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This is great marketing. Tie in your promo to the highly-popular, highly-dubious event as an advertising tie-in to multiply its effectiveness -- as a fringe sto
by stephengillie 14y ago
This is great marketing. Tie in your promo to the highly-popular, highly-dubious event as an advertising tie-in to multiply its effectiveness -- as a fringe story involving the event, you're going to have your message repeated automatically by others interested in the event.
You guys just reminded me that a Visio competitor exists, and you got me to try it. You did this by using a marketing message which entertained me -- don't buy now because "tomorrow's doomsday". You gave me some entertainment value in exchange for taking my valuable time. Thanks.
- snowmiser 14y agoGoogle Docs also has a drawing program that I regularly substitute for Visio, but I do hope to see these Doomsday sales become a trend today.
- Nux 14y agoLibreoffice Draw or Inkscape can also be used.
- pserwylo 14y agoDo you use there straight out drawing capabilities? Or is there someway/plugin which allows the drawings to have the semantics of a graph (e.g. Line routing or layout managers. FYI I use yEd because it deals with all the semantic stuff very well.
- at-fates-hands 14y agoSpeaking of Google, their Doodle today celebrates the Grimm Fairy Tales. Not sure if they did that on purpose, but it sure ties in to the whole "doomsday" theme going on.
- ZoFreX 14y agoPersonally I use LucidChart, mainly because it actually just works better than Visio for creating flowcharts (the connector reflow logic is nicer).