Hi Drew, Drew Jensen wrote: > Hello folks, > > This is rather a continuation of the Query emails I sent a few days back. > > Looking over the responses prompts me to ask this - > > If most of my commerce will involve commercial software users shouldn't > I really expect to expend more effort/money reaching out to commercial > software users versys FOSS users - shouldn't I? > > Let's take as a given: > Reading/posting to OO.o only mailing lists, forums, blogs. In other > words generally active in the extended OO.o community. > Participation within a broader selection of FOSS projects. Those > projects which I would expect to also use in offer ing services.
I'm not sure I get you here. Do you mean you should think also to market propretary software users to extend your commercial base? > > OK - but I'm thinking at this moment of the question - Is that alone > going to get me to the largest numbers of perspective clients? > > Leading back to my first question then - Where should I be putting my > personal capital of time and money to reach those individuals/firms > looking to engage someone doing my type of business? (Type of business: > Support in conversting from MSO to OO.o - Custom development of office > automation processes for SOHO/SMB.) > > I have a few ideas on this, but before putting mine up could I ask what > others think about this. > 1) Am I thinking clearly here, or am I just 'wrong headed'. > 2) What channels are people looking towards to get out the message - to > the commercial software user world? I'm not enough involved in the commercial part to answer, but I think in some way, you can't ignore the commercial software user world. Kind regards Sophie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
