Amarok promo brainstorming

[Leo Franchi]

On 17 Jul 2009, at 05:14, Kuba Serafinowski wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 09:05, Wendy Van Craen  
> <wendy.vancraen at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Another idea:
>
> printing cool Amarok stickers (I have connections for good prices due
> my daytime job...)
>
> We make the sticker some kind of 4-pages leaflet ->1 of the pages
> contains the sticker, on the other 3 pages we promote Amarok in a way
> like "DISCOVER FREE MUSIC WITH AMAROK, go to www.---.org for more
> information" -> I would however recommend to create a mini-webpage
> just for this promotion.  This website should be very
> new-potential-user-centered and be very appealing, so anyone who
> visits the site would download Amarok "just to try it out".
>
> Afterwards we can make statistics on how many downloads we had during
> this promotion.
>
>
> Where to distribute these leaflets/stickers?  In student bars, at
> schools, sports clubs, disco's, on parties, ...
> I love to go out, so I'd love to help distribute :-)
>
>
> This is a very easy thing to do, it only takes some volunteering from
> us, the community.  Above all, it is not expensive at all to do a
> thing like this.
> I agree, it's not that hard for us to advertise in such way, BUT, my  
> main concern about promotion is our product, what do we want to  
> promote? For serious promotion we need serious product. No one on  
> the street (club, whatever) will take us serious if will promote  
> just Linux version of Amarok, which - no matter how great - they  
> will never try on their Win or Mac. So:
> My last and most important question is: What's with our Mac&Win ports?
>
> PS I've been using Amarok on Win on my vbox, and it *works* but it's  
> definitely not product we want to advertise..


Same thing on the Mac platform: it works, but i wouldn't give it to my  
friends. Streams dont play (phonon issue), feels out of place, not a  
great experience.

cheers,
leo

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