Re: Marketing CF

2006-12-01 Thread Tim Buntel
Thanks Brad - I think we certainly can do a better job on the CF product page of informing customers that hosting is an option. We do have a page for CF hosting partners (http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/hosting/). Also, have you seen the new Developer Center article on How to select

RE: Marketing CF

2006-12-01 Thread Andy Matthews
x737 --//- -Original Message- From: Tim Buntel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 6:50 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Marketing CF Thanks Brad - I think we certainly can do a better job on the CF product page of informing customers that hosting

Re: Marketing CF

2006-12-01 Thread Greg Luce
I've had more than a handful of friend/clients similar to your friend and I have set up nice sites for them using Joomla CMS. In about 2 hours I can register a domain name, aquire hosting for $5 a month, and configure them a powerful database driven site that they can manage 99% without

RE: Marketing CF

2006-12-01 Thread Brad Wood
. www.coldfusion-hosting-plans.com 3. www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/hosting (ding, ding, ding!) 4. www.onlinecorp.com 5. www.cfm-resources.com -Original Message- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 8:35 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Marketing CF Tim

Marketing CF

2006-11-30 Thread Brad Wood
Sorry this is a bit off topic, but it's been bothering me... pseudo-rant So I was talking to a friend from my church last weekend. He owns an automotive spring shop and is trying to get a website up (products, shopping cart etc..), but all he knows is HTML. His first problem in my

Re: Marketing CF

2006-11-30 Thread Matt Williams
I would agree Brad. Perhaps Adobe's site (at least the CF part) needs to have some separation for What type of potential customer are you? Then a guy like your friend may get channeled into some pages that explain for as littles $x.xx / month you can have a fully dynamic, database driven site for

Re: Marketing CF

2006-11-30 Thread Rick Root
Brad Wood wrote: So, how is it that people search the web and completely miss that fact? He actually thought he was going to have to pay thousands of dollars for ColdFusion server! Not much you can do about that aspect of it. Unlike PHP and ASP/.NET there *IS* a price associated

Re: Marketing CF

2006-11-30 Thread Patrick McElhaney
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Re: Marketing CF

2006-11-30 Thread Will Tomlinson
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