I've been a Netflix customer for quite some time and I've enjoyed the service immensely. But I wonder...
Why do you keep sending me "Free Trial" offers on the inside flap of each envelope? Why do you keep preaching to the choir?
Even if I had 100 friends, they'd be so sick of me handing them "Free Trial" coupons that they'd stop talking to me. Why not subsidize some of MY rental fee or the number of movies I can rent by offering your PREMIUM advertising space to companies like Best Buy or Circuit City. Or, let the advertisers offset the cost of purchasing a larger quantity of DVDs and remove LONG and SHORT waits altogether.
It seems so obvious to me that the envelop flap should be used for advertising - ANYTHING OTHER THAN A NETFLIX product. I would love to see a coupon for $2.00 off any DVD with the purchase of any other. How about $2.00 off a pizza? How about $2.00 off a movie ticket? Why not co-op the envelope space and sell to local area grocery stores or whatever? Use your imagination!
Use the back of the envelop flap for something that is going to benefit the CUSTOMER. Advertisers are constantly looking for new places to advertise. Here you go, a perfect space.
And when you're all done absorbing this idea, you can send me a check or a job offer. I'm a simple man.
Buy an iMac and a Digital Camera - encourage the kids to explore their own creativity on a machine designed for personal expression.
For games, no worries, Flash and Java (read games.Yahoo.com) games play great.
For word processing, Appleworks with a great PDF engine native to the entire MacOSX experience.
For your own personal play time - dual boot with Linux and MacOSX - or, Virtual PC w/ RedHat 7.3.
For cost, consider long-term maintenance (or, in this case, ease-of-), stability, life-span (find a Mac geek, ask how many of their old Macs are still running useful apps), and no more Microsoft licensing BS.
Or, if you just want to skip it all together... Run linux for the machine and buy a GameCube or Playstation 2 (or, for that matter, a DreamCast running Linux and/or any games you want).
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I've been a Netflix customer for quite some time and I've enjoyed the service immensely. But I wonder...
Why do you keep sending me "Free Trial" offers on the inside flap of each envelope? Why do you keep preaching to the choir?
Even if I had 100 friends, they'd be so sick of me handing them "Free Trial" coupons that they'd stop talking to me. Why not subsidize some of MY rental fee or the number of movies I can rent by offering your PREMIUM advertising space to companies like Best Buy or Circuit City. Or, let the advertisers offset the cost of purchasing a larger quantity of DVDs and remove LONG and SHORT waits altogether.
It seems so obvious to me that the envelop flap should be used for advertising - ANYTHING OTHER THAN A NETFLIX product. I would love to see a coupon for $2.00 off any DVD with the purchase of any other. How about $2.00 off a pizza? How about $2.00 off a movie ticket? Why not co-op the envelope space and sell to local area grocery stores or whatever? Use your imagination!
Use the back of the envelop flap for something that is going to benefit the CUSTOMER. Advertisers are constantly looking for new places to advertise. Here you go, a perfect space.
And when you're all done absorbing this idea, you can send me a check or a job offer. I'm a simple man.
Sincerely,
Andrew
Just my $.02.
Buy an iMac and a Digital Camera - encourage the kids to explore their own creativity on a machine designed for personal expression.
For games, no worries, Flash and Java (read games.Yahoo.com) games play great.
For word processing, Appleworks with a great PDF engine native to the entire MacOSX experience.
For your own personal play time - dual boot with Linux and MacOSX - or, Virtual PC w/ RedHat 7.3.
For cost, consider long-term maintenance (or, in this case, ease-of-), stability, life-span (find a Mac geek, ask how many of their old Macs are still running useful apps), and no more Microsoft licensing BS.
Or, if you just want to skip it all together... Run linux for the machine and buy a GameCube or Playstation 2 (or, for that matter, a DreamCast running Linux and/or any games you want).
That's it for me.
-treeandorange