On 14 June 2016 at 09:16, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: >> >> > That color combination has been very widely copied, even today. >> >> I think the amount of copying ought to be seen as a metrics of success >> for a brand. > > Sure, except it dilutes the brand.
I am asserting that this dilution is a positive outcome - in the age of cheap social media and memes, brands don't have control as they did in the age of expensive mass media; and per the medium is the message and all that, the new media environment changes the value of the outcomes. A brand that is not being diluted is stale, rigid, dying. >> > which is why I invested in the SL branded memory sticks > > At the time everyone clamored for several, to be > distributed at conferences and such. How much did you/we sell them for? > This was over six years ago, so I probably wouldn't recommend the same > supplier, better to start from scratch, especially since the payment to them > was delayed at the time - if they remember our small order, it may not be > fondly. The key criteria in my choice was that they were willing to do > several color variants in the tiny run of 100 sticks, as a favor if we would > bring subsequent business, Cool :) > which in the end didn't happen. Yikes - why not? >> > and had the beauty shots created at the time. >> >> Where are these located? :) > > wiki > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Booth_Banners > > see for example: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8117064.stm Nice!! _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep