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3 total messages Started by Taegan D. Goddard Fri, 20 Jul 1990 08:37

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Author: Taegan D. Goddard
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 1990 08:37

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                           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!

Re: Marketing your software

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Author: Paul Shields
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 1990 06:47

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m1tdg00@fsrcs1.fed.frb.gov (Taegan D. Goddard) writes:
>                           Publish Your Programs!
>             A Hypertext Guide for the Software Entreprenneur

That looks awefully suspicious to me.  The $20 fee described, with no
explanation or justification for the price tag, forces me to assume
that it is a commercial advertisement.

--- FLAME ON! ---

Usenet's purpose is to distribute FREE information.

Upon examination, that message has been SEPARATELY posted to SEVERAL
newsgroups, forcing my system to store it not once, but many times.

Please excuse my anger, but I use this network so that I may get away
from advertising.  Regardless of the quality of the goods or services
advertised, postings such as that do not belong here.

This person has used MY money to store and distribute an
advertisement.  Perhaps I, and those of you who are also angry at such
flagrant abuses of the network, should send the advertiser a
bill for services rendered.

--
Paul Shields

Re: Marketing your software

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Author: Dave Mack
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 1990 01:12

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In article <12955@yunexus.YorkU.CA> shields@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Paul Shields) writes:
>m1tdg00@fsrcs1.fed.frb.gov (Taegan D. Goddard) writes:
>>                           Publish Your Programs!
>>             A Hypertext Guide for the Software Entreprenneur
>
>That looks awefully suspicious to me.  The $20 fee described, with no
>explanation or justification for the price tag, forces me to assume
>that it is a commercial advertisement.
>
>--- FLAME ON! ---
>
>Usenet's purpose is to distribute FREE information.

Really? Where does it say that? Did you have to PAY for Mr. Goddard's
advertisement (any more than you had to pay for any other message
your system received, that is?) Look's to me like his article was
just as FREE as anything else that comes floating through here.

>Upon examination, that message has been SEPARATELY posted to SEVERAL
>newsgroups, forcing my system to store it not once, but many times.

Ooooh. Why don't you flame him for failing to crosspost properly?

>Please excuse my anger, but I use this network so that I may get away
>from advertising.  

Maybe you should consider moving to Antarctica. I understand there's
very little advertising there.

>		    Regardless of the quality of the goods or services
>advertised, postings such as that do not belong here.

You're wrong, they DO belong here. Goddard's product may be very useful
to those of us who don't plan to spend our retirement eating dogfood.
I, for one, thank him for informing us of the existence of this product
and encourage others to post similar informative articles.

>This person has used MY money to store and distribute an
>advertisement.  

WOW! You own the York University Computing Services? Jeez, I am
really impressed.

>		 Perhaps I, and those of you who are also angry at such
>flagrant abuses of the network, should send the advertiser a
>bill for services rendered.

Perhaps you (and those like you) should take your microcephali out of
your asses.

-- 
Dave Mack
Thank you for crossposting to alt.flame. Have a nice day.

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