Oddbean new post about login | logout I think you are mostly right, traditional advertising hasn’t really been all that successful yet and I’m not really gung ho about them either, but at the same time I see my much larger and more established competitors doing it, so why can’t I? But it is quite obvious it is toxic. I need to find more places to share knowledge about what I know. I really am looking more for beta testers and pilot projects than real customers at this point.
when i was doing my own biz my ads i delivered them to the letterboxes of the areas i was trying to get customers in i tried one time to do this in bulk with a big letterbox delivery spam company, spent $700 on it, and got zero responses, out of 5000 i estimated that with a laser printer and personal delivery i got 1% response rate, so on equal volumes that means 50, so, comparing, zero versus 1% most methods of advertising are extremely excessive in volume and indiscriminate in the targets it's probably the same for you i picked my areas... places with nice lawns and nice cars, places where people had the money to pay someone to come and fix their PC
I feel like in Denver Colorado I could scooter around town and put up flyers and do reasonably well
Did warn you I was biased! But perhaps my response was a bit heavy. You can of course do whatever you want but I would stand by the inefficiency of mainstream channels. Have you come across this before? Might be worth a look through the communities 😉 https://join-lemmy.org/ Had another look at your site and think the OS tech part is very cool!
This is cool, thanks for all your feedback it is really helpful. I will join Lemmy. Do you have any ideas for making my website convey my message better or just any ideas related to my site in general?