Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 10:27:45 -0500 From: Sean Michael Whipkey <highway@cstone.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD at LinuxWorld. Message-ID: <38A035F1.CC2DEFEF@cstone.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002080859360.1100-100000@bytor.rush.net>
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Pat Lynch wrote: > As the little throngs of young NYLUG members told me "We don;t > care about BSD, we just want our pictures taken with *them*", which tells > me it really didn't exactly have the desired effects. Did it attract > people to near the booth? Yes. Did they stick around to ask questions? No. I've gone to a number of cons for role-playing games, working for various companies, and none of them have had "booth babes", despite the big computer companies doing it at places like GenCon. I particularly liked the reason Pinnacle Entertainment Group said that they didn't hire them... "Do they bring more people to the booth? Yes, but we pack it without them. Are people more likely to buy stuff? No, they just get their picture taken, block traffic, and keep our customers out. Are people more likely to buy if there's an attractive, approachable, and KNOWLEDGABLE woman working the cashier? Yes." Of course, that's paraphrased. :-) SeanMike -- SeanMike Whipkey - highway@cstone.net - http://www.cstone.net Engineering Department, Cornerstone Networks, Inc. - 804.817.7000 "If you are going to say IMHO, you could at least -pretend- to be humble." - Donald Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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