Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!wuarchive!swbatl!ammrk From: ammrk@swbatl.sbc.com (Mike R. Kraml) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Student Reps for Commodore Message-ID: <1539@swbatl.sbc.com> Date: 4 Jun 90 20:36:26 GMT References: <2970@crash.cts.com> Reply-To: ammrk@swbatl.UUCP (Mike R. Kraml) Organization: Southwestern Bell Tele. Co. - Advanced Technology Lab - St. Louis Lines: 35 In article mofo@bucsf.bu.edu (jason greene) writes: >I currently attend Boston University and am active in the Amiga user group >here. There are roughly 10,000 undergraduates here, and about 35,000 >students all totalled. The school of Communications, considered one of the >top programs in broadcasting in the world, operates many amiga 2000's. > >these 2000's were purchased on the school of Communication's own volition, >not by shrewd marketing by C-A. > >What I would like to know is, a school this size, with its marketability, >why doesn't C-A show even any interest in having anybody speak to this >school about amigas? > >IE, should _I_ contact them and inform them of this market, or what? Well, not really, what I think you should do is contact your local Amiga dealer and make him aware of the excellent opportunity he or she is missing out on. If you don't have a local dealer, I guess your stuck with CBM. If you do decide you want to invest some of your time and efforts, go ahead and give CBM a call. I know this sounds like an excuse, but unfortunatly, CBM is just not yet up to speed on this educational thing yet (I know, marketing in general), and could perhaps use the kick in rear, but from what I gathered at our last usersgroup meeting (with a live CBM rep), they really do want to penetrate the educational market, but they really need to come up to speed on this "new" (to them anyway) type of marketing first. Looks like they are going in the right direction guys, and if we can give them a hand, it may pay off. Remember what Cooperman did for Apple and the educational market, well, it could happen for the Amiga too. See ya, Mike... -- ============================================================================= Mike Kraml - Manager-Separations MECHANIZATION - SWBT - (The Techies) UUCP: {uunet, bellcore, texbell}...!swbatl.sbc.com!ammrk =============================================================================