I'm a bit new to this thread, hope you don't mind me tossing in my two cents. Couple of thoughts: - we need to think clearly about the target audience of the event, and why they would want to attend. - determine our budget, organize our resources and then execute - time is growing short, so finding a rapid way to spread the word is critical. - banner ads on appropriate venues is most certainly a good idea, though not. often not free. But sure a lot cheaper, quicker, and easier to produce than print ads. - another excellent method is PR, which is often free and brings with it a multiplier effect. If we can seed this with an 'announcement', or quotes from a recent success story or key note speaker then all the better. Kerrin and karsten already have a head start on this. - direct email is likely a winner as well, as I'd expect we have links to most of our target audience anyway. We'll need to identify some target lists. Thoughts? Is there a budget we're working to? Is it zero? Or is there an opportunity to make a business case and get a bit? Have we written down our goals or target audience anywhere yet? Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Clint Savage <clints@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:31:38 To:For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base <fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: FUDCon Marketing? John Poelstra wrote: > Mike McGrath said the following on 12/13/2007 08:14 AM Pacific Time: >> John Poelstra wrote: >>> I thought Mike McGrath started a good idea with the thread about a >>> banner ad... what else are we doing to spread the word about FUDCon? >>> I haven't seen any external press. >> >> For those that haven't seen it we do have a fudcon banner rotating on >> http://fedoraproject.org/ refresh it a few times. Its a new >> mechanism for us so if you don't see it or its broken let us know. >> >> -Mike >> > > It is being blocked by AdBlock on Firefox3b1 for me. I really think we > need to add the specific dates... "2008" is too vague and the event is > less than 30 days away! > > John > Adblock is blocking it for me as well... Clint -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
