[nassirkhan]

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I might have to disagree on majority of the points you brought up but I appreciate the point of view.

For b], the emphasis is on helping SMEs deploy solutions that are opensource for their current operations, and provide them with ap-ops, tech-ops and general ops labor. I am not thinking of building out new opensource inititatives.

For c] you are completely off point. We are not targeting gamer sor creating a spam system, rather, I would be trying to create a system for lead capture and CCA optimization.

thanks though

[orionblastar]

b) SMEs don't always have the budget and usually purchase COTS Commercial off The Shelf products like Microsoft Office and build things on Excel and Sharepoint and other apps. I learned this the hard way trying to target SME law firms for legal practice management software. You'd have to convince them that using open source products and paying your company to manage and develop them for them is the better deal even if it does cost them more money in the long run. You'd also have to convince them that your company can do it better than their own people using the same free open source projects.

c) Lead capture still requires getting the link to your lead capture page out there. If you are posting it to social networks, some might see it as spam.