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From: Giles Sirett <giles.sirett@shapeblue.com>
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Subject: Re: Barriers to awareness
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Agree with all your points ruv
A positive  article on Forbes would help too :-)

Kind Regards
Giles

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On 14 Apr 2014, at 16:47, "Reuven Cohen" <reuven.cohen@citrix.com<mailto:re=
uven.cohen@citrix.com>> wrote:

Guerilla marketing tactics. We need to act like insurgents. Our target is t=
hat other open source stack.

I'd say the most obvious tactic would be to colocate our events rather than=
 attempting to create a primary draw.

On the marketing front, our best bet is to get our customers and or users t=
o be our advocates. This involves us actually reaching out and helping them=
 do this with an orchestrated campaign to bring broader awareness.

@rUv

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Subject: Re: Barriers to awareness

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:05:27PM +1000, Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentra=
l wrote:
You can't convince a man about that which he is not incented to believe.
This probably isn't the droid you were looking for.

lolz...


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