{"id":5416,"date":"2007-04-18T20:23:16","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T20:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/trixbox-buyers-club.html"},"modified":"2007-04-18T20:23:16","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T20:23:16","slug":"trixbox-buyers-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/trixbox-buyers-club.html","title":{"rendered":"Trixbox Buyer\u2019s Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trixbox.org\/uploads\/trixStoreBag.gif\" \/>Airlines have frequent flyer programs. Hotels have them. Credit cards have them. I am sure you were wondering why the open source communications community to date has not thought to also have a frequent buyer program. C&rsquo;mon. Be honest. I know this is what keeps my readers up at night. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Responding to industry demand or just emulating what has worked in countless other industries, Trixbox now has something they call a Buyer&rsquo;s Club. They say this club is their way of giving back (OK I paraphrased a bit) to the open-source communities of Asterisk and Trixbox.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">What you get is discounts on 1,200 products which will live in the virtual store called of course &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trixbox.org\/BuyersClub\">trixStore<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The Buyer&rsquo;s Club discount also extends to Fonality&rsquo;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/open-source\/trixbox-appliance.html\">trixbox Appliance<\/a> and trixbox technical support packages.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">What do I think? I think all open-source related activity should be free and the store shouldn&rsquo;t charge at all. Yeah right \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The idea is sound and certainly frequent purchasers such as resellers should get a reward for buying more. I wonder if the company will take the next step and start offering gold, platinum and executive platinum levels of this program.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I can see the free upgrades and other offers on their way. Hey&hellip; Whatever works. I fly American Airlines now more than ever because of the status I have achieved with this carrier. I would likely do the same in the world of open-source communications products and services.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines have frequent flyer programs. Hotels have them. Credit cards have them. I am sure you were wondering why the open source communications community to date has not thought to also have a frequent buyer program. C&rsquo;mon. Be honest. I know this is what keeps my readers up at night. \ud83d\ude42 Responding to industry demand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,198,189,118,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}