Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucsd!sdics!meadors From: meadors@sdics.ucsd.EDU (Tony Meadors) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: peddling soft"wares" Message-ID: <662@sdics.ucsd.EDU> Date: 8 Dec 88 07:18:50 GMT Reply-To: meadors@sdics.UUCP (Tony Meadors) Distribution: comp.software-eng Organization: U.C. San Diego, Institute for Cognitive Science Lines: 17 I hope the semi-greedy nature of this posting doesn't offend too many. Just go with the ever-popular 'n' key... A colleague and myself have been developing some nice software gizmos on the weekends: mostly pc applications. Now we are beginning to wonder how to market our little wonders. The options are somewhat obvious (direct advertising, approaching software houses...) but we are both completely naive of the marketing world. I would really appreciate any suggestions or personal experiences that might be helpful. The basic question is a simple, "how do small software concerns peddle their wares?" tonyM