A Summary So Far Of Your Marketing/Advertising Ideas

Back on the 14th I posted $10 Million To Make A Clarion .Net Ad.

There was a great response, both here and on the newsgroups. Following is a summary of your thoughts:

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Murray Gillespie

• It was a simple ad, "Ease of use vs Price", that sold Clarion to him.

Richard Rose

• Language. Appgen. Smart Approach. Templates. Integration. Code Generation (from Dave).
• Talk about global companies who are using it. Mentioned largest construction company in the world (www.alrahabeach.com).

Dave Harms (http://clarionmag.com)

• "Templates" while the world was saying "Objects".
• Quote: "We’ve been doing code generation since Bill Gates was in short pants. And now we do it for .NET."

Gustavo Pinsard

• "From novice to expert, to customer satisfaction."
• True language. Strong code generation capabilities built into the IDE.
• Screenshots:
  1. A piece of Clarion source.
  2. Appgen in action.
  3. Image picturing satisfied Customer.
• Programmers / Developers AND Customers / End Users.

Paul MacFarlane

• Do a World Tour.
• Give out Subscriptions.
• Training Class, in two halves.
  1. Demo the program, Instructor creates an App.
  2. Attendees create their own Apps.

NEWSGROUPS

Paul MacFarlane, Mark Riffey, Pratik, Myself

• Conversation about the Intangibility of Advertising.

Andy Morgan, Dave Harms, Jeff Slarve, Richard Rose, Myself

• Conversation about Trial Versions, Time Limit, Usage Counters.

Pratik

• Hold a conference next to MS Visual Studio‘s next one.
  • "Clarion: Be productive .. Be Profitable."

Paul MacFarlane, Richard Rose, Andy Morgan

• Conversation about World Tour, User Groups.

Art Bonds, Myself

• Pirate jokes. Because no conversation is complete without them.

 

There you have it. If I’ve left anything out, please let me know in the comments.

This was a fantastic exercise. I’m going to continue down the same vein.

What would you like me to ask the Community next?