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- Contact Dealers and Re-Sellers
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- A Dealer is also known as a Retailer or a Re-Seller (Egghead
- Software, ComputerLand, Software City, etc). This is where the
- public will see your software on the shelves. Dealers will also
- advertise your software in their catalogs, mailings, and print ads.
- Many software producers make the mistake of stopping all marketing
- once they have found a distributor. Remember, that your product is
- not the only product that the distributor is carrying.
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- The distributor will let the dealers know that they have your
- product available (this is their idea of marketing), but you must
- let the dealers know how superb that your software is, and why it
- will sell. For this reason, the registered version of ~The
- Software Marketer~ contains a database of over 1400 stores and
- retailers. Many times a retailer does not know that your software
- exist, now they will, and now they will contact your distributor.
-
- ~The Software Marketer~ has included a sample letter, DEALER, that
- can be used as an example. This letter shows how a Retailer or
- Dealer may be contacted.