The first thing
to do is decide what part of VOIP marketplace you want to serve.
Here are some
possibilities:
- VOIP Provider services
- VOIP consulting
- Independent
Sales/Service Agent for existing VOIP service providers
- Value Added services
with VoIP
- etc.
Some general
suggestions:
- Pick
an area that plays to your strengths. For example, if your strength is
sales and marketing, pick an area where you can leverage those abilities
- Learn
all you can about the maketplace
- Attend industry tradeshows
- Read industry magazines, blogs, forums, etc
- Read books
- Do
market research - talk to your potential customers
- Ask
questions
- Tradeshow exhibits usually
have knowledgable people available ready to answer questions
- Many websites (like
this one) let you ask questions
- Test
the waters — to the extent possible try before you buy, test the waters
before making large commitments of time or money
Value Added
services
If you have experience with VoIP or already in VoIP business,
you can get benefit / new customers by introducing some value added services on
VoIP. Few value added services are mentioned in following, Within each service
there are many choices.
- PBX
sales and service
- Hosted
PBX
- Virtual
Numbers
- Hosted
IVR / Auto attendants
- etc
- Message
broadcasting / Call Center Solutions
- Voice
broadcasting / Auto dialer
- here is a guide about starting new
business for “We provide complete solution to launch VoIP”
- Appointment
remainders, Emergency alert
- Fax
broadcasting
- Call
Centers
- etc
- Prepaid
Cards
- Retail
prepaid cards from existing wholesale providers
- Start
your own brand of prepaid cards using services from existing wholesale
providers
- Start
a new prepaid card provider company
- Create
new software package for prepaid card services
- Create
a Free Phone Booth
- etc.
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