On Wed, 30 May 2001 16:09:43 EDT, Betty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Those 100 people mail out 5,000 e-mails each for a total of 500,000 e-mails. > The 0.2% response to that is 1000 orders for Report # 3. > Those 1000 people send out 5,000 e-mails each for a total of 5 million e-mails > sent out. The 0.2% response to that is 10,000 orders for Report # 4. > Those 10,000 people send out 5,000 e-mails each for a total of 50,000,000 > (50 million) e-mails. The 0.2% response to that is 100,000 orders for Report > # 5 THAT'S 100,000 ORDERS TIMES $5 EACH=$500,000.00 (half million). > Your total income in this example is: 1..... $50 + 2..... $500 + 3..... $5,000 + 4 > .... $50,000 + 5..... $500,000 ........ Grand Total=$555,550.00 > NUMBERS DO NOT LIE. GET A PENCIL & PAPER AND FIGUREOUT > THE WORST POSSIBLE RESPONSES AND NO MATTER HOW YOU > CALCULATE IT, YOU WILL STILL MAKE A LOT OF MONEY ! OK.. Do I calculate return using an exponential curve or the S-shaped logistics curve? It seems that the former is only appropriate if we assume that people will reply to duplicate postings (since the 10,000 people will certainly NOT choose non-overlapping lists of people). Of course, the average net.moron will take the fact that he's gotten 4 or 5 copies as proof that it works, not as proof that it can't work. Also, doing the math for report #6 is.. umm.. painful ;) /Valdis (who had to find *some* way to put an engineering spin on it)
