From: davereed@wam.umd.edu (Michael Robert Bromery)
Subject: Advertising Campaign
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:29:58 GMT

   Well, while a good representative from Commodore is here, I would like
to ask a question that I only want John Campbell to answer, please.
   The good news is that I'm starting to see a lot of new things for Amiga
come out recently. It seems like the magazines, mainly Amiga ones, are 
beginning to have more and more things to talk about. I was wondering how
the U.S. advertising campaign is comming along. I haven't seen any 
commercializing done for years. The wierd part is that I see loads of 
potential to hold an even tighter grip on the U.S. market by turning people's
heads to see a new commercial. I understand that preparations on this stuff
takes time, and see a reason to want to wait for significant AGA titles to
be released first before telling the world about it. 
    It seems more and more that the reason more U.S. citizens don't have the
machine is that they don't know about it. I got my machine from word of
mouth and just decided to try out his amiga for a while to see what it was
like. I can say I was kind of lucky, for Maryland maybe one of the states
with the fewest amiga owners in it. Apparently, other cities in Maryland
seem to have more fellow owners. It was just that the major cities I was
in didn't have many. 
    Operating systems under 2.0 and up seem to feel much more professional
than the 1.x rom machines and now, only 2.0 and up is being sold. I'd figure
the AGA machines and A4000s would sell more here than anywhere else because
of the demand. People here don't hardly want a system without a harddrive.
People here would increase the AGA-HD market so high that the software
designers will be very interested in coding more and more with support for
those systems. 

   -- This is no complaint. This is a friendly letter with friendly advise.
    A letter that tries to state some advantages that come by my statement.
   -- I ask for no flames, no replies other than to I am refering the
     letter to. 
   -- I'll send another letter like this to commodore, except it will
        not have any please don't flame comments for I know I'll get 
        the decent behavior that I want from them.
  
     Ok, to sum this up. People here would want more of the best you can
serve them at the moment for they have interest in systems that come with
so much already built in for a decent price. ex. A1200-HD and A4000.
They would be willing to buy, the first to jump in for expansion hardware
on those systems, and still be happy with the money they saved with the
hardware included. I could see a large potential here. Building cool hardware
has never been a problem. Commercials can generate some serious revenue.
If people don't know about it, they won't buy it, plain and simple. Most
computer magazines here hardly know about Commodore now, some Tv publicity
can go a long way in that case. 

    I've heard that Commodore may be already starting on this as well, I sure
hope it's true. I -- for one -- love it when computers have competition.
More than anything, one can call me a capitalist. I just want this system to
have a fair crack in the industry over here, especially with the specs I've
seen in the new or higher end systems.

    --- Sincerely,
                   Michael Bromery.
     Email: davereed@wam.umd.edu

P.S. -- I wrote this letter to the newsgroup because my account cannot 
     figure out your email address, so this is the only way I can
     contact you.