Did you like that, I love a good discussion. On 8/24/05, Richard jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel, > Cheers mate, what you say is quite right; selling it for USD $5 was a > smart move it would weed out those that, just take things offered for > free, the difference here or there sorry was that Ian also told those > that purchased the product as well as those that did not, that it > could if wished be downloaded from the internet and where to get it > from on the internet, so as my point stills stands, He was giving it > for free Albeit it was a FEE was still free for those not wishing to > pay for CD version. > So my point was "It is rude to sell something given to you freely" I > would add here for the nit pickers 'If you are selling the version on > the CD as long as you are making it aware to the purchaser that he or > she could get it for free IF they sat at thier 56Kb modem computer for > 6 to 10 hours downloading it" > You know no wonder laywers make millions of bucks, they have to sit > down and write out these really complicated mumbo-jumbo for guys that > can't take a statement at face value. It took time to burn the CD and > package it so of course sir it is not rude to sell it. > > > On 8/24/05, Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 10:44 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > > > > Oh, here's another example. Ian went to a conference a month ago. The > > > largest education conference in the world, in Los Angeles. These are > > > people who had never heard of OOo. Ian figured that if he gave out the > > > CDs for free, a lot of people would grab it just because it's free and > > > then just throw them on the garbage bin. This would be expensive, > > > > and bad for the environment! > > > > > and it > > > wouldn't give us an indication of how much real interest there was. > > > > Actually we started at $10 and explained why we were charging giving the > > option to just take the URL for free on a bit of paper. Most people just > > took the URL but about 30 paid $10. When we reduced the price to $1 > > almost everyone took a disk if they were interested. We didn't have time > > to test every price point but I guess the optimum is between $1 and $5 > > > > Probably not enough to quite cover costs :-( Except I got a govenment > > grant to be there :-) But I guess if you take into account my time and > > Adam's so its still a loss :-( > > > > So if we were to sustain a break even marketing effort at major > > conferences we need something other than just selling disks although > > that can make a significant contribution. Selling merchandise would be > > one possibility and also the booth was a joint OOo/INGOT booth so that > > means if INGOTs is profitable it can support OOo at conferences because > > they target similar markets and are complementary. > > > > Maybe this should be on the marketing list ;-) > > > > -- > > Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ZMSL > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > Mr. Richard Jenkins. > You get to choose, kindness; So choose, don't > just sit there thinking about it. >
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