>Find an imm who is even remotely interested in utilizing the
>marketing skills of the volunteers in the playerbase. Much of
>what you're suggesting has been suggested OVER and OVER and it
>always fails because no one on the CF staff is interested in
>helping you. "If you want to do it, do it yourself." That's
>what I'm always told.

As has been said over and over, there is nobody whose strength is marketing or is interested in marketing, and I can say from my personal perspective, I wouldn't even know where to begin. I don't know enough to even be useful in the conversation, much less be the decision maker shelling out some form of budget.

And has also been said...yes...you don't need to be an Immortal to promote/market Carrion Fields. The gentleman looking at podcasting is a perfect example of a way to successfully market CF without ANY immortal intervention.

>There has to be a reform to the way the CF volunteer staff is
>created, as you say. The current system only creates coders,
>area writers and role players. There is a customer service and
>marketing side to ANY organization that is obviated by the
>current system. The imms are unwilling to move on it, to my
>knowledge. I'm baffled by it, but I respect their decision to
>run (or run into the ground) the game that they have created.

The opportunity is there for a customer service, marketing piece, but nobody is volunteering for it, and I'm not about to push anyone to do something they aren't interested in.