ASP: The Association of Shareware Professionals
The name sounds a little archaic in this day and age, even though the “shareware” industry is just as alive as ever. It’s just that they don’t use that term much anymore. Even so, I’ve been meaning to join up for a while because there are some things that are easier to figure out when you have a peer network. A prime example would be choosing a secure content delivery system.
The dues of $100 per year is in that “neither large nor small” category, so it’s not a big risk. I signed Zeta Centauri up this month and have been reading the parts of the huge archive of newsgroup posts that are relevant to my business. There’s a lot to digest, but I feel smarter already. I don’t think it’ll be that hard to extract $100 of value from a membership in the ASP.
