Re: OT: Advice sought...
Re: OT: Advice sought...
- Subject: Re: OT: Advice sought...
- From: Mark Eissler <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:38:07 -0500
Some of these questions will be answered already and depend upon the
sophistication of your marketing plans (if any). Can your app work in a
freeware mode or does it require registration just to start up? If the
latter, then it wouldn't make sense to distribute it this way.
Obviously, if the former is true then this might be a great way to gain
additional distribution but I would strongly suggest you leverage off
of that by offering built-in upgrade registration and information as to
why someone would want to upgrade.
As for asking for a free product in return...that's a tricky question
because it really depends upon who is gaining more from this
arrangement. In most cases, it will be you and that means its not
appropriate to ask for something in return.
-mark
On Jan 27, 2004, at 10:54 PM, Michael Mulligan wrote:
I haven't had any experience with this, but just some thoughts:
I would wonder first is it something that you would be comfortable
with? And do they stand to profit from your work in any way (i.e. is
it an unlocked version of your app?) or does this simply just get your
app more of an audience at no cost to you?
And of course ask for a free sample of the product ;-)
-Mike
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On Jan 27, 2004, at 10:19 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
Slightly off-topic, but I couldn't find a better place to ask, so I
hope I
won't offend anybody.
I did develop a shareware application that I've been distributing
over the
last year.
Tonight, a guy from a company that manufactures firewire and USB
portable
hard drives, external DVD and CD burners and a few other things
called me
because they would be interested in bundling my application with their
products.
I don't have any experience in that kind of agreement and doesn't know
anybody that does, so I was wondering if somebody on this list that
had
prior experiences would be nice enough to share their experience with
me.
Thanks in advance for any advice, pointer or info!
-Laurent.
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