On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 06:13:26PM +0200, Matthias Mann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Matthias Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 9:34 AM > Subject: Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA > > Huui! This discussion becomes a content that now has nothing to du with > Debian knowledge. Thanx to all meanings. I think i should find another way > to contact my intendet customers in future. > > Dear Henrique! > > I thank you for your detailed information about the risks of spamming. > I don´t beleve that anyone would kill me if i begin with spamming. > There are so much spammers. Who will all them find? > > That spamming is not very liked by much people is a part of my > project, that i had not considered. I have seen it now on the > reactions of newsgroup members. And it seems to be good, that you > wrote me your warning. > > My experience with buisnes in web is not very big. Do you have some > idears what i can do to reach more hundreds of people per day over the > internet, whithout paying more than the online time? It is very > important for me to reach very much people, cause i like to sell > immovables. They will surely not so easy to sell like bread or books. > And my budget is very small, so it is not possible for me, to pay for > a big publicity campaign.
For starters, a web presence, and a few happy customers can do wonders. If you've followed the business press over the past year, you may find that a large marketing budget and professional staff don't promise success and riches in online marketing either. There's a concept called "viral marketing" which you may want to look at. It was most classically practiced by Hotmail, an on-line free email service (ironically enough, based on advertising to members and their email recipients). Basically, each email had at the bottom a line saying "Get your free web-based email through Hotmail: http://www.hotmail.com/."; In the first *days* of operation, without any advertising, the site picked up thousands of users. It was later bought by Microsoft for several hundred million dollars. Go figure. Other acts -- I include my company's name and website in my sig line -- which appears in a number of email lists, newsgroups, and web discussion boards. I have tracked a significant amount of traffic from sites I've posted my sig to. Look also at Debian. It's a non-business business, but one of the most successful GNU/Linux distributions based on no marketing, no budget, and a minimum of formal organization. Kuro5hin is another example -- it's a discussion weblog that's been active for ten months and now has 8,000 registered users and about 60,000 hits daily. No marketing budget, just word-of-mouth and a good product. There's a saying: you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Make people *want* your product, not hate you. I'd be interested in hearing more about your product and what you are planning to sell, I might even be able to help you through OpenSales, our products, and expertise. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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