laurent laffont wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Geert Claes wrote:
Don't get me wrong Ralph, that's exactly what I meant when I said when you have "an application users want to use" ... because this IS your market. If you miss this ball on this one you can have all the documentation, exposure, advertising and whatever in the world, it still wont make people want your application.
Not sure about this. Documentation, exposure and advertising attracts people. And among these people some will want to use what you have to offer.
Yes, absolutely but again: only if you have an application people "want" to use so that's the first priority. laurent laffont wrote:
I've just played a little with PharoCasts: - Claire made a skin so the site looks better - I've started a campain with google adwords (google offered me 80€ to try)
results: more visits, more Flattr and several mails from newcommers in my inbox.
This is just a little experiment but it seems it works.
Nice, just one remark, the PharoCasts logo doesn't seem to work very well against the dark grey background. laurent laffont wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Geert Claes wrote:
I agree and this is where I am trying to help as well. It is extremely important but please beware that "marketing" is not something only "marketeers" do, everyone involved is participating in marketing, starting from application's requirements/features, look-and-feel, usability, quality, cost/license, documentation, support etc ... the whole shebang :)
I agree. world.st is nice. We need to have more people writing blogs, tweet, screencasts .... it's not hard, it's not a lot of time. If people want Smalltalk to succeed, do a small thing every day.
IMHO everyone and everyday is actually more important than big project/application. Big project is the consequence.
Thanks and absofreakinlutely :) I actually wrote this post about CMS because world.st is currently a Google Sites website -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Smalltalk-hosting-tp3384077p3384423.html Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.