From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 26 12:41:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from o-o.org (o-o.org [207.252.201.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7676614FA5 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 12:39:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Received: from localhost (licia@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by o-o.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03169; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:39:21 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:39:21 -0600 (CST) From: Licia To: Zippy Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a "how did you hear about us?" form on www.freebsd.org? In-Reply-To: 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 This sounds like a good idea but personally, I worry about the expense... if each premium were to cost 10 cents, and there were 200,000 registrations, then -just- the cost of the premiums would run $20,000... and I have a feeling there are a bit more than 200,000 people out there using FreeBSD ;) On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Zippy wrote: > 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 > [ licia@o-o.org ] [ http://www.o-o.org/~licia/ ] [ Alias : Ladywolf] [ Telnet to o-o.org and log in as bbs ] [ ssh -l bbs -C o-o.org ] [ A happy user of FreeBSD : http://www.freebsd.org/ ] main(){int num[4]={1768122732,762265697,1919889007,103};printf("%s\n",num);} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message