RE: [isp-marketing] AOL Layoffs

[Alex Goldman <agoldman@...>]

A year ago I ran the numbers and concluded that not even AOL can afford to
advertise like AOL:

AOL, Feeble Giant

With AOL advertising on the Superbowl and mailing out so many free CDs,
perhaps you've wondered how it can afford to throw so much money away. Maybe
it can't.

http://www.isp-planet.com/investor/2004/feeble.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Muto [mailto:info@...]
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 10:09 AM
To: isp-marketing@isp-marketing.com
Subject: Re: [isp-marketing] AOL Layoffs


First off, it was not hard to become a dialup provider, when at the time
they had 5-million users at their disposal to market to and IPO cash to
flood the mailboxes of millions of others with CD's. They lost broadband
co-branding to Yahoo, i.e., SBC, Verizon and of late with BellSouth sometime
in late 2006. Something they may not recover from and need to move on.

They have begun (finally woke up) their transition to become a pure-play
content provider and now are getting attention from others to cash in on it.
People want their choice for connectivity and their choice of content. It is
in their best interest to stick to what they do best.


Frank Muto
President/Ceo
FSM Marketing Group, Inc



----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Waltzer"

> AOL was the first provider of any magnitude and can not sustain the
> competition from free and friendlier providers.
>
> I still have my AOL account but that is because I am too lazy to cancel
the
> automatic debit from my checking account.  AOL is very good for newbie's
and
> those frozen in the 20th century.
>
> It is not about jobs going overseas...those that complain about jobs going
> overseas are frozen in time as well.
>
> Craig A. Waltzer
> VoIPBlue.com, Inc.


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