent: May 15, 2006 10:16 AM > > To: 'Kristian Ward'; 'Dominic Ogbonna'; 'Mark Palser'; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [on-asterisk] RE: Business Owners G2G > > > > Hello group, > > > > I would like to setup an Asterisk Business GTG. > > > > The meeting would give us business owners the chance to > > connect with each other and share and learn from one another. > > It would definitely be a great way to help us all build our > > businesses to be as successful as we all aspired for them to be. > > > > What I wanted to see from this email is how many of us would > > be willing to come out one night for me to organize something > > really nice for us as a group to get together once a month or > > something like that. > > > > Let me know if you're interested > > > > Kristian > > > > -- > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/339 - Release > > Date: 5/14/2006 > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/339 - Release > > Date: 14/05/2006 > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/339 - Release Date: > 14/05/2006 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/339 - Release Date: > 5/14/2006 > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/339 - Release Date: > 5/14/2006 > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.6/339 - Release Date: > 5/14/2006 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > David Donovan > Consultant > Fulcrum Solutions --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. 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