From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 26 7:16:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fed-ef1.frb.gov (fed.frb.gov [132.200.32.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F7214C08 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 07:16:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org) Received: by fed-ef1.frb.gov; id KAA25003; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:16:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from m1pmdf.frb.gov(192.168.3.38) by fed.frb.gov via smap (4.1) id xma024540; Fri, 26 Mar 99 10:15:34 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:15:29 -0500 (EST) From: Zippy Subject: Re: Is there a "how did you hear about us?" form on www.freebsd.org? In-reply-to: To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm probably gonna get flamed for this, too, but it just means I'm causing people to think, right? :) One thing that I've noticed about product registrations: people are more likely to DO it if there's an incentive. 3Com did it with their Palm Pilots; if you registered, you got a gift. Would it be possible to do the same thing with FreeBSD? Things I'm thinking might work: a sticker or two (if we want really low-cost incentives), the next release at a discount, etc. I'm thinking that there could be a registration postcard in the WC distribution, and there could be a notice at the installation as well. If we were to go with the discounted future release, this may have an overall POSITIVE effect: those customers who register after *downloading* the install might be more likely to PAY for the discounted next release ("hey, it's cheaper, it's a one-time deal, and I like having the CD's!"), thereby adding to WC's sales. Of course, there are downsides: the obvious cost of hte incentive, and the hidden costs: we'd need people to enter in registration information that came via snail-mail, database maintainers, etc. Just something to think about... SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message