BitFighter Advertising Sub-Forum

I messaged Wat about this but I know he is busy and I'm not sure if there is any other procedure to add a sub-forum, so I thought I would post here, let all the admins can see the suggestion, and hope for the best.

I think that a minimal-cost advertising campaign could really help grow the gaming community. By targeting gaming stores, cyber cafes, and programming clubs with snail-mail, we could reach out to a large number of people in an original way for little more than the cost of stamps and envelopes.

To avoid any kind of elitism, I think this should be a volunteer effort open to the whole community. However, there would need to be some coordination to make it efficient (maybe one person could do research/find addresses, one person could write up letters, and someone else could mail the things).

Naturally, I think a sub-forum would be most useful for this effort, and in this sub-forum I think three sections would be useful:
1) Research (Potential Contacts)
2) Strategy (Pre-written letters)
3) Correspondence (Who we've contacted already, and a summary of their response, if any).

#3 would mostly be so we could judge the effectiveness efforts based on feedback/results, and so that we don't bother people with multiple attempts.

Sorry for asking but why do in manually when you can get a automated email spammer would that be more efficient.

[Skybax]

Because everyone hates automated email spammers.

A personally written letter is much more effective.

But couldnt you get millions more users by using a automated email service over licking 10000000 envolopes and dying from anthrax poisoning?

(before you complain letter glue actually contains anthrax in it but its a minute amount only about 3/100000 parts so you would have to spends months non stop licking envelopes to die.)

I don't know which way would get more people, but I don't see why we don't do both. Amgine, you can be in charge of sending out emails. If you need any help, feel free to ask and I'll try.

[Skybax]

Also, he wasn't talking about mailing thousands of letters to random people, he was talking about writing and mailing specific letters to "gaming stores, cyber cafes, and programming clubs."

Much less anthrax involved

I am looking into it and atm the best service for bitfighter seems to be mailchimp you can get up to 2000 subsribers and 12,000 emails per month for free I will raptor set this up however there are concerns.

1. because you have to input information and I feel the main leader of bitfighter should do this.

2. Is no longer invalid its fine.

Well, regardless of that, I am more interested in a low-cost, snail mail campaign. Something well put together and tasteful. Not as massive junk mail campaign, but a targeted and energetic letter campaign.

Idk I think a fast aggressive campaign would be better its all up to tastes.

However I do not think your idea is bad users are users no matter how they are gotten

[watusimoto]

No spam.

you mean this spam ? (sorry couldn't resist.)

http://i.imgur.com/WDAnvKb.png




Maybe your right but we do need to get the word out for bitfighter somehow....

Can this thread be moved to promotion btw.

[Skybax]

Try again

I dont know how to get images to show up gah my lack of drupal skills.