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From: paulg@bhpmrl.oz.au (Paul Gallagher)
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Subject: Re: Shareware Distribution
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.101630.26196@bhpmrl.oz.au>
Date: 23 Apr 91 10:16:30 GMT
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frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:

>In article <1991Apr17.134253.8931@bhpmrl.oz.au> paulg@bhpmrl.oz.au (Paul Gallagher) writes:
>>To change the subject slightly, has anyone out there had any good/bad
>Well, I have has fairly decent response from Australia/New Zealand, but
>a get a better response form westarn Europe and Canada.  The response from
>USA is by far the best. Not much response from the Far East, ond only a
>handful of registrations from South America and Africa.  Nothing
>whatsoever from eastern Europe - perhaps not surprising.

>-frisk

I guess marketing types would say you've "targeted your market" well. I
can believe that anti-virus software would pay since (a) corporations
are more likely to cough-up ["quality is proportional to cost"!] and (b)
everyone seems to be paranoid about getting the latest virus-signature
list.

Have you distributed other types of software? How does the response compare?

PaulG.
PS "The cheque's in the mail"!