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From: "Rich Mellor" <r...@rwapservices.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 2:26 PM
To: <ql-us...@q-v-d.com>
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] The QL Future
Hmm - I have 523 on my list in the UK (all with email addresses)
Rich has told us he has a list of 523 UK QL-ers and we also know how many UK
Quanta members and how many UK QL Today readers there are. A little bit of
arithmetic suggests the UK community is very different from how we envisage
it.
Suppose we took Rich's list and removed from it all the Quanta members. We
then went through it a second time and removed all the remaining QL Today
readers. Finally we go through it a third time removing all the remaining
subscribers to this list. After these three operations we have removed far
less than half of the names on this list.
In other words if we divided the UK QL community into two groups that we
could call the "organised group" and the "non-organised group", the
non-organised group would be the larger of the two. It sounds almost
unbelievable but the majority of UK QL-ers have no need for Quanta, QL Today
or this list.
In the organised group we have very little knowledge of the people in the
non-organised group and little desire to learn about them. There is a large
part of the QL universe that is ripe for exploration.
Now three questions to think about:
1: Suppose someone from the non-organised group visited two QL websites -
Dilwyn's and Quanta's. To which of the two websites would he be the more
likely to return and why?
2: A couple of years ago two UK traders ceased active trading after making a
loss for several years. A third trader remained and is running a successful
QL/retro business. Over a 2 year period he also provided Quanta with a
quarter of its income by trading on their behalf. How has he achieved this?
3: Quanta's recent survey was publicised by Quanta itself; on this list; in
the news columns of QL Today; and to all people on Rich's list. Which of
these four would provide the largest potential number of respondents?
Maybe we in the organised group need a Galileo moment,
Best Wishes,
Geoff
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