On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? Marketing. Yes. One thing I might observe is that this thread (and related threads on the CD topic) are really about sales, not marketing. Cheers, jec > 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]<marketing%[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]<marketing%[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 ***
