small flash cards for low prize?

[Rajinder Yadav]

Why even bother with a flash drive promo for you personal work, wouldn't a website be the best medium.

If the flash drive were of a usable capacity say 8G like the one I have, most likely I would just grab one and format it for personal use.

If I was really interested in your work, i.e presentation I would inquire where I could download it or see it later online, and how I could get in contact with you email. Also having something online would allow you to connect with people and also allow your work to be more organic (living vs dead).

For companies giving away the USB as promo item, most likely they have a website, the logo on the USB has the company name and or website URL, and that is what they are hoping for in the first place, to drive people to their website. So someone like me who formatted the flash drive, would still be able to go to their website many month later.

Personally I would not bother having a USB drive with such a small capacity that it would be practically junk for me. A 1 Gig flash drive would compel me to upgrade and keep with up the Jones ;) so I would end up buying one while keeping my eye on for a big sale.

The idea sounds a nice way to self promote, but it has many barriers, how many people do you expect to will put the flash drive on there key-chain and keep your personal work around with them? If the number is high then it's worth the investment, otherwise put your work on a website and drive traffic there.

Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav

--- On Fri, 6/26/09, James Knott <james.knott at rogers.com> wrote:

> From: James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: small flash cards for low prize?
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Received: Friday, June 26, 2009, 10:04 PM
> Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> >
> > You may wonder why I am asking such strange
> question...
> >
> > We all know that costs of flash memory sticks drops
> down like crazy. A
> > something that was 100 $ a 5 years ago is now ...
> well.. it is nowhere
> > now.
> >
> > I would love to buy even a 1 MB SSD USB memory stick
> for 1 $. I would
> > buy them perhaps in 100 amount. Why?
> >
> > Because thats a great medium for advertising: lets
> imagine that I am
> > at a big international conference of physicists and I
> would like to
> > everyone who become interested in my poster
> presentation to handle a
> > digital copy of presentation plus other works I did
> during last 53
> > years. Sure, I could give a copy of CD. But SSD memory
> stick is easier
> > to handle. CD they will throw away while that small
> device they will
> > keep for ever near to their garbage can. And what if
> it was somewhat
> > more than 1.2 MB ? Than we could put a copy of
> Slackware 1.0 there as
> > well...
> >
> 
> A device that size has less capacity than a floppy and
> would therefore
> be essentially useless these days.  Also, you won't
> save much by making
> one with so little capacity.  Companies are giving
> away 1 GB and more as
> promotional items.
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