On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 15:19 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> Hi Graham,
> 
> thanks for your post, I've included your suggestions into the Wiki on
> 
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/MarketingCampaign_Q3-2007
> 
> Just some short comments:
> 
> > T-shirts and thumbdrives are expensive and restrictive.  Remember we are 
> > trying to touch millions, expensive items restrict.  Also that sort of 
> > thing 
> > has to be managed, storing the stuff, managing inventory.  That in itself 
> > turns into a cost.  I strongly advise against hard marketing materials.  Do 
> > that sort of thing at local level with material created centrally through 
> > the 
> > Art project. (Heh, and that is saying something seeing as how I sell that 
> > sort of stuff on ooogear.co.nz)  If Local people can download flyers and 
> > posters print them locally and distribute them that would be far better.
> 
> I only can talk from a view of the Germanophone project, but USB drives 
> are one of our most important marketing instruments out there. They are 
> really a go!
> 
> > Google ads are good for several reasons
> > We only pay for click through
> > We can manage the process to suit the budget 
> > We will get some useful statistics
> 
> IIRC, we had Google ads in the past, so we maybe should choose something 
> else this time.

Did they work? If they did use them again, if they didn't try something
else. I do think Google ads have a key advantage. At least you can track
how many people visit the web site as a result of using them so unlike a
lot of ads you have a metric for measuring cost-effectiveness.

Ian
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