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TitleLooking for ideas and suggestions
BodyFrom: "Kevin Cox"

Dear wwwtools reader,

The City University of Hong Kong has supported the wwwtools newsletter
since its inception in 1998 and will continue to support it.
The following small questionnaire is to gauge your reactions and get
your thoughts and ideas on generating income to further continue and
develop the newsletter. Any income generated would be primarily used to further develop the newsletter and conduct research for you. If you
could reply to this email with your ideas and comments it would be most appreciated.

1. The newsletter will remain free to all but people would be asked for subscriptions. Would you be likely to donate anything and what do you think would be a reasonable amount to ask?



2. We would like to encourage annual subscriptions from institutions. We were thinking along the lines
* K-12 institutions - $US50
* Post- secondary institutions - $US150
* Commercial/Corporate/Non Profits - $US300
Each subscribing institution would be entitled to one topic to be
researched each year and would encourage their staff/students/members to subscribe to the newsletter.




3. There would be a sponsorship offer of $1000 US available to
institutions/organisations which would entitle them to five research
topics and their logo, some text and a link on the website.




4. Each newsletter would have a text ad on an appropriate subject
(conference promotion, book promotion, course promotion). Would you
object to small text ads in the newsletter?



5. Do you know any institution, organisation or company who may be
interested in ads to people like yourself? The cost will $25 US per ad.



6. We will offer a research facility where topics will be researched
(along the lines of the newsletters) for a cost of $150 US. The format
of reporting on topics researched on demand will be tighter than the
scattergun style of newsletters - and more geared to the particular
client's expectations.



7. Can you think of any other ways we might be able to obtain income to help keep the newsletter operating.




8. Are there ways you would like to see the newsletter develop? Do you
have any ideas on ways it could be made more useful to yourself and your colleagues.




Thanks in anticipation,

Kevin Cox





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