#: 69756 S20/Marketing OS/2 Apps
    30-Dec-95  13:49:20
Sb: #May I join a little
Fm: Charles Stirling 100010,1433
To: Esther Schindler 72241,1417 (X)

Hi,

I have tried just lurking here but had to put my 2 cents worth in, hope it is
ok.  I am not a developer, programmer or have anything actually to do with
computers other than use them (OK, have written a bit).

My business is in hand woodworking tools - I sell used and antique tools and
also make or commission new ones.  This is a small business, sort of 2 1/2
people, rather specialized.  I have a shop here in England and also sell mail
order over a good part of the world (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
Germany, France, and others).  This has involved a lot of marketing and
getting known on a very limited budget, but in the woodworking world we have
got probably better known than any other small business.

I have been using OS/2 since shortly after release 2.0 as my main OS, have Win
3.1 on another machine and now have my son using Warp at home and wife uses a
Mac.  Started with computers with a Tecktronix 4051 in postgrad research.

My interest here is basicly to see more applications for OS/2 and more do well
so I can use them.  Also find a lot of parralls between marketing these
applications and my marketing woodworking tools - both specialized, yet mass
market as well (even more hammers in use than commputers <g>, but the cabinet
makers planes we make may only sell 30 per year).

Charles Stirling Bristol Design, Bristol, England

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#: 69768 S20/Marketing OS/2 Apps
    30-Dec-95  19:09:00
Sb: #69756-May I join a little
Fm: Esther Schindler [EXEC] 72241,1417
To: Charles Stirling 100010,1433

Hey, I didn't know that was what you did in "real life"! Cool! I've probably
seen some of your tools; a good friend of ours (and our first client) built
and sold hammered dulcimers, so I've become more woodworking-aware than I
would ever have expected to be. I can even tell the difference between curly
maple and purpleheart, without cheating. <grin>

Glad to have you here, in any case!

--Esther