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- On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Paul Chan wrote:
-
- > Getting new users:
- >
- > 1) Advertise in the press (video mags, computer mags, TV, etc)
- > 2) When the buyers come into the shop, make sure that the sale srep doesn`t say
- > the Amiga is CRAP and please look at this nice PC instead.
-
- Thats a bit outside Amiga Technologies control, except maybe at Escom
- shops. If the salesman is paid commission then of course hes going to
- recommend a higher priced higher spec PC rather than a 1200. (The answer
- of course it to run courses for the sales people and show 'em how good
- the amiga is, and also how to use it.
-
- > 3) Don`t call it an Amiga. A lot of UK computing folks still associate the
- > Amiga with the A500. It`s a bad association and should be eliminated by making
- > the Amiga name a smaller part of a new name that "really rocks". In other
- > words, make sure that the new netsurfing box has a cool name other than Amiga.
-
- IN terms of 'new' users, more of them would not have heard of Amiga at all,
- than would have a negative image of the brand name.
-
- > No. The right price is under 299, or it`ll never become a mass market product,
- > and Saturn, Philips, Oracle, et al will start to take over with their high
- > price marketing campaigns.
-
- I do wish people would give an indication of which currency they are
- talking about - this is an international forum. (And we haven't got a
- single worldwide currency (yet)). I guess you're refering to UK# here.
-
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