LoneGunman
Expert Member
(EDIT) 'Mods please delete all offtopic posts in this thread - including my own OT posts 
IBurst have started using their adspend, the campaigns are underway to gather new signups.
This forum is currently the only real gathering point for a collective number of IBurst customers to share their experiences, and also operate as a single 'voting block' of customers.
Regardless of what IBurst intend to put in place as their assorted 'packages' they intend to offer the public, this forum already has a certain consumer power - as it contains a growing collection of IBurst customers online.
In order to increase this power, and - if necessary in the future - force IBurst to provide us with what we, as paying customers want - we need to gather up more of IBursts customers, make them aware of this forum, and increase our numbers accordingly.
This is not suggesting anything negative towards IBurst, its merely the logical next step to ensure that the consumer strength we have, maintains and increases - alongside IBursts own push towards signing up new customers.
It's great that there are individuals from IBurst on this forum, and that they more or less communicate here - but they do not 'represent' the management of Iburst - they are simply individuals who are presenting their own points of view. So whatever the official IBurst Corporate policy is, is unknown and remains totally unrepresented here.
Unity is Strength. And as Sentech have seen to their cost, this Forum is - on occasion - a force to be reckoned with. Not always. But often enough to have made sleepless nights for some Sentech personnel
So now's the time for a conscious push from forumites, to reach out to the public and exploit IBursts own PR campaign, and find methods of attracting the public and the new IBurst sign ups to this forum.
Gather up the newbies and alert them to the existence of this Forum, just so that those new online folks can then discover an alternative source of knowledge and information that is not reliant on the IBurst HelpDesk.
I'm not suggesting that IBurst IS going to be a negative experience, but regardless of how good or bad it might be, we should - as the coolest, grooviest, geekiest and most influential local Forum in SA at the moment - behave accordingly, and prepare quietly to assimilate and get the newbies that IBurst is now targeting, into this Forum.
We're a quiet (and not so quiet) online army of sorts.
Think about this: We cost Sentech untold millions of rands in the last year, by advising companies and people NOT to sign with them.
The press coverage of the negative experiences we were having, further reduced the effectiveness of the millions of rands that Sentech paid out on adverts selling itself.
This forum managed to hurt and dent a large companies profits, quite considerably. We did it. All of us.
That's POWER.
And just because we have power, doesn't mean that we need to USE it. But in this calm before a possible storm - its logical, sensible and advisable to piggyback on IBursts own rising public awareness campaigns, to further OUR own interests. Ne?
So how about reaching out into the public arena, and spreading info on this Forums existence, to increase our ranks?
The more IBurst customers we have on Forum, the more it is likely that IBurst will do what we require (as customers) - or face suffering a financial loss by our actions.
A company with 30 - 60% of its customers all operating in a similar direction, and demanding certain things, has to comply - or face going out of business.
That's consumer activism, unity, and strength. No marches, no need for anything much in the real world - but our combined actions online, can make a dramatic effect on IBursts 'real world' profits and effectiveness.
And naturally, IBurst is hoping that no one stands up and points all of this cool stuff out. Much better we all just selfishly worry about our own individual experiences, and rarely come together to operate as a solid wedge of customers with Demands.
So its graffitti time perhaps. Or if any of you forumites have access to printers - some leaflets or bits of papers with this forum's address on, and a heading like 'Considering Wireless Internet?' will go a long way towards helping the newbies who are getting blitzed with company propaganda left and right.
To take it further - If we can agree on the right periodicals or newspapers to target, I'd be happy to fork out some bucks towards a simple classified ad advising Iburst and Sentech customers of this Forum.
The more new users we gather up, the stronger we become, and better bargaining position we then have with regard to Iburst, Sentech, or whoever the new companies are that are still to come - in the event of these companies not doing what WE want.
What say folks? What say the Mods? I'm happy to fork out a couple of hundred bux and place a classified ad selling this Forum. Who else is keen to find creative, easy and fun ways of increasing our numbers here?
IBurst have started using their adspend, the campaigns are underway to gather new signups.
This forum is currently the only real gathering point for a collective number of IBurst customers to share their experiences, and also operate as a single 'voting block' of customers.
Regardless of what IBurst intend to put in place as their assorted 'packages' they intend to offer the public, this forum already has a certain consumer power - as it contains a growing collection of IBurst customers online.
In order to increase this power, and - if necessary in the future - force IBurst to provide us with what we, as paying customers want - we need to gather up more of IBursts customers, make them aware of this forum, and increase our numbers accordingly.
This is not suggesting anything negative towards IBurst, its merely the logical next step to ensure that the consumer strength we have, maintains and increases - alongside IBursts own push towards signing up new customers.
It's great that there are individuals from IBurst on this forum, and that they more or less communicate here - but they do not 'represent' the management of Iburst - they are simply individuals who are presenting their own points of view. So whatever the official IBurst Corporate policy is, is unknown and remains totally unrepresented here.
Unity is Strength. And as Sentech have seen to their cost, this Forum is - on occasion - a force to be reckoned with. Not always. But often enough to have made sleepless nights for some Sentech personnel
So now's the time for a conscious push from forumites, to reach out to the public and exploit IBursts own PR campaign, and find methods of attracting the public and the new IBurst sign ups to this forum.
Gather up the newbies and alert them to the existence of this Forum, just so that those new online folks can then discover an alternative source of knowledge and information that is not reliant on the IBurst HelpDesk.
I'm not suggesting that IBurst IS going to be a negative experience, but regardless of how good or bad it might be, we should - as the coolest, grooviest, geekiest and most influential local Forum in SA at the moment - behave accordingly, and prepare quietly to assimilate and get the newbies that IBurst is now targeting, into this Forum.
We're a quiet (and not so quiet) online army of sorts.
Think about this: We cost Sentech untold millions of rands in the last year, by advising companies and people NOT to sign with them.
The press coverage of the negative experiences we were having, further reduced the effectiveness of the millions of rands that Sentech paid out on adverts selling itself.
This forum managed to hurt and dent a large companies profits, quite considerably. We did it. All of us.
That's POWER.
And just because we have power, doesn't mean that we need to USE it. But in this calm before a possible storm - its logical, sensible and advisable to piggyback on IBursts own rising public awareness campaigns, to further OUR own interests. Ne?
So how about reaching out into the public arena, and spreading info on this Forums existence, to increase our ranks?
The more IBurst customers we have on Forum, the more it is likely that IBurst will do what we require (as customers) - or face suffering a financial loss by our actions.
A company with 30 - 60% of its customers all operating in a similar direction, and demanding certain things, has to comply - or face going out of business.
That's consumer activism, unity, and strength. No marches, no need for anything much in the real world - but our combined actions online, can make a dramatic effect on IBursts 'real world' profits and effectiveness.
And naturally, IBurst is hoping that no one stands up and points all of this cool stuff out. Much better we all just selfishly worry about our own individual experiences, and rarely come together to operate as a solid wedge of customers with Demands.
So its graffitti time perhaps. Or if any of you forumites have access to printers - some leaflets or bits of papers with this forum's address on, and a heading like 'Considering Wireless Internet?' will go a long way towards helping the newbies who are getting blitzed with company propaganda left and right.
To take it further - If we can agree on the right periodicals or newspapers to target, I'd be happy to fork out some bucks towards a simple classified ad advising Iburst and Sentech customers of this Forum.
The more new users we gather up, the stronger we become, and better bargaining position we then have with regard to Iburst, Sentech, or whoever the new companies are that are still to come - in the event of these companies not doing what WE want.
What say folks? What say the Mods? I'm happy to fork out a couple of hundred bux and place a classified ad selling this Forum. Who else is keen to find creative, easy and fun ways of increasing our numbers here?
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