Abitrary said:
I think you are being a bit 'louche' with your new thread Bonj. You think that it will run and run purely on the strength of your brand.
And compete with 'Tea?'. Be careful. You haven't done any marketing.
If I go to the Tea thread, I get a no-bullshit cup of tea and biscuit, with decent people from a demographic I'm comfortable with.
What is *your* marketing plan mate? Please don't tell me it's Coffee Because It's Bonjes?
Because people won't buy it.
My marketing strategy is as thus:
if it takes off, and I'm not expecting it to overtake any time soon, but even if it
accelerates faster than 'Tea?', then it will simply prove that coffee is a better drink than tea.
It if dies of death, it will simply prove that the
idea of virtualising coffee/tea is a misnomer.
In other words, for 'coffee' it can't lose. It's the best of both worlds - if it doesn't take off, it means that what TYPE of virtual drink it's supposedly about is completely irrelevant to the success of the thread, but if it DOES take off, it can only be because coffee is a better drink on the grounds that the 'Tea?' thread already has past and present success going for it.
I see 'Tea?' as a bit of a greasy spoon, with lots of builders having bacon sarnies, whereas 'coffee' is a more upmarket establishment altogether, where the inhabitants set the world to rights rather than simply natter meaningless 1small talk.
