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Skriven 2005-12-05 14:36:59 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 17910 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Hello
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05 Dec 05 17:19, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Björn Felten:

One, very important point in your example is missing. Of all the 1000
bars in that town, 1000 each of the sexes aren't exactly tied to one bar,
one person. In fact, they can all play in every bar at once. Thus, the
chances of meeting a mate are extremely likely. And, even if there's a
single bar with only one person there, the word soon gets out that, that
bar is the place to be and wallah, 1999 people show up there.


 MvdV> Hello Björn,

 ST>>> No, you obviously know little about marketing

 >>    Right. Advertising inside the shop to get more customers is
 >> a really great marketing strategy. I prefer to advertise
 >> outside of fidonet. Google for "Fidonet in your news reader"

 MvdV> Other than that, these guys don't seem to understand that "more" is
 MvdV> not equivalent to "better".

 MvdV> The purpose of it all is that people get to meet other people to
 MvdV> communicate right? So bear with me for the moment.

 MvdV> Suppose we have a village with 30 bars and 1000 boys and 1000 girls
 MvdV> looking for a mate. On Saturday night they would spread over the
 MvdV> bars in town and on average we would expect each bar to have just
 MvdV> over 30 boys and 30 girls. That would give then a far chance of
 MvdV> finding a suitable partner I'd say.

 MvdV> Now turn it around. A town with 1000 bars and 30 boys and 30 girls.
 MvdV> if they were to spread randomly over town, how are the chances of
 MvdV> finding a mate? Near zero I'd say. Chances are less than 10 percent
 MvdV> that a seeker would land in a bar where he was the only customer.
 MvdV> Not very good.

 MvdV> Now what would happen in a situation like that in the real world is
 MvdV> that all but one of the 1000 bars would go bankrupt and the one or
 MvdV> two remaining would do good business on Saturday night by providing
 MvdV> the opportunity for boys and girls to meet.


 MvdV> Throw out all those dead or near dead echos and just carry those
 MvdV> that are in demand and have flow.

 MvdV> Cheers, Michiel

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