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From: swarren@eugene.uucp (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dealer location hotline (Was: Amiga Ads)
Message-ID: <2753@convex.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 89 00:05:17 GMT
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In article <75.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin) writes:
>Well, I haven't gotten anything in the mail yet, but I did receive a phone
>call yesterday from the closest dealer.  It went something along the lines
>of:
>  "Hi, this is Rudy from The Computer Room in Scotts Valley.  You called
>   Commodore about the Amiga computer.  Would you like to come in for a
>   demo?"
>  "Hi, Rudy... I've been in there before, you should remember me.  I already
>   have an Amiga; I really only called the hotline to check up on how well
>   Commodore was doing it.  They seem to be doing it very well."
>  "Oh"
>
>If they're really generating a demo/sales call from every hotline call, this
>whole thing could REALLY work well.

That is good to hear.  But don't everyone go out and call the hotline unless
you really want info on the product.  My Dad was in sales, and he had to
*buy* "hot leads" like this (it's only fair, that way the beneficiary gets
to share in the expense of collecting the lead).

I don't know how Commodore runs their lead program, but if they do it like
most sales organizations your bogus call will cost a dealer 5 or 10 dollars.
That could disillusion a lot of dealers.

--Steve
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