How about if we look at Cannonical's method of distributing free Cds and also selling them from the same website. It seems sad that they view their free shipit service as a money losing service without their sales point contributing profit to shipit.
The shipit service states that it takes 4-6weeks to deliver and it is a little more difficult to reach on their site. Since costs of buying a batch of Cd are so low i would guess that many people just take the easier, faster route and just buy. In my country we have to pay tax on top of most imported goods over a certain (& very low) value and i have been caught-out by this one time when ordering OpenSource products. The cost to me almost doubled. One problem is that the cost written on the box is the taxable amount so if i order from shipit but make a donation to them then i don't get hit by an excessive tax but if i use their shop i can only order 5 at a time. Of course the cost on the box is nowhere near covers the value of the items to me. If i had to buy an equivalent from MicroSquish then the cost would be about £120 per Cd and i could not afford to pay the tax on that! Not even for 1 Cd. I could buy an official and very smart looking Cd from someone inside this country but their mark-up tends to be quite high. Not as high as taxes tho! If we could organise for our product to be distributed in a variety of ways, particularly by having a distributor in each country and linked to from the other ditribution websites then we mght stand some chance of getting our product out there and hence raise demand. At the moment it seems important to hide our product so that no-one knows about it and no-one wants it and we compound this by being very restrictive on the ways of getting the product. Has anyone in here had any marketing training or any experience? I was hoping to learn a lot by joining this list but instead i seem to 'have to' continually point out some very very basic stuff. I had a similar experience with Wolvix http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=wolvix and they were extremely resist to the basic stuff. Despite them, by ignoring them and getting the word out there along with a few others in their community we got them from 97th on the DW site to 9th!! However we were given so much agro by the top people that a few of us just left and now they have dropped of the bottom of the top 100. Please can we try to get our product out there and known about and talked about? Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Dave Johnson <[email protected]> To: Charles-H. Schulz <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Wed, 29 December, 2010 13:38:58 Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: I'm back in the game. Thank you. I will endever to only do good for the TDF and LibO. I pledge to all of you that I will do no harm to either. Dave Johnson On Dec 29, 2010 6:39 AM, "Charles-H. Schulz" < [email protected]> wrote: Dave, I'm sorry if my words came out harshly. It was not meant to discourage you; the thing is that we have to face more and more situations where people are taking advantage of our names and trademarks. Here's what I would like to propose to you: let's set up an initiative somewhere on our wiki and perhaps draw inspiration from the Distribution project of OpenOffice.org: http://distribution.openoffice.org/ It might not include P2P or distribution over a network but it still has some good ideas that I find very practical. What do you think? Charles. Le Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:26:23 -0600, Dave Johnson <[email protected]> a écrit : > I'm not going to let a little negative talk dissuade me from > fulfilling a need. I see a need in... -- Charles-H. Schulz Membre du Comité exécutif The Document Foundation. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
