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Re: news from Google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bret Clark)
Mon Dec 21 17:44:55 2009
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:44:16 -0500
From: Bret Clark <bclark@spectraaccess.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
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Scott Howard wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>wrote:
>
>
>>> CSR isnt $0 ROI. Unless they're doing it wrong.
>>>
>> I said essentially. If you think they're making even 1% of $20M, one of us
>> confused. I'll admit I do not do marketing, so maybe it's me.
>>
>>
>
> The tax write-off alone is going to be significantly more than 1%...
>
> Scott
>
Bingo! We have a winner.
Having been a executive at several "for profit" large companies in the
past, at the end of the day anything that we did for charity was always
justified by the "what do we get out of it?" question. If we couldn't
answer that question we moved on to the next charity.
Bret
