
       
       
                               PAID ADVERTISING
          SPECIAL DISCOUNTS FOR SHAREWARE AUTHORS AND COMPUTER CLUBS!
              WE ALSO ACCEPT ADVERTISING FROM COMMERCIAL VENDORS!

       

            **************** Super Shareware System ***************
  
       The Super Shareware System (SSS) is a comprehensive system for 
       shareware authors, enabling them to track customers, prospects, 
       distributors, contacts, products, sales, and expenses.  SSS 
       allows you to quickly and easily target mailings to customers, 
       prospects, or distributors using the mailing label or postcard 
       options.  SSS creates 24 reports, some of which include: 
       Customer, Distributor, and Contact Listings and Directories, 
       Geographic Summaries for Customers and Distributors, Income over 
       a specified time period with subtotals by day, month, or year, 
       Expenses subtotaled by date or expense category, Balance Sheet, 
       Payments Due, Tickler, and more.  Use the Querying capability of 
       SSS with the postcard, label, and report options for further 
       customization.  SSS allows you to easily enter customer 
       registrations and to print invoices with accompanying labels.  
       Import data in dBASE, Delimited, or SDF formats.  Export data 
       for use with existing software.  SSS was designed specifically 
       for shareware authors.  It's power and flexibility make it a 
       tool that most shareware authors will not want to be without! 

       Send $5.00 for a trial disk to:  PractiComp 
                      6490 Dubois Rd.  Delaware, OH 43015-8931 
                        614-548-5043  Compuserve 71043,3706 
      
       (end of advertising, next follows general information and ad 
       rates...)

       Why advertising in SMS? Just like a magazine: to keep costs of a 
       good publication low for the final subscribers and users! This 
       shareware program will be seen by THOUSANDS of authors and 
       distributors. It is a listed file in the Compuserve Databased 
       Advisor forum (GO DBA), file of the month, PC-SIG file, Public 
       Brand file, New England Software Library file. It is mailed to 
       many distributors, shareware authors and subscribers quarterly. 
       It is available on many BBS systems throughout America. It is 
       uniquely suited to your advertising in a specialized software 
       market! 

       Who should advertise? Shareware distributors with a message. 

       Change of address, new phone lines, new author BBS submission 
       systems. Requests to make registered copies available. Requests 
       for unique shareware programs which do not exist. New in 
       business of distribution and want to stand out from the crowd. 
       Unique specialization (games, bible, graphics, etc). Going out 
       of business (stop sending those files!) Can do disk duping 
       cheaply for authors. Can do direct mail marketing for authors. 
       Want to buy registered customer mailing lists from authors. New 
       author incentive programs. Request for author addresses. Trying 
       to find someone to help review disks for your printed catalog! 

       Who should advertise? Computer clubs with a message. 

       Want to build up or discontinue library. Want specialized 
       software (wordperfect SIG wants lotsa macros! CAD SIG looking 
       for super shareware package of drafting symbols) New club 
       building membership. Unique club overseas with international 
       address. Shareware librarian looking for someone to catalog 
       those thousands of files (who better than a shareware author?) 
       Club wanting to STOP shareware submissions (don't have a library 
       and going nuts trying to figure out what to do with all the 
       disks coming in the mail.) Club with restrictions (only want 
       files on high density disks.) Change of officers (stop sending 
       disks to Jane Doe who left 4 years ago! New shareware librarian 
       is John Smith) 

       Who should advertise? Shareware authors with a message. 

       New program or version announcement. Unique program directed at 
       other shareware authors as a vertical market. Trying to put 
       together group of shareware authors for a large special project. 
       Trying to stand out from crowd with announcement which other 
       distributors and clubs will see in addition to your main mailing 
       of disks. Urgent virus warning. Have large mailing list of 
       customers to sell to shareware distributors. Looking for job in 
       software industry (print my resume verbatim!) Want temporary job 
       on call to do programming, data entry, telephone marketing, or 
       other job you can do out of your home with a phone, modem, FAX 
       or Federal Express connection. 

       Who should advertise? Equipment manufacturers, magazines, 
       commercial banks employment agencies seeking programmers or 
       temporary help with computer intensive projects. Software houses 
       needing a temporary programmer on call by FAX, modem or Federal 
       Express! 

       Selling equipment directed to shareware market. Computers, disk 
       duping machines, documentation printing shops, shrink wrappers, 
       label making hardware and software, accounting packages, direct 
       mail marketing systems, magazine which has small classified ads 
       in back which shareware authors could use, banks which would 
       like to open visa card accounts for budding shareware authors or 
       allow shareware authors to take visa card numbers from customers 
       (open a vendor account relationship.) Hardware vendors wishing 
       to sell specialized cards for PC's. Mail order modem vendors. 
       commercial software companies selling C libraries, clipper 
       libraries, custom compilers which shareware programmers might 
       appreciate. 
       
       Small business looking for a programmer to revise accounting 
       system or CAD system. Business looking for someone to do data 
       entry and have results modem shipped to company. Employment 
       agency seeking programmers typists, accountants or others with a 
       computer literate background. (shareware authors make great 
       temporary employees - why not hire a productive and affordable 
       shareware author who lives 1,000 miles away when his/her work 
       can be shipped to your client by modem, FAX or Federal express?) 
       (P.S. - the author of this package maintains files with mailing 
       addresses and phone numbers of shareware authors and the types 
       of software they program!) 

       

         ADVERTISING RATE CARD/COST OF ADVERTISING IN THIS PUBLICATION
          SPECIAL DISCOUNTS FOR SHAREWARE AUTHORS AND COMPUTER CLUBS!

       

       You may submit either a single ASCII text screen or a small COM 
       or EXE program which displays an animated/color message. 
       Consider carefully computers which may not have color graphics 
       cards and allow for both monochrome and color selecting within 
       your program if using a COM or EXE file. 

                       Commercial vendor/general public 
          (Shareware distributor, commercial vendors, general public) 

               ---> One full screen, ASCII monochrome text file 
                    $150 per quarterly issue, $550 per year 

              ---> Small COM or EXE program (20K in size or less) 
                   $300 per quarterly issue, $1,100 per year 
            
                                  DISCOUNTS: 
                Computer club:  Use 25% discount on above rates 

              Shareware author:  Use 35% discount on above rates 
       
