From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 14 08:35:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA26898 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 08:35:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA26893 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 08:35:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA06184; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 08:35:31 -0800 (PST) To: Eivind Eklund cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "The competition" In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:31:07 +0100." <3.0.32.19970314143106.01787de0@dimaga.com> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 08:35:31 -0800 Message-ID: <6179.858357331@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > At 10:40 PM 3/13/97 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >> Full page ad in Sysadmin Magazine. I wish we could afford that. *sigh* > > > >We could, actually. It's not as hard as you think. > > The last time my corporation paid for a similar ad (full page in a > reasonably specialized trade magazine) I seem to remember paying about > $15k. Unless we can get them to give us an _extremely_ cheap ad, I can't > see how we can afford it if we can't even afford to replace spatter :-( We don't. Walnut Creek CDROM does, and it's a more than effective advertising vehicle for them if the advertisement is done right (and it's an operating expense they can deduct from taxes :). It's simply, as I said before, the case that neither WC nor us have the kinds of personnel to handle advertising on that scale and so we don't do it. $15K is a lot cheaper than a full-time advertising exec, and that's what we *really* can't afford here. :-) > Besides, that was a damn good text. We'd need somebody that both could > come up with that kind of idea, have the technical insight, and can polish > it off that way. Exactly. Jordan