Re: I want to sell your CD through our stores

[Sean Echevarria <sean.loop@creepingfog.com>]

You might find this article tangentially interesting:
http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/faq/index.html

It's a positive spin on the character of internet sales/distribution (not 
about spam but about availability of titles, etc).  But as you point out, 
marketing is different than sales.


At 2006.05.23 12:37 AM, Per Boysen wrote:
>Not talking about Vendpro in specific, but many of the new internet
>based CD sale shops seem to miss out on the fundamental factor that
>has to be there in the first place: a market.
>
>What does it help to put products on display if there are no people
>out there looking for this product? My understanding of this concept
>is a certain way of degrading the value of the product. This all
>happens because of the general character of the internet, the
>infrastructure that makes spam a viable business idea only because
>you can send out billions of "offers" knowing that if only 0,00001
>percent of the population is stupid enough to buy into it the cost- 
>benefit analysis will work out.