Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Improving LibreOffice download numbers on download sites

Hello Jay,

AFAICT LibreOffice is already listed there.  The question being then: what can we do to grow our 
brand awareness?

That is what we try to do in various waysn we do have contacts with other sites though,  not with 
them. What do you suggest?  Should we talk to download.com ? I think their listing reflects the 
brand awareness of their users more than their own.

Cheers,

Charles. 

On 25 mai 2014 08:26:10 CEST, Jay Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jean-Francois,
>
> Yes i do agree with you that libO should never link to such website
> that
> would repackage libO, which download.com and filehippo.com
> (softpedia.com as well) do not do. On these sites, OpenOffice and
> Kingsoft Office are ranked higher than LibO.
>
> Jay Philips
>
> On 05/25/2014 09:45 AM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote:
> > Jay,
> >
> > Le 25/05/2014 04:52, Jay Philips a écrit :
> > > I think the marketing team should come up with a strategy improve
> > > libreoffice's popularity on download sites like download.com and
> > > filehippo.com, as many users discover new software from sites like
> this.
> > > I've seen some software makers direct downloads of their software to
> > > such sites to increase its popularity.
> > The problem I see with such thirdparty websites (at least here in
> > France) is that they often repackage the software they offer for
> > download. The repackaging unfortunately adds some unwanted "goodies",
> > such as IE toolbars or Firefox addons. If the user starts the install
> in
> > automatic mode (almost all do), these things are silently installed
> and
> > suddenly the user PC becomes cluttered with what I consider
> virus-like
> > items.
> >
> > As a hotline employee, I very often get questions about the PCs being
> > suddenly veeeeery slow or some unwanted websites opening when
> starting IE.
> > So, unless these sites change their way of "promoting" software, I
> > wouldn't go this route at all.
> >
> > YMMV
>
>
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