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Million Dollar Weight Loss
The site ascended so quickly in fact that there is no 3-month average. This would seem like a smart purchase for the company. In terms of unique visitors, I estimate that at this Alexa ranking and 1 page view per visitor the company is likely attracting 500,000+ unique visitors per month.Traffic Rank for milliondollarweightloss.com (what's this)
Today | 1 wk. Avg. | 3 mos. Avg. | 3 mos. Change |
8,323 | 7,642 | -- | -- |
Now that the auction is over I wonder if the pixel ad industry will find a way to sustain the immense traffic it has generated for the various ad sites and the advertisers supporting them.
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Homeshoring
There was a great article in BusinessWeek a while back titled Call Centers in the Rec Room focusing on how companies are beginning to recognize the problems associated with outsourcing to countries that have agents witch accents. Apparently companies are beginning to realize the cost of losing customers and acquiring new ones.
There was another equally good article on TMCnet titled A Victory for the Home Agent Business Model that focuses on Willow CSN and their contribution to the industry. Having known
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More on SIP
The SIP market is growing so quickly it is exciting that it defies growth projections. I wrote about SIP just today and how the standard is now so closely intertwined with VoIP, it is tough to see where one technology stops and the other picks up. Incidentally the first issue of SIP Magazine is printed. I haven’t seen it but will get my hands on a copy tomorrow. I can’t wait. There is nothing like seeing the launch of a new publication. It is perhaps one of the most exciting parts of my job. The interest in this inaugural issue has been higher than I expected. I hope the first issue exceeds your expectations. Be sure to get you free subscription immediately if you have any interest in session initiation protocol.
Here is an interview with Ken Osowski the VP Marketing & Product Management at Pactolus Communications Software Corporation that will appear in the first issue:
Where is the SIP market headed?
SIP is formulating the multimedia story for IMS-enabled networks. It will become the core signaling/event notification protocol for all real-time media – voice, video, messaging, presence events, multi-media messaging – that never had been wrapped before in a single application framework. All embodied interfaces such as MMS and SMS will be consumed by SIP, from the core network to the handset.
What are your expectations or estimates for the growth of the SIP market?
For 2006, expect that incumbent service providers and carriers will start their migration off of TDM-based services platforms and move to SIP-based services and endpoints. This growth will continue to be fueled by increased competition from Tier 2 and 3 players that have SIP-based network approaches at the core of their business models. This market dynamic will force all players big and small to adopt SIP.
How does the development of SIP affect your product plans?
As SIP pioneers, we’re past baseline incorporation issues, so two product areas stand out: 1) incorporating advanced user interactivity, call handling, and rich billing options into voice services, heightening the user experience and reducing their costs, and 2) helping service providers achieve broad cross-market/subscriber voice service reach. For example, enabling long-haul IP network operators to deliver wireless services and leverage their backhaul capability.
How do you your customers benefit from SIP?
As devices, intermediate networks and core networks all become SIP-based, everything becomes more functional and affordable for both service providers and consumers as proprietary devices and single function networks become obsolete. Specifically, while all cell phones today have Java applets, there’ll be new events & applications that are driven by 3rd parties directly to the consumer.
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The SIP Standard
It is also great see that a single standard like SIP has emerged as something we can all rally around. What may have really slowed industry growth in years past was a plethora of standards that sewed more confusion in the market than necessary. When you have so much confusion in a market you slow purchasing and the industry can't get off the ground effectively. I think we don’t have that problem anymore and now the challenge for the industry is to ensure we don’t have to fear a two-tiered Internet that chokes our access to consumers.
SIP turned out to be not only a standard that was logical for the market to adopt but it also benefited from being the standard that was becoming most popular on September 11th. The industry really slowed its innovation for a few years after this incident and as such SIP seemed liked a target that was stationary enough that everyone could develop to it with minimal fear of missing the VoIP boat.
I was reminded of this while reading this great article about the history of Internet Telephony Conference & Expo recounting some of the best times we have had at the show and how we got started. It is amazing hat we are in the ninth year of this event and still growing fast. What perhaps is the most amazing change from years past is the international audience at this event that seems to grow every year.
If you are in the VoIP market in any capacity, you owe it to yourself to see this show. It is really different from most every other event you will witness in the
I hope to welcome you in a few days in person.
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