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PAID ADVERTISING
SPECIAL DISCOUNTS FOR SHAREWARE AUTHORS AND COMPUTER CLUBS!
WE ALSO ACCEPT ADVERTISING FROM COMMERCIAL VENDORS!
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Why advertising in SMS? Just like a magazine: to keep costs of a
good publication low for the final subscribers and users! This
shareware program will be seen by THOUSANDS of authors and
distributors. It is a listed file in the Compuserve Databased
Advisor forum (GO DBA), file of the month, PC-SIG file, Public
Brand file, New England Software Library file. It is mailed to
many distributors, shareware authors and subscribers quarterly.
It is available on many BBS systems throughout America. It is
uniquely suited to your advertising in a specialized software
market!
Who should advertise? Shareware distributors with a message.
Change of address, new phone lines, new author BBS submission
systems. Requests to make registered copies available. Requests
for unique shareware programs which do not exist. New in
business of distribution and want to stand out from the crowd.
Unique specialization (games, bible, graphics, etc). Going out
of business (stop sending those files!) Can do disk duping
cheaply for authors. Can do direct mail marketing for authors.
Want to buy registered customer mailing lists from authors. New
author incentive programs. Request for author addresses. Trying
to find someone to help review disks for your printed catalog!
Who should advertise? Computer clubs with a message.
Want to build up or discontinue library. Want specialized
software (wordperfect SIG wants lotsa macros! CAD SIG looking
for super shareware package of drafting symbols) New club
building membership. Unique club overseas with international
address. Shareware librarian looking for someone to catalog
those thousands of files (who better than a shareware author?)
Club wanting to STOP shareware submissions (don't have a library
and going nuts trying to figure out what to do with all the
disks coming in the mail.) Club with restrictions (only want
files on high density disks.) Change of officers (stop sending
disks to Jane Doe who left 4 years ago! New shareware librarian
is John Smith)
Who should advertise? Shareware authors with a message.
New program or version announcement. Unique program directed at
other shareware authors as a vertical market. Trying to put
together group of shareware authors for a large special project.
Trying to stand out from crowd with announcement which other
distributors and clubs will see in addition to your main mailing
of disks. Urgent virus warning. Have large mailing list of
customers to sell to shareware distributors. Looking for job in
software industry (print my resume verbatim!) Want temporary job
on call to do programming, data entry, telephone marketing, or
other job you can do out of your home with a phone, modem, FAX
or Federal Express connection.
Who should advertise? Equipment manufacturers, magazines,
commercial banks employment agencies seeking programmers or
temporary help with computer intensive projects. Software houses
needing a temporary programmer on call by FAX, modem or Federal
Express!
Selling equipment directed to shareware market. Computers, disk
duping machines, documentation printing shops, shrink wrappers,
label making hardware and software, accounting packages, direct
mail marketing systems, magazine which has small classified ads
in back which shareware authors could use, banks which would
like to open visa card accounts for budding shareware authors or
allow shareware authors to take visa card numbers from customers
(open a vendor account relationship.) Hardware vendors wishing
to sell specialized cards for PC's. Mail order modem vendors.
commercial software companies selling C libraries, clipper
libraries, custom compilers which shareware programmers might
appreciate.
Small business looking for a programmer to revise accounting
system or CAD system. Business looking for someone to do data
entry and have results modem shipped to company. Employment
agency seeking programmers typists, accountants or others with a
computer literate background. (shareware authors make great
temporary employees - why not hire a productive and affordable
shareware author who lives 1,000 miles away when his/her work
can be shipped to your client by modem, FAX or Federal express?)
(P.S. - the author of this package maintains files with mailing
addresses and phone numbers of shareware authors and the types
of software they program!)
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ADVERTISING RATE CARD/COST OF ADVERTISING IN THIS PUBLICATION
SPECIAL DISCOUNTS FOR SHAREWARE AUTHORS AND COMPUTER CLUBS!
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You may submit either a single ASCII text screen or a small COM
or EXE program which displays an animated/color message.
Consider carefully computers which may not have color graphics
cards and allow for both monochrome and color selecting within
your program if using a COM or EXE file.
Commercial vendor/general public
(Shareware distributor, commercial vendors, general public)
---> One full screen, ASCII monochrome text file
$150 per quarterly issue, $550 per year
---> Small COM or EXE program (20K in size or less)
$300 per quarterly issue, $1,100 per year
DISCOUNTS:
Computer club: Use 25% discount on above rates
Shareware author: Use 35% discount on above rates