Message-ID: <19981219175136.AAA26270@LOCALNAME> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 13:49:50 -0400 From: Kerry Miller <mailto:kerryo@NS.SYMPATICO.CA> Subject: Re: One a penny, two a penny To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Wilbur Streett wrote:> Microcash has been predicted in a lot of other medias as well, and has failed.
>
> No one wants to think about the rate of downloading a page, and the market
> has already established a free baseline. No one will go along with paying
> for content when it's already out there and free.
>
I absolutely agree, it wont happen today or tomorrow - not until the shoe pinches do we notice that its time for a change. As long as mail is free, let's sing and dance (at the isk of tangling my metapods!)
> Help the
> customer get the information that they need and then if they are interested
> in a product, provide a reference. Those that want to buy stuff will then
> naturally find the way to the product, and those that don't won't be
> offended by agressive marketing tactics.
>
Helping the c get info is becoming the market contact point! Of course as long as we can use Altavista for free, hey, why should we try to think ahead, grasp the possibility that this 'free time' is an incredible resource that we squander in failing to organize our own information-helpfulness, organize Devel- L for instance into a *self-sustainable* (sounds so much better than 'co- operative' doesnt it?) exchange. (Sorry, add a ?)> If the product has real value, it will generate income, if it doesn't,
> ranting about it doesn't make it have value.
Ranting, imho, has precious little value regardless of the 'product.' Any marketer knows you sell the gleam, not the bottle.
kerry