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- From: dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett)
- Subject: Re: Atari marketing & the Falcon
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.162344.27275@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:23:44 GMT
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- In article <92355@bu.edu> selick@csa.bu.edu (Steven Selick) writes:
- >Why don't we all pool our money and get, say, $15,000 and give it to
- >Atari to take out an ad in TIME, or Business Week, or something like
- >that? Maybe that would get the ball rolling? We have to be
- >innovative...we own Atari's!
-
- I don't think $15,000 would be nearly enough for an ad in Time, but I
- could be wrong. That seems like a low figure for a magazine with such
- a huge readership. Anyway, what they need is a few billion to buy ads
- during the Super Bowl. Atari might be able to revive themselves with
- McDonalds' advertising budget.
-
- Dave Baggett
- dmb@wam.umd.edu
-