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Old 08-15-2010, 12:08 PM   #60
walt526
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Originally Posted by Chubulor View Post
What makes you so sure? If it's not true, then no one in the forums could be sure it's not true.
Well sure, the only person that I know for a fact is *NOT* an enTourage employee is myself. But based on the tenor of the exchanges that I've had (which based on 20 years of experience having internet discussions) I'm fairly certain that all of the regular posters are unique, consistent personalities. It would be incredibly difficult for a single person to pretend to be multiple personalities. And I'm quite sure that Boris is not an eDGe employee posing as a user since he's too conspicuous (he's just a guy who likes his eDGe device and has a lot of free time on his hands). Moreover, often times the advice in the "should I buy an eDGe"-type posts is not completely positive. On the other hand, I have a hard time seeing how it would be cost-effective for some sort of viral marketing to have more than one person working on it... and in any event, most viral marketing strategies are centered around generating buzz to increase product awareness in the market. Anyone reading these forums is obviously already aware of the eDGe, so trolling the forums posing as users would have limited potential return.

I could be wrong, but the just doesn't make sense to me as a marketing strategy. If they wanted to put resources behind generating buzz for the eDGe, then they'd be getting much more bang-for-their-buck by talking up the eDGe on other forums where there is some reasonable likelihood of being read by a customer who has never heard of the eDGe.

Last edited by walt526; 08-15-2010 at 02:14 PM. Reason: typo