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- From: todd@toolz.uucp (Todd Merriman)
- Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
- Subject: Re: MAG Ad's
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.000534.14473@toolz.uucp>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 00:05:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: toolz.1992Sep15.000534.14473
- References: <1992Sep11.201939.12955@mks.com>
- Organization: Software Toolz, Inc.
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- steveg@mks.com (Steve Gingerich) writes:
- >I'm kind of curious as to what degree of success people have had
- >advertising in consumer magazines (eg. popular science, byte etc.).
-
- I have advertised a multi-platform software development tool that
- includes a free demo. I advertised in several magazines, and here are
- my results:
-
- DEC Professional 1/9 pg. display ad - $650/per
- VERY expensive, low response, poor sales
-
- Dr. Dobb's Journal 1/12 pg. "Marketplace" display ad - $440/per
- Rather expensive, very poor response, poor sales
-
- Computer Language 60 word classified ad - $210/per
- Moderate price, good response, mediocre sales
-
- C Users Journal 1/9 pg. display ad - $225/per
- Moderate price, good response, good sales
-
- Programmer's Journal 1/9 pg. display ad - $125/per
- Moderate price, good response, poor sales
-
- C Gazzette 1/9 pg. display ad - $110/per
- Moderate price, low response, low sales
-
- The response rate is measured by dividing the number of leads generated
- by the magazine circulation.
-
- I also received a substantial number of leads from mentions in
- "New Products" columns: Software News, Digital Review, Dr. Dobb's,
- Midnight Engineering, Tech Specialist, Unix Today, Unix World,
- Databased Advisor, and Uniforum Newsletter. I didn't have to pay
- anything for these leads!
-
- If you want a mail-merge list of computer magazines to which you can
- send your press releases, let me know. Quite a few subscribers to
- my Software Entrepreneur's Mailing List have had good success with the
- list.
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