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- From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Hunk)
- Subject: Super fast and inexpensive marketing
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.012330.29463@uwm.edu>
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- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 01:23:30 GMT
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- If I have a software product that expands on a smaller version which had a
- proven track record of popularity in the public domain, would it then make
- sense to start marketing the larger package by a direct mail campaign?
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- For example, I can get a list of (say 1-5 hundred) addresses together, write
- up an ad/order form, and send out the letters, get a few orders, sell, turn back
- some of the profit into a larger batch of letters in the next round, etc.
-
- It seems if the product really IS popular, I should be able to generate
- progressively larger batchs of letters on each subsequent round and bootstrap
- myself into a profitable self-supporting business after 3 or 4 rounds, with
- very little (< $250) initial capital on round 1.
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