promotesoftware.net

[sphinx]

Any ideas about those people?!

http://www.promotesoftware.net/software_marketing.html

[Omega]

:D Well, I didn't know about them till you posted, so whatever they're doing, it's working.

[terin]

Never heard of em either.

-Joe

[ErikH2000]

Hmm. The page leaves me with a bad impression. It seems they will do a lot for you cheaply, but maybe botch it up along the way. And some of those numbers look way too high, like are their really anywhere close to 75,000 media contacts out there to submit game press releases too?

What do you think of the value of sending an unsolicited game CD or printed materials to press contacts? There was an article (http://gillen.cream.org/wordpress_html/?page_id=693) written by a game reviewer where he recommended it. I wonder how much it increases chances of coverage? I guess it's like deciding how much money to put into ads, where you want to make back a proportionate amount from resulting sales. But it seems much harder to me to judge, because tracking people coming to the site from print coverage is impossible or very hard.

-Erik