Just curious, what benefit would a marketing campaign provide to shareholders? I speculate that there is no shortage of people willing to buy ASICMINER hardware (at this point, at least.)
I think the only thing that a marketing
campaign could do, we also include having a store front, where people could buy machines with say, credit cards. I guarantee that if credit cards were accepted, there would be a great deal more ASIC's sold by AM. Purchasing in BTC is a limiting factor for some. But with that of course, comes risk. But still, there is enough word of mouth, that paying for ads still may not benefit because they would probably sell as fast as they could make them at that point.
I wouldnt feel good with AM accepting credit card payments. Thats way too risky. Similar to getting paid with paypal. But there are other payment options that dont have this risk. Those could be used. But more important than this would be a shop. Something official where intereste buyers can inform shortly and then buying. BFL should be a good example how it could work.
But then again... friedcat and team most probably will work hard all day. Spending time on secondary things will most probably draw workpower from things that can raise the dividend even higher.