On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 21:55 +0000, Daniel Carrera wrote: > that correcting people is a great marketing technique.
Marketing depends on the audience and the circumstances. You can't take a mechanism out of context and say anything about whether it will be an effective marketing technique or not. I would say that one of the probelems with a text based marketing list is that it is a poor medium for getting people to understand marketing and can just as easily reinforce poor practice. "It ain't what you say its the way that you say it, that's what get's results." Or more the way that you say it in the context you say it. > Correcting people to say .org is not good marketing, it's annoying. It annoys you perhaps, but don't make the mistake that because something doesn't fit your personal preferences that it can't be effective. You probably wouldn't like unsolicited sales calls but if they were not effective in selling products companies wouldn't use them. They might even annoy most people but its still effective. Personally I am annoyed by that Intel jingle aand that Crazy Frog ring tone but they are both effective marketing hooks. > And > by definition, it only targets people who already know about the > software and made it as far as joining this list. Not exactly the people > you market to That depends on who is saying it and to what audience. Back to making progress then. Instead of finding all the reasons why .org is bad, provide a solution to the issue. What is the proposed action? We can't just go to OpenOffice because someone else owns the name and we have no money to buy it. If I did have the money to buy it I would say that money would be better spent on advertising or development as .org really is a very minor issue. So what othername would you choose that was better? -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
