#IRS regs
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Kevin,
Your IRS disc sounds like the sort of thing I'd be interested in, but, as a
simple consumer, it's way out of my price range. It sounds as though
you're marketting it towards the tax professional.
I hope that you consider a product for the simple consumer like me.
Ideally, I'd like to see the IRS publications and tax code bundled with
TaxCut or TurboTax. I wouldn't think twice about buying something like
that for $75. $200 would probably be too high for me.
Just wanted to give some potential-customer feedback, Dave
David,
We publish an even more specialized disk–New Hampshire law. And
we're up against the chicken/egg problem. If every PC had a CDROM on it we
could go $200, if not $75 (New Hampshire is small, but the laws go back a
long way<g>), but what we're finding is that the law firms end up buying a
new PC and a drive just for our product. Since this is about $3k by the
time it's all settled, it's not an impulse item anyway, and we end up
having to charge a couple K.
We've discussed a discount for small towns (say $0.25/citizen), but
it's the same thing–they have no computer, and no drive, so it still
wouldn't sell.
Frank
David:
Yes, we do market the product to professionals. It sells for the same
price as the equivalent print product.
We have started to enter into alliances with tax prep vendors to byproduct
some of our publication components. Thus far, we have arrangements with
CLR/Fast-Tax and CPAid. We are exploring other potential arrangements for
next tax season.
Thanks for the feedback.
Kevin