Discussion of all things related to Public Domain

[tom poe <tompoe AT amihost.com>]

Here's a true success story.  Looks like it started in October of 2003. 
Will keep you posted.  This guy is doing it right!  That's what's going
to happen time and again with the community-recording studios around the
country, and around the world!
Tom

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> From: tom poe <tompoe AT AMIHOST.COM>
> To: FOLKVENU AT LISTS.PSU.EDU
> Subject: Re: comments sought, please
> Date: 26 Mar 2004 10:56:44 -0800
> 
> Hi, Pat:  Here is a wonderful, beautiful, meaningful story.  It warms my
> heart and hope that you will add web site address(es) where we can learn
> all the marvelous details about your success,and what you offer others.
> Is that possible?  Can I work with you off-list to try and see if we can
> add you to our SONG STORM project?  It's a nonprofit project of Open
> Studios, a 501(c)(3) organization located in Reno, Nevada, USA.
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:39, Pat Costello wrote:
> > on 3/26/04 11:32 AM, tom poe at tompoe AT AMIHOST.COM wrote:
> >
> > > With that, you can saturate the world!
> >
> > Not quite. In order to pull off something like this you also have to know
> > how to get people to view your content. It's not just a marketing thing-
> > it's also a matter of design skills and understanding how to handle and
> > distribute digital media in ways that not only sound and look good but are
> > also easy to use.
> >
> > The other factor is the quality of the material. Even with an effective 
> > plan
> > of attack people still won't bother to download crap. Most of the material
> > out there right now is actually worse than crap so in order to draw in a 
> > lot
> > of people there has to be something mind-blowing enough about the
> > performance or whatever to generate a buzz.
> >
> > It can be done. From my own experience making free banjo (and now guitar)
> > workshops available under a Creative Commons license
> > (www.creativecommons.org) created enough buzz about my book and video
> > workshops to generate an awful lot of sales. Once the ball was rolling
> > things kept moving and now I literally can't keep the book in stock. I 
> > don't
> > know much about the traditional ways publishers promote stuff- but 
> > selling a
> > coupe of thousand copies of a book without spending a dime on advertising 
> > or
> > bothering to send out review copies seems like a decent enough trick.
> >
> > When we started offering a .PDF version of the book available people told 
> > me
> > that pirated copies would be everywhere- but every other day we get orders
> > for hard copies of the book from people who had been given a copy of the
> > e-book version and wanted a copy of their own.
> >
> > The whole time this has been going on the core information in the book has
> > been freely available on the web site. The crazy thing about the whole 
> > thing
> > is that the more I give away the more the sales increase.
> >
> > -Patrick
> > pik-ware.com
> >
> >
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