Marketing Idea
Marc Wiriadisastra
marc at mwiriadi.id.au
Sun Feb 3 00:18:51 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 19:12 -0500, Jon Stanley wrote:
> The FreeMedia program already exists - but it's completely volunteer
> based. Last month, the first month that I participated in the
> program, we got around 700 requests in a 2-day period where we were
> accepting requests for the month.
>
> The problem that we have is a lack of resources to ship out these
> DVD's for free. I restrict myself to the US, and even that costs me
> $1.31 per DVD to ship via first class mail, in addition to the cost of
> the media itself, and the padded mailers that I use ($1+ apiece).
>
> Such a program is not cheap, and I'm not sure how Ubuntu sustains it
> (unless it;s similar to ours, where we will send out the first 200
> requests in a month or so).
It's done volume based because the cd's are not that expensive. As an
example for me a dvd will cost $0.50 AUD shipping it will cost me $0.50
AUD locally anywhere in Australia. The most expensive is the special
envelopes which are made for cd/dvd's which cost $1.00 each.
Karlie will be able to explain more about volume since she is involved
with the sponsored media aspect of freemedia.
Cheers,
Marc
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