Re: SED Posts in the Wild

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:30:22 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:23:18 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
<speffSNIP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:49:07 -0600, the renowned "Vladimir
Vassilevsky" <antispam_bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]
Who reads the newsgroups? Mostly marginals, amateurs and stupidents; you
shouldn't expect much usefulness from that sort of public.

VLV

Well, not everyone is an electronics designer, and some people who
dabble know enough to git down to the old saloon and lassoo
thermselves a hired gun when real money is involved. Maybe enough to
keep an old gunslinger in Chardonnay.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

Certainly keeps me in Chardonnay ;-)

My leads break down like...

40% are previous customers or referrals by previous customers

30% are from agencies

20% are from my website

10% mention seeing a "discussion", but usually from Google finding it

...Jim Thompson


Most of our new-customer business comes from google searches. A lot of
the rest comes from word-of-mouth within customer divisions. We do
print ads and direct mail and Globalspec, all of which are likely a
waste of money.

As Lord Leverhulme said, half of our advertising dollars are wasted,
but we don't know which half.

I expect zero business from newsgroups. Some sorts of business things
are possible of course, like finding potential employees, or
consultants, or learning about good parts or suppliers.

John



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