[comp.os.msdos.apps] Marketing your software

m1tdg00@fsrcs1.fed.frb.gov (Taegan D. Goddard) (07/20/90)

                           Publish Your Programs!
             A Hypertext Guide for the Software Entreprenneur

                            by Taegan D. Goddard

Have you developed a useful computer program?  This guide teaches you how 
to bring your program to market.  Topics include:

        * Finding a publisher         * Shareware marketing
        * Marketing strategies        * Incentives for registering
        * Publishing it yourself      * Retail distribution
        * Naming your program         * Catalog distribution
        * Packaging                   * Finding a reseller
        * Market profiles             * User groups and BBSs
        * Market research             * Magazine reviews
        * Registering a copyright     * Query letters
        * The ISBN standard           * and many other topics...

Publish Your Programs! is constantly being updated to reflect marketing
trends and new opportunities for the software entrepreneur.

Publish Your Programs! is a hypertext guide that runs on IBM PCs and
compatibles.  The program comes in both stand-alone and memory resident 
versions.  It makes use of the mouse if one is available.  
An index and table of contents make browsing the guide simple.  Just 
click (or press <enter>) on any topic and that page instantly pops on 
screen.  While reading a topic just click on a highlighted word to jump 
to that new topic.  Backtrack or move forward along your train of thought.

Taegan D. Goddard is an independent software developer with success in
both the traditional commercial and shareware markets.  He is the author
of Liberty!, an educational software program now marketed nationwide
by Zephyr Services of Pittsburgh, PA.  Several of his programs are also 
offered as shareware.  His disk, The Home Control Primer, has generated 
over 150 registrations from home automation enthusiasts.

Publish Your Programs! is currently available directly from the author 
for just $20.  Please send your checks to: 
 
	      		  Taegan D. Goddard
			  35 Woodside Circle
			  Hartford, CT 06105

Thank you for your support!

darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) (07/23/90)

In article <M1TDG00.90Jul20093800@fsrcs1.fed.frb.gov>
m1tdg00@fsrcs1.fed.frb.gov (Taegan D. Goddard) writes:
>                           Publish Your Programs!
>             A Hypertext Guide for the Software Entreprenneur
>                            by Taegan D. Goddard
>
>Publish Your Programs! is currently available directly from the author 
>for just $20.  Please send your checks to: 
> 
How come whenever anyone dumps this sort of shit on the net they have to
post separately to every newsgroup they can think of.  I have seen this in
at least half a dozen groups.  Next we can expect the obligatory apology
for posting commercial advertising and it will be posted to every group
separately as well right?

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streib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Allan Streib) (07/28/90)

In article <1990Jul23.022536.2453@druid.uucp> darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:

>How come whenever anyone dumps this sort of shit on the net they have to
>post separately to every newsgroup they can think of.  I have seen this in
>at least half a dozen groups.  Next we can expect the obligatory apology
>for posting commercial advertising and it will be posted to every group
>separately as well right?

I agree that the article should be CROSSposted, not individually
posted to each group, but what is the "official" policy regarding
advertising on the net?  I understood that advertising is OK as long
as there is an explicit indication that the post is an advertisement
(in the Subject: line, for instance).

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Allan (streib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu)