OT: Marketting question

[Raymond J. Payne]

I think in order my preference is good quality shirts, mugs, pens, cheap
shirts.  In realistic terms I think vendors get the most advertising
from me for the buck with mugs though.

I know from talking to one of the presenters for Sun that the golf
shirts cost them about $70 each with the logo.  Cheap shirts typically
get the reaction of being cool when people get them but are viewed as
ugly more often than not after the fact.  I have dozens of t-shirts from
seminars and vendors that my wife cringes at if I wear them when we'll
see anyone we know.

Most vendors I deal with have some sort of token they give with quotes
and purchases.  Quality of the pen really matters.  The pens I've been
given from Dell 6 years ago are still in great shape with daily use.
Microsoft gives away pens at the TechNet sessions that are lucky to
survive more than a month.

Mugs sit on my desk at the office and since I have a caffeine addiction
get high visibility by everyone in the company on a daily basis.  Not
many places seem to give mugs as well, so there is much less chance of
your mug being stored in a cupboard somewhere and never being seen.

Bit of a long rant, but I apparently have too much time on my hands this
morning.  :)

Ray

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Madison
Kelly
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:16 AM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: [TLUG]: OT: Marketting question

Hi all,

   I wanted the opinion of fellow geeks so I hope it is okay that I am 
asking this on this list. :)

   I want to ask my boss for some give-aways for upcoming talks I will 
be doing on my program (the backup program). What would you guys and 
gals want, if you could choose, as a marketing gimmick.

   For example, would you most likely hang onto/use a T-shirt, a mug, 
something else?

Thanks all!

Madison

-- 
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
                       Madison Kelly (Digimer)
                TLE-BU, The Linux Experience; Back Up
Main project page:  http://tle-bu.org
Mailing lists:      https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=120632
Community Forum:    http://tle-bu.org/cgi-bin/board/ikonboard.cgi
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml