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From: Gregory Hirsch <ghirsch@NERMAL.SANTAROSA.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Advertising on the net
Date: 10 Jun 1994 00:27:38 +0300
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  AOL should do some basic market research. Internet users that subscribe to
newslists are sophisticated users and do not require your overpriced
remedial services.

On Thu, 9 Jun^C 1994, CDBACKUP wrote:

> To All users in this area,
>
> First off I would like to apologize to all of you who have been
> insulted by our company's  blatant advertising on the net.  Actually
> we have only received one message stating that the net was not the
> place for our messages.
>
> We have received 6 orders in the last month from people who have read
> about us in this area and had no idea such a service was even
> available (in the price range that would be acceptable to the general
> public) We have sent out over 50 brochures from readers in this area.
>  I feel that this service can be of great help  to many people out
> there and  to keep the prices down  we have chosen to advertise in
> free areas like the net et.  Due to this form of advertising we have
> kept our cost down to about one-third of the  industry  average.
>
> The other advantage to passing on information and advertising through
> the net is that the information is very current.  Many of us use the
> net, c-serve, AOL et because the information is current, even monthly
> magazines are out of date,  by-monthly magazines are horribly out of
> date.
>
> I also feel that this forum is very open but only has a few messages
> a day on it so we feel that we are not over burdening you readers
> with loads of junk.  We have also made a point to put a dollar amount
> in the topic area so that people not interested do not have to waste
> their time/money by reading our ads.
>
> I would be interested in what people have to say about this subject.
> I know I like it so I am biased.
>
> I thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you all.
>
> Georges Brown
> CD Archive, Inc.
> cdbackup@aol.com
>