Re: [SiliconBeach] trademark expert

2010-04-21 Thread Peter Franke
Dear Mark, I'm a patent and trade mark attorney, happy to assist with this. Let me know if you would like to have a chat. Regards Peter On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mark Burch m...@markburch.net wrote: Hi, Is there someone around here I can get some one to one advice from in regards

[SiliconBeach] Re: Sales Business development questions

2010-04-21 Thread rgh....@gmail.com
Dear Tony, We are a startup in online advertising area.  We found we may need to do traditional sales activities (eg. Visit client doing sales). Here is my questions: 1.       How to measure the market through traditional sales way? Count how many potential clients? A way to measure the

Re: [SiliconBeach] Startup Lessons Learned live simulcast this Saturday in Sydney

2010-04-21 Thread Brendan Quinn
Hi all, is anyone planning an SLL simulcast in Melbourne? I'm in town from London (via the US) for a few days and would love to watch this with a few people before I head to a friend's wedding on Saturday afternoon... (so I might be very well-dressed for a startup event!) btw is anything

[SiliconBeach] Re: Startup Lessons Learned live simulcast this Saturday in Sydney

2010-04-21 Thread Humphrey
Hi Brendan, I just found out about it and am trying to get registered but have heard nothing from the people I have emailed. Hopefully I will hear soon and will let you know. Cheers, Humphrey On Apr 21, 7:40 pm, Brendan Quinn brendanquin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, is anyone planning an SLL

[SiliconBeach] Take AnzaTechNet's Survey on Australia-US technology connection

2010-04-21 Thread Viki
Anyone who has a few minutes is encouraged to take our survey designed to improve the connection between Australian entrepreneurs and the technology industry in the US. Here's the link: http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e2uxhl67g86emkle/start If you're an entrepreneur, are thinking

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Startup Lessons Learned live simulcast this Saturday in Sydney

2010-04-21 Thread Brendan Quinn
would love to come to sydney for the day, but I've come 25,000 miles to go to the wedding of one of my best friends on Saturday, so I really should turn up now that I'm here! On 22 April 2010 10:39, Michelle Williams michellewill1...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Brendan, Yes, Humphrey is the man to chat

[SiliconBeach] Re: Sales Business development questions

2010-04-21 Thread Jacob Watkins
Hi Tony Firstly let me say I work in sales, but in Finance, Richard has answered Q2 perfectly, basically you have to work out total gross cost of a salesperson including cost of seat, commissions/ bonus, and wages, and set hard and fast targets, if you are confident they can achieve this then

[SiliconBeach] Re: How to I plan to make a startup hub in Parramatta - Yes this the dream

2010-04-21 Thread Michelle Williams
so you know about this? http://eparraconsult.knowandthen.com/about/the-eparra-roadmap-alliance/ you should drop them a message about what you would like to achieve. They are very open to discussion, collaboration and making eParra happen. On Apr 22, 11:02 am, rgh@gmail.com

[SiliconBeach] China Digital Content, Applications and Services Mission, 26-30 July

2010-04-21 Thread Paul Wallbank
AIMIA (the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association ) are leading a China Digital Content, Applications and Services trade mission to China in partnership with Austrade and supported by the Committee of Marketing ICT for Australia (*CoMICTA). Mission delegates will be able to take

[SiliconBeach] Re: China Digital Content, Applications and Services Mission, 26-30 July

2010-04-21 Thread Michelle Williams
HI Paul, The link does not seem to work. Would you have another? Regards Michelle On Apr 22, 2:01 pm, Paul Wallbank paulwallb...@gmail.com wrote: AIMIA (the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association ) are leading a China Digital Content, Applications and Services trade mission to

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Sales Business development questions

2010-04-21 Thread Tony Liu
Thanks very much for your answer, Richard Jacob. I totally understand the answer for Q1 due to long tail theory :) However, I do have 2 new questions regarding market test. Current status: We have done the market research for our start-up. And planning doing a market testing to approve

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Sales Business development questions

2010-04-21 Thread Phil Sim
At the risk of hi-jacking this conversation I'm wondering if any one on the list has ever used or had experienced using any sales outsourcing organisations to manage all or some parts of their sales process? Tbh, as I'm looking at hopefully our next stage of growth, managing the recruitment of