Author: Don Prohaska
Date: 08:29:08 06/17/98
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If much of your sales is to customers who have purchased Rebel products in the past then you would have no problems where you placed on the SSDF list anyway. Your products are superior and so is your customer service. But I see your point. Good luck with your Windows program! On June 17, 1998 at 04:55:13, Ed Schröder wrote:>> > >SSDF for me is (was) the ultimate competing ground. Being on top has >given me much more satisfaction than my 2 gained world-titles. Of course >there is also the financial part if you are on top of SSDF, at least *if* >you make it a topic in your advertisements but take my word for it that >my two world-titles (especially the one of Madrid) financially have been >much more worthy than being on top of SSDF. > >Like to add that for promoting Rebel, SSDF for me is just a very small >part of the total package. You have to realize that SSDF is very popular >to a small (and fixed) group of people but is very unknown to the wide >audience. I once placed an advertisement for Rebel8 in Chess Life. Topic >Rebel8 no.1 on top of SSDF. The feedback I got back was that 99.5% of the >Chess Life readers don't know what SSDF is, so in the ad. you have to >explain it first to your audience :) > >Bottom line, there is no such thing SSDF being the one and only thing >that counts. SSDF was a nice competing ground for me since 12 years but >as things are now I just drop it as it will not harm me, this until >things are back to normal. > >- Ed - > > >>bruce
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