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- I would start out grassroots-style. Attend .NET meetups to talk about your work and your project while you network. Offer promotions to these groups if they'l
by mikegreenberg 15y ago
- I would start out grassroots-style. Attend .NET meetups to talk about your work and your project while you network. Offer promotions to these groups if they'll have them.
- Sponsor .NET Hack-a-thons?
- Help feverishly in .NET forums and community sites like Stackoverflow. (Put the service in your profile...people really look!)
- Create programs that provide incentive for your customers to spread the word about a product they already love. Word of mouth is the best/cheapest/most-effective variety of advertising that I know of.
I'm not much of a marketing guy, but this is where I would start at first thought. :) BTW, the control really does look quite nice. If I were a .NET developer I'd be interested in using it.
Note: Tag line states "No Learning Needed", then in your advantages section you state "Minimum learning needed." Strive to be consistent.
- jirinovotny 15y agoThanks for your advice Mike! We can't attend .NET meetings that much, because we are based in Czech Republic. Hack-a-thon sponsorship is an excellent idea. Any idea how to find these? Thanks for spotting the inconsistency, too!
- mikegreenberg 15y agoYou might not be able to find them, but you can always organize one yourself. It doesn't have to be huge, either. 20-30 people can be a lot of fun. I'd also check out Meetup. They offer ways for sponsorships. See if you can find any .NET groups on there and offer them sponsorships (as in free/discounted licenses). Even if you give away a few licenses, you'd likely get a lot of great word-of-mouth marketing. And consider also sponsoring and attending conferences. Especially Microsoft/.NET related ones. The travel will obviously be expensive, but it could be a viable way to spend your marketing budget.