At the bottom of this question is a list of events aimed at the
telecoms industry. My question is in four parts. Each part is priced
differently:
1. What is the relative profile of each of these events. A rough
tiering will be enough. Possible methodology might be a Google or
Copernic search to see how many references there are to each. $40
2. what events carry the most weight in the industry? A good index of
this might be to see how many newspaper articles are mention them:
this might be suggestive of interviews at the events, announcements
happening at those events, press releases timed to co-incide. Other
methods could include glancing at the website and scoring it for
sophistication, scoring the venue or looking for information about
exhibitors. $40
3. Which of these events are addressed by analysts at leading
"industry analyst" firms. Examples of these firms are Gartner,
Forrester Research, IDC (International Data Corporation), META Group,
Yankee Group, Ovum and Datamonitor. $60
4. Which of these events seems to have the highest number of
exhibitors that are suppliers or vendors of telecoms software,
services and hardware. $60

CMG
Call Center Management Summit
N. American Conference
Call Center Demo & Conference
TechWebâ??s Smart CRM
ICCM Canada
DCI: Building the Customer Centric Enterprise Conference
2005 Outsourcing World Summit
Outsource World (London)
CRM Summit
Offshore Customer Management International Conference
Annual Call Center Exhibition
HRO World Conference & Exposition/Human Resource Outsourcing World
Conference and Exposition
ICCM EAST 2005
ICCM WEST 2005
Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit
Speech Tek
3rd Annual Outsourcing Conference
ATA Convention and EXPO
BrainStormâ??s Nearshore & Offshore Outsourcing Conference East & West
Call Center Exhibition
Communication 2005, CRM Innovations 2005, Outsourcing Strategies
2005, Outsourcing Summit 2005
SSPA Conference
The Hackett Group
The Global Offshore Outsourcing Summit 2005
The 2005 European Outsourcing Event
Conversations 2005
Call Center Expo
IMG
ExpoComm Mexico 2005
CompTel/ASCENT Spring Convention
3GSM, Telexpo/Advanstar 2005
Light Readingâ??s Links 2005 Executive Summit
CTIA
NCTA
IIR
Billing & OSS World
Telemanagement World
SuperComm 2005
Billing and OSS Congress
Futurecom
TELECOM â??05/USTA ANNUAL CONFERENCE & Exhibition
VON
Mobilize 2005

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Clarification of Question by duncanhay-ga on 11 Oct 2004 14:58 PDT

EXPIRY DATE! 12.00 EST October 12.

Sorry. I forgot to add an expiry date. I need this information by noon
Eastern Standard Time on this Tuesday, October 12.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 11 Oct 2004 16:03 PDT

If you're really looking for a half-day turn around on this, you might
want to consider scaling it back (or dividing it up and posting
several discrete questions).

There's an awful lot here to wade through, even at the nice price
you're offering for the work.

Just a thought...

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by duncanhay-ga on 11 Oct 2004 16:10 PDT

Good comments by pafalafa-ga. I will break it up into separate questions.