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- From: larry@lablues.UUCP (Lawrance A. Schneider)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: about my survey - 2
- Message-ID: <BmkeuB5w165w@lablues.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 16:38:10 EST
- Organization: L/A Blues BBS - Auburn ME (207) 777-3465 & 7782
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- When I posted my survey about Apple and its computers, a number of
- people (MANY) asked that I give them the results. DONE SO HERE BY!
-
-
- So what?!?!?!?!?!?! The point of this paper is to find out if there
- is a "so what" in a marketing sense.
-
- So I start with a few premises:
-
- A) Apple Computer Inc. has "done to the Apple II."
-
- B) A "standard" in selling is that if one customer has a bad
- experience, 250 people will hear about the problem.
-
- C) Another "standard" is that it takes five times more effort to sell
- to a new customer than to sell to a customer to whom you have already
- sold.
-
- D) The Apple II started in 1977 is sold still in 1992; The Apple II
- computer has a loyal following.
-
- From Apple Computer Inc. I was given the following information:
-
- |I can give you the following:
- |
- |-between 5.5 million and 6 million Apple IIs sold WW
- |-about 1 million Apple IIc's sold WW
- |-estimate about 2.9 million active Apple IIs in schools
- |-about 70% of all Apple IIs were sold to schools
- |
- |That's about all I have since historical sales records are
- |non-existent
-
-
- With the above in mind, I made the following survey. The survey was
- placed on a number of national bulletin boards (internet and Fido
- net), a local bulletin board and given to my local user group. I made
- a similar survey for Macintosh owners and place it on the Fido
- network; however, I did not receive enough replies to make any
- conclusions from the Mac survey; my local board has had trouble
- connecting to the distribution node for Fido. I had one person
- complain that the survey was biased.
-
- more in the next post
-