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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Strutinan" data-source="post: 584559" data-attributes="member: 9267">I released a teaser of the Psionics Companion, everything through Chapter 1, and it was the best marketting decision I could have made!  It was also the WORST management decision I could have made.The teaser kept disappointed customers to a minimum, while giving "maybe" customers a chance to go "wow" and zip over to RPGNow.com to buy the full thing.  In that light: VERY good decision.Unfortunately the teaser aslo hogs up so much of my bandwidth at Geocities that my website goes down on a fierly regular basis now.  It wasn't so noticible before, when I was just getting started.  Now that I've done 10 times the traffic in the past month than I did in the previous TWO YEARS, the site is going down every other day.  In that light: INCREDIBLY bad decision.The lesson everybody take from this?  Release teasers, it is a wonderful way to promote customer friendliness, just make sure that your site can handle the resulting upswing in traffic!</blockquote>