Marketing key to success for everything? Well, I agree marketing helps in most situations and for most products--but it doesn't always have to be the case.
Take a look at Wikipedia's success; there were no big bucks spent on advertising it. Take a look at that United Breaks Guitars song on YouTube, and then take a look at the one United made as a response. The second one was not free and had a well known artist. On Jan 22, 2010, at 2:39, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Eric Nicholas Sweeney > <n...@bigfatdesigns.com> wrote: >> Maybe it's my marketing background, but that story just doesn't >> hold up. The >> success rate of anything based on that sort of fairytale/whimsical/ >> lucky >> business plan is extremely low. I am sure you can all point to one >> or two >> that break through that boundary - but not thousands. > > Well, we're talking about programming languages and most of them > succeed because of community momentum, not because of "ACME Inc." > marketing them... > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > Railo Technologies US -- http://getrailo.com/ > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:330009 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
