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It used to be that when I would fill out one of those magazine surveys for a magazine I wanted to get like Software Development, I'd put in that I was the Chief Purchasing Officer in charge of a budget of $500 million plus, with 10's of thousands of people in my department, with me making the final decisions on hardware and software acquisitions, etc., etc. Does everyone do that? They must get some really beefy demographics to sell to their advertisers. "Each of our 45,000 readers is the CEO of a fortune 500 company, in charge of hundreds of millions of budget." Well, I just did one, but I wasn't really all that interested in the magazine, so I did the opposite. I'm just curious if they'll still send the magazine to someone who doesn't even seem to have the authority approve the purchase of his own latte. :doh: It'll probably backfire and they'll also put me on the get-rich-quick kits mailing list. Matt Gerrans -- modified at 0:58 Tuesday 27th September, 2005
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It used to be that when I would fill out one of those magazine surveys for a magazine I wanted to get like Software Development, I'd put in that I was the Chief Purchasing Officer in charge of a budget of $500 million plus, with 10's of thousands of people in my department, with me making the final decisions on hardware and software acquisitions, etc., etc. Does everyone do that? They must get some really beefy demographics to sell to their advertisers. "Each of our 45,000 readers is the CEO of a fortune 500 company, in charge of hundreds of millions of budget." Well, I just did one, but I wasn't really all that interested in the magazine, so I did the opposite. I'm just curious if they'll still send the magazine to someone who doesn't even seem to have the authority approve the purchase of his own latte. :doh: It'll probably backfire and they'll also put me on the get-rich-quick kits mailing list. Matt Gerrans -- modified at 0:58 Tuesday 27th September, 2005
NHo, I always tell the truth in these things. But I rarely fill these things either.
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It used to be that when I would fill out one of those magazine surveys for a magazine I wanted to get like Software Development, I'd put in that I was the Chief Purchasing Officer in charge of a budget of $500 million plus, with 10's of thousands of people in my department, with me making the final decisions on hardware and software acquisitions, etc., etc. Does everyone do that? They must get some really beefy demographics to sell to their advertisers. "Each of our 45,000 readers is the CEO of a fortune 500 company, in charge of hundreds of millions of budget." Well, I just did one, but I wasn't really all that interested in the magazine, so I did the opposite. I'm just curious if they'll still send the magazine to someone who doesn't even seem to have the authority approve the purchase of his own latte. :doh: It'll probably backfire and they'll also put me on the get-rich-quick kits mailing list. Matt Gerrans -- modified at 0:58 Tuesday 27th September, 2005
Matt Gerrans wrote: I'm just curious if they'll still send the magazine to someone who doesn't even seem to have the authority approve the purchase of his own latte. Depends on the company, but many still will. The low-end balances with the high-end in advertising budgets, and you might strike it rich and buy a whole bunch of stuff from their magazine. I've never lied on mine after the first year of employment... The first year I didn't lie per se, I simply entered information for one-time purchases that were not part of department budgets. I got curious after the first year, and decided to try for some at home and entered my home budget rather than work budget - even created a name for a ficticious home-business (and even wrote that I was a programmer/consultant with almost no budget). I still got most of the magazines and all game/art design ones I tried for. Since then I actually play down my purchase recomendation since I can authorize nothing, only recommend, still... my recomendation carries a lot more weight than it did 15 years ago, so I tend to play it down on the forms. The big budget entries are more likely to generate mass mailings of large priced products (with companies drooling over $$) than the low-budget entries might generate get rich-quick kits. I say be honest, if it doesn't work, you can lie next year. ;) _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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It used to be that when I would fill out one of those magazine surveys for a magazine I wanted to get like Software Development, I'd put in that I was the Chief Purchasing Officer in charge of a budget of $500 million plus, with 10's of thousands of people in my department, with me making the final decisions on hardware and software acquisitions, etc., etc. Does everyone do that? They must get some really beefy demographics to sell to their advertisers. "Each of our 45,000 readers is the CEO of a fortune 500 company, in charge of hundreds of millions of budget." Well, I just did one, but I wasn't really all that interested in the magazine, so I did the opposite. I'm just curious if they'll still send the magazine to someone who doesn't even seem to have the authority approve the purchase of his own latte. :doh: It'll probably backfire and they'll also put me on the get-rich-quick kits mailing list. Matt Gerrans -- modified at 0:58 Tuesday 27th September, 2005
Matt Gerrans wrote: I'm just curious if they'll still send the magazine to someone who doesn't even seem to have the authority approve the purchase of his own latte. Yeah. Heck, they'll send 'em to an unemployed pirate who lists his budget as $0 and his job title as "Resident Moron"... or so i hear... :~
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Matt Gerrans wrote: I'm just curious if they'll still send the magazine to someone who doesn't even seem to have the authority approve the purchase of his own latte. Yeah. Heck, they'll send 'em to an unemployed pirate who lists his budget as $0 and his job title as "Resident Moron"... or so i hear... :~
I don't know. I told the truth and they sent me a response saying I didn't qualify for the 'free' subscriptions My articles BlackDice
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It used to be that when I would fill out one of those magazine surveys for a magazine I wanted to get like Software Development, I'd put in that I was the Chief Purchasing Officer in charge of a budget of $500 million plus, with 10's of thousands of people in my department, with me making the final decisions on hardware and software acquisitions, etc., etc. Does everyone do that? They must get some really beefy demographics to sell to their advertisers. "Each of our 45,000 readers is the CEO of a fortune 500 company, in charge of hundreds of millions of budget." Well, I just did one, but I wasn't really all that interested in the magazine, so I did the opposite. I'm just curious if they'll still send the magazine to someone who doesn't even seem to have the authority approve the purchase of his own latte. :doh: It'll probably backfire and they'll also put me on the get-rich-quick kits mailing list. Matt Gerrans -- modified at 0:58 Tuesday 27th September, 2005
Matt Gerrans wrote: Does everyone do that? No, never have and wouldn't even consider it.
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