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How Much Can be Raised ?

Interesting question. How many people can we get the word to?
Everyone who reads blogs is doing so on a computer ( I guess?). Almost all computers are attatched to printers. So some 90 % of our readers are targets for this fund raising. Each printer uses 2 - 4 ink jets a year on average.
While there's something like 300 million ink jets out there thrown away each year, of course we're not going to get that many, not even a fraction.
But how many readers do we have ( all of the Spirit of America supporters together ) ? I simply don't know. Some tens of thousands ? hundreds of thousands ? Not sure we can really tell : how many of Michele's readers are also Dean's or John's ? ( All bets are off if Instapundit comes on board .)
One thing I am sure of though. I don't think it will be difficult to persuade those readers to mail in something they probably throw away anyway. I also think that having shaken down readers for monetary support so recently, there will be a sigh of relief at being able to support in another way.
Anyway, to give this a target, $ 100,000 over the next 90 days. If they're all of the expensive type of cartridge, that's asking 5,000 people ( we have that many readers, yes ? ) to send in 4 each. Or to be a little more realistic about average prices, asking 10,000 people to send in 4 each.
Do we think that's a tough target ? Or an easy one ? Or fair ? What ?

May 9, 2004 in How Much Can be Raised ? | Permalink

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