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- On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Manuel Coats wrote:
- >
- > > I agree that NewTek needs something similiar to Autodesk's Multimedia
- > > Catalog, but I figure they are lacking the resources to make it happen.
- > >
- > > The only way that I am aware of to reach all the registered users of
- > > NewTek products is thru Avid Media Group (AMG). They have a deal where
- > > you can mail out literature thru a combined mailing list of all
- > > subscribers to Video Toaster User & LightwavePro along with all registered
- > > users of NewTek products. For current advertisers, I believe the rate is
- > > $100.00 per 1,000 names. Last year I was told there was around 40,000
- > > names on file. You can also use subsets like names filed within the last 2
- > > years for example. The downside to this is that your material is sent thru
- > > a 3rd party, so you do not actually buy a list of names that you could use
- > > again.
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- >And then you have to factor in the cost of shipping which they charge you. By
- >the time you're done, you can be looking at over $10,000 just to do a
- >mailing. A lot of plug-in developers just don't have the funds for this.
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- Perhaps NewTek or someone else with substantial web resources could make
- arrangements for cheap or free webspace for lw plug-ins and related
- products along the lines of what Softwood has done in providing the
- 'Amiga Mall'.
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- It would seem very advantageous in many ways for NT to do this, providing
- one central repository for the LW 'family' of developers.
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- Steve Bowie ad636@torfree.net
- North York, Ontario, Canada
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