Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Advertising (was Re: CDVT and CD-I) Message-ID: <1991Jun29.102831.9114@ncsu.edu> Date: 29 Jun 91 10:28:31 GMT References: <1991Jun26.221453.6865@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 16 arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) writes: >Oh come on, now. We cant keep chasing the endless "Its THEIR fault!" excuse. >Find the problem at the core and kill it. i.e. the nonexistant marketing >department at CBM. They had $15,000,000.00 to work with. THEY BLEW IT. Geez, I >would be more than HAPPY to drag out the ol' VHS deck and whip up a commercial >for them for free, geez, if its >ssssssoooooooo HARD< for them just to come up >with one commercial. Well, that last sentence gives me an idea. Has CBM ever asked for advertisement material from general users? Imagine this: They could throw open a (perhaps continuing) contest for commercials created on the Amiga. Prizes should be huge, of course :-) Who knows? They might well come across a real gem. kevin