On Thursday, December 23, 2004 at 8:58:19 PM [GMT -0500], Thomas Fernandez wrote:
> It's a marketing technique. If you get "invited" by a friend, you
> are more likely to subscribe and use that service than if they
> openend it for free registration on their website. You trust your
> friend, so you implicitely trust the product, and since it is not
> open but you need an invite, you feel like a member of an exclusive
> club. You also use the new email address with pride (so it's not
> like with many Yahoo addresses that never get used), and you
> actively invite other people thus pushing the product further. Gmail
> doesn't need to advertise, you do it all for them.
Hmmm. You seem to be unto something there. I can certainly see that
working very well as it seems to have.
There's this rave about searching mail. I spend most of my time
reading mail and not really searching for mail. Furthermore, most of
my searches are done with TB!'s or ThunderBirds similar type quick
search function.
Anyway, YMMV, so who am I to say?
--
Cheers,
-= Allie =-
..... Useless Invention: Air-Bag for a motorcycle.
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