Re: Marketing your LUG (Local User Group)

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is IBM purposely trying to hide the new users from the old users?  Is it 
possible the new users have different goals and needs than us old legacy 
people?
rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The article at
> http://www.tinyurl.com/chl7z
>
> Says "...The reality of the situation is that we’re getting thousands of 
> new customers moving onto the iSeries platform every year."
> Who are those new customers and how do you get them interested in your 
> LUG?
> Will IBM do a mass mailing for you for all their iSeries customers in your 
> locale?  This way, they protect their customer list while the LUG still 
> gets their word out.
> It's not like there are any IBM reps in the area.  I've talked to some 
> local BP's and they've stumbled into shops they didn't even know had an 
> iSeries (back when Domino was selling iSeries like flapjacks.  Who knows, 
> maybe it still is.).
> Rob Berendt