<html><head><style id="axi-htmleditor-style" type="text/css">p { margin: 0px; }</style></head><body style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: fixed;">A few ideas:<div><br></div><div>Sell i3detroit a few kits, and we'll build a class or just a tinker session around it. Our blog has decent readership, and the more places are talking about it, the better. </div><div><br></div><div>Publish the design files. Make sure to put some diyode blurb in the silk. When the Chinese copies come out, they'll reproduce that just like the bogus "made in italy" on the arduinos. See it as free promotion!</div><div><br></div><div>Kickstarter-whore for a production run of a few hundred kits or whatever. It started as a funding platform, but I think people are realizing that it's an advertising base, as well. Why not ride that? Also, this will force you to collect a bunch of photos and documentation and actually tell the story, just pixels away from the "click here to transact business" button, which is something a lot of projects founder for the lack of.</div><div><br></div><div>-Nate-</div><div><br>On Sat, 12/15/2012 01:15 PM, Simon Clark <simon@zebraspot.com> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(00, 00, 204); padding-left: 4px; margin-left: 16px;"><div style="null; null;"><meta http="http" equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Back in April, our space started working on an arduino shield to help teach programming and electronics to novices. We blogged about our prototype back then, and received enough love and interest from the internet to convince us that there was demand enough to offer kits.<div><br><div>Now that we have kits available for sale, we're struggling with how to promote it on a hackerspace budget. It's not as newsworthy to blogs like the adafruit blog and hackaday, I assume since it's a product, not a prototype. I suck at marketing, and was hoping someone else in the hackerspace community might have dealt with something similar.</div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Simon</div><br><div apple="apple" content="content" edited="true">
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