Re: [Linux-aus] Make the move, 1 month on

[Chris Smart <chris@kororaa.org>]

On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 13:31 +1100, Clint Shumack wrote:
> How about some traditional marketing? For example, an advertisement for 
> OpenOffice on a TV network or a major Newspaper, before corporate 
> Australia becomes locked into Microsoft's new products. Switching to 
> Linux is still too complicated for the people who will pay for Vista, 
> but OpenOffice is simple and has a significant cost benefit.
Back when this started I did have thoughts to launch an advertising
campaign "Make The Move" on TV with the cooperation of companies like
Novell, Canonical, Redhat, Sun etc, but I doubt that will ever actually
happen.

Thanks to Brent and Rimian too for their thoughts.

Cheers,
Chris

> 
> 
> 
> Brent Wallis wrote:
> > How about some guerrilla marketing?
> > There are 4-5 windows of Myer Bourke St Melbourne with artsy displays
> > done up to advertise  Vista.....handing out pamphlets/CDs in front of
> > them would be interesting.....
> >
> > BW
> > On 2/2/07, Chris Smart <chris@kororaa.org> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> The site http://makethemove.net is now one month old. In its first month
> >> we saw 30,173 unique visitors to the site which was great!
> >>
> >> As this hasn't been discussed on the linux-aus mailing list yet, I'm
> >> wondering if anyone has some suggestions how we can extend the reach of
> >> the site to make it accessible by more people? (I.e how to spread the 
> >> word
> >> around.)
> >>
> >> If you haven't seen the site yet, please do. I would appreciate any
> >> comments and suggestions that people might have. I do have numerous
> >> content changes on  the way as well as another 10 or so languages
> >> (hopefully) and a few other things.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Chris
> >>
> >>
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