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>To Tom and the FP World.
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>I just sent an email to PC-Week marketing to get a price on an Ad. Also to get a price on the email that focuses on an ad.
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>We need to focus on 3 things primarily before we spin out of control. We need some organization, a game plan and a published set of goals to see if we are meeting our expectations.
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>Concepts of Non Profit organization come to mind. What type of revenue production are we going to employ? Who gets to claim membership and what are it's benefits?
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>Where do we locate this said orgainzation? What is the primary purpose of the group / foundation ?
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>After we get that set down then we should decide what we are going to accomplish. A web site comes to mind that has downloads of vfp apps, so does a marketing blitz on print and news media. Can we get a spot on a local radio show or TV braodcast that highlights computers? How about national syndicated shows?
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>This is a sleeping dragon that we are kicking here. Talk is cheap and bits in cyberspace are less valuable. This beast is going to consume 4 to 10 people over the course of 6 months.
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>__Stephen Russell
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>>Stephen, looks like your message has created a very long thread.
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>>Everyone here agrees that VFP is a great development tool. Unfortunatley,
>>Bill Gates did not create this product and it has had terrible marketing
>>efforts put forth on their part. Your are right in that he Redmond boys have treated this product as a "red headed step child".
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>>Perhaps the best defense is a strong offense. What would the press
>>reaction be if all of us UT members put forth a few bucks and bought a
>>one page ad in say InfoWeek. Wasn't it InfoWeek that started the "Fox
>>is dead" rumor? If the ad was well thought out and stated our position
>>that Fox is a great development tool something like - "just thought we'd like to tell you VFP is a great product - paid by VFP developers". What would
>>the M$ boys reaction be? I suspect something like this has never been
>>done where the users actually pay for an ad because the product's owner
>>has neglected it. This would cause quite a stir in the trade magazines
>>and generate a lot of attention toward VFP - don't you think.
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>>I suspect that a full page ad would cost a few thousand dollars but the
>>results could truly be astounding. My thought is to promote the positive
>>things about VFP (perhaps some web links to the EuroTunnel and Army Logistics
>>articles) not to be negative in any way. If the bottom of the ad states
>>that "this was paid for by VFP developers from the UT" it would go a long
>>way in making our case public.
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>>What are your thoughts?
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