Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!olivea!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A3000UX info in newest BYTE Message-ID: <1990Nov28.235151.29471@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 28 Nov 90 23:51:51 GMT References: <1990Nov26.161956.7275@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <16099@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 25 diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing) writes: >An official annoucement on the net??? Heavens, I certainly hope so. At a conference, you spend tens of thousands of dollars, disrupt lots of people's work schedules to man the booths, and, if you're lucky, you see 1000 bored people a day break stride passing your booth, and get to spend perhaps five minutes apiece with them while they dance from foot with eagerness not to miss a single booth. If you really luck out, you get some trade press reporter to misinterpret everything you say into some mishmash 60 word "also seen" note in a magazine. Here, you get more than 50,000 avidly interested readers, who can ask you questions about your announcement and discuss it and build up enthusiasm among themselves for weeks, for the cost of typing in a couple hundred word flyer. Looks more cost effective to me. Kent, the man from xanth. -- Yes, I speak from experience as both a conference organizer (NCGA #1) and vendor booth-person (Vector Automation).