Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!emory!gatech!rutgers!cbmvax!diamond From: diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore Representative.. Message-ID: <16675@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 19 Dec 90 16:55:04 GMT References: <39483@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1990Dec19.053358.10320@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Reply-To: diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 51 In article <1990Dec19.053358.10320@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >In article <39483@nigel.ee.udel.edu> JK829055@pucal.bitnet (Jim Karczewski, Programmer -- TTR Development, Inc.) writes: >> >> I Called Commodore today, here in Chicago and talked with the >>Sales manager about becoming a Student Representative here at my School.. >>He said, " It is not in our budget for your school, we are trying to go >>with schools that are larger, liker the the ones in the BIG 10" Now I >>go to Purdue University Calumet, And we have 8,000 Students here, Plus I make >>trips at LEAST once A Week down to Lafayette where Pudue's Main Campus Is, I >>could also Do demos and stuff like that down there.. It dfoesn't make sense >>that commodore would even pass up a school... Even if it is 8,000 Stuents, I KNO >> W >>I could sell a Large amount of systems up here.. People are getting sick of thes >> er >>IBM's Up here.. > > Jim, I'm one of the ASOCCs. (at Columbia U.) I have some >suggestions. Here is what happened with me. After I got to >columbia last year I put up posters at the lobby of each of the >dorms. I got about 15 responses. By the end of the first semester >I/we had a users group going. > I got in contact with the education department at >Commodore and eventually (after several months) got in touch with >the regional people. As Commodore's educational program grew and >our presence on campus increased, Commodore eventually chose >Columbia for the ASOCC program. It wasn't for one year after the >group first got organized that it happened. > So my advice? Don't rush things. Get organized on campus. >Poster the campus and try to find out who already owns. I didn't >expect to get as many people as I did. After you get followers, >find out who the best local dealer is, preferably one who'll help >out for things. Then, contact Commodore and try to get a >demonstration on campus. We had an outdoor one right in the >middle of campus. > If you have other questions, just ask. > >> >> Jim Karczewski > -- Ethan Ethan is right.....the ONLY reason that Columbia was chosen as a focus school, is because of what he had already put in place there on his own, without our help. -- Howard S. Diamond Director of Education, Commodore Business Machines 1200 Wilson Drive West Chester, Pa, 19380 diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com 215-431-9142 MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND!! AMIGA!