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From: rosso@roscoe.csd.sgi.com (Ross Oliver)
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Re: Radio Station
Date: 9 Jan 93 00:45:16 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1993Jan8.163825.4495@odin.corp.sgi.com>, labson@borneo.corp.sgi.com (Joel Labson) writes:
|> 1) Anybody know how can one start his/her own radio station, what's
|> involved, how much, etc..??????? where to get inquiries ?????

There is a great article in this month's Inc. magazine about two
entrepenuers who are trying to turn around a small FM radio station.
Lots of good info about the radio business.  One thing they mention
is that radio stations are generally declining in value, so it would
be cheaper to buy an existing station that try to start a new one.

|> 2) How much it cost for an air time??????

One figure mentioned in the article was $16 per 30-second spot.

I highly recommend Inc. magazine for anyone who is involved in or
contemplating a small business.  Lots of useful information.  I
especially like the case studies.


Ross Oliver
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Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs,misc.jobs.misc,atl.jobs
From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
Subject: Commissioned Magazine Ad Rep job available
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 23:15:07 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.

I am looking for an advertising rep to sell advertising for my 
high technology high performance magazine, _Performance Engineering_ (TM).

We are too small and too new to interest rep agencies so I'm looking
for an individual who can do this part-time during the day.  This is
pure commission and the commission rate is 20% of actual sales.
You will be required to install a business phone at your expense
that is listed in the name of Performance Engineering Magazine.
Sales will be by phone to businesses only (no phone soliciting to individuals.)
We will provide a list of prospects but you will be responsible for 
prospecting beyond that. Knowledge of the automotive high performance market 
will be most useful, as will be prior phone sales experience. 
In your reply to this message, please outline how you would go about
establishing yourself and what you would expect from us.  

If someone is looking for work that can be done at home, this is it.
This is an opportunity to enter into what appears to be the lucrative 
field of ad repping.  The industry press estimates that over 500 new
magazine titles appear each year and many of them need ad reps.
The established rep firms don't want to represent a title until it
is big enough not to need them.  Familiar story.  I am willing
to permit a bit of a learning curve which will permit you to 
learn the ropes.  My magazine is not large enough to need a full time
rep so you may take on other clients as you learn.

Anyone who is interesting in seeing the magazine may send their
postal address to perform@dixie.com for a free sample.  You should
receive an acknowledgement of your mail.  Please do NOT respond to that 
address if you're interested in this position.  Reply to this message or 
directly to jgd@dixie.com.

Thanks,

John
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Performance Engineering Magazine(TM) | Interested in high tech and computers? 
Marietta, Ga                         | Send ur snail-mail address to 
jgd@dixie.com                        | perform@dixie.com for a free sample mag
Need Usenet public Access in Atlanta?  Write Me for info on Dixie.com.
From: "mike halperin" <mike.halperin@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: information brokering
Date: 10 Jan 93 23:51:49 EST
Reply-To: "mike halperin" <mike.halperin@channel1.com>
Distribution: misc
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

>  I know that the subject of information brokering has come up before, but
>  I seem to have caught the tail end of the last round of discussions.  I
>  was wondering if anyone archived the articles about Information Brokering
>  and would take the time to mail them to me.  I'd appreciate it.

I'm interested in the same!  Thanks.

Mike Halperin

 * DeLuxe2/386 1.25 #455sa * 
--
Channel 1 (R)   Cambridge, MA

Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: davej@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (David F. Juraschek)
Subject: Re: Where to buy bigmOuth voicemail card
Organization: George Mason University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:33:45 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.181601.26371@newshost.lanl.gov> hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) writes:
>Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
>Path: gmuvax2!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!ilmen!hutch
>From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
>Subject: Where to buy bigmOuth voicemail card
>Message-ID: <1993Jan4.181601.26371@newshost.lanl.gov>
>Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov
>Reply-To: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov
>Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
>Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:16:01 GMT
>Lines: 14

>This is embarassing, but I can't find a previously recommended source for
>Talking Technologies bigmOuth voicemail card for the pc.  I know I can buy
>it direct from them but that's at full retail and I know it's available from
>"somewhere" for $50 less plus free shipping.

>If anybody knows where to buy this thing from, please advise.  Thanks!
>---

>___________________________ John "HUTCH" Hutchinson _________________________
>_________________ Fair Dinkum Technologies     Member - IAAD  _______________
>________________ "No worries, mate... it's from Fair Dinkum!" _______________
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Try Home Automation Laboratories 1-800-HOME-LAB.  They have an excellent
price.  (I'm a satisfied customer)

-Dave
*
The views expressed above do not represent the opinions or any
endorsement by George Mason University or it's affiliates.

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         davej@gmuvax.gmu.edu 
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Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: larryhow@austin.ibm.com ()
Subject: No FICA for Scorp shareholders
Originator: larryhow@larryhow.austin.ibm.com
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:58:42 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin


I understand that S-corp shareholders don't have to pay FICA taxes (social
security) on income distributions.  But if they draw a salary from the
corporation they do.  Is this true?

Has anyone had any experience with this or does the IRS frown upon taking
distributions and no salary from an S-corp.


Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: "Gary A. Woodward" <p00140@psilink.com>
Subject: Re: Need info on a patent company
Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:34:01 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink-DOS (3.3)

>DATE:   Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:44:44 GMT
>FROM:   Chet Sehgal <csehgal@encore.com>
>
>There was a discussion on patents on the newsgroup recently. Does anyone 
>have any first hand experience with "Advanced Patent Services"? One of my 
>friends feels he has a good idea and has already had the above company
>do the initial patent search and market survey for him for a fee of $200.
>I think they have done a good job. Now they are asking for a fee (I don't 
>remember the exact numbers, but they are close) in the range $4900-$7900 for 
>filing the patent. The fee my friend is willing to pay determines the 
>commission they will get when the product sells in the market. The commission 
>starts at 1.5% (if my friend pays $7900 now) and rises to 12% (if he pays 
>$4900) with 4 other options in between. I personally find it strange that 
>there is such a large difference in commission with a difference of just 
>$3000 towards the patent filing fee the company is charging.
>
>Chet
>--
>Chetan Sehgal
>Encore Computer Corporation
>-- 
>
>Chet
>--
>Chetan Sehgal                    +----------------+

Beware!  Why do people continue to pay others a dear price to do 25% of 
the job that they could do with a little effort for themselves.  I would 
like to begin a mailing list discussion for inventors who have and can 
patent and market their ideas themselves.  You will hear from people who 
have done it themselves.  If they are so hot on the product let them pay 
him a license fee and pay for the patent in his name to be taken from 
the royalties later.  You will watch the patent vermin run for darkness.

Regards. 

Gary.
From: a_willisgt@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Re: Radio Station
Date: 9 Jan 93 10:19:33 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

In article <1993Jan8.163825.4495@odin.corp.sgi.com>, labson@borneo.corp.sgi.com (Joel Labson) writes:
> 1) Anybody know how can one start his/her own radio station, what's
> involved, how much, etc..??????? where to get inquiries ?????
 
  I obtained a book from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) about
five years ago entitled 'Building or Buying a Broadcasting Station', or
something close to that... it provided an exemplary overview of the process,
including the decision of whether to build or buy (probably a moot point now -
when I left radio in 1989, the number of available licences was dwindling at a
furious rate).

  Minorities and women receive preferential treatment from the FCC when
applying for a license (even if you buy an existing station, you must still
apply to the FCC to assume ownership of the license).

  The biggest problem with buying a station is the financing... since the onyl
thing a station really 'owns' that's worth anything is it's FCC license, and
since the licence can't be transferred without FCC aprroval (i.e. banks can't
take posession of the license in a foreclosure), most lending institutions are
extremely reluctant to make loans for this kind of purchase.  There are
exceptions, and even a few that specialize in loans of this type - but you'll
need help finding them.  My list is more than five years out of date.

  I would suspect that the NAB still has publications of this type available;
my copy cost about $65 US back then.

   The NAB is located in Washington, DC; that's about all I remember.

Ty Willis
Stephen F. Austin State University
a_willisgt@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
From: paradis@sousa.tay.dec.com (Jim Paradis)
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Re: starting a bookstore
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:46:17 GMT
Reply-To: paradis@sousa.tay.dec.com (Jim Paradis)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation



One reference you might want to look into is a book called "A Manual on
Bookselling".  I don't have the author or ISBN (I'm at work, the book
is at home), but you can probably find it in Books In Print.  It's
really down-to-earth, with all kinds of practical advice on *all* aspects
of the business.

--
Jim Paradis (paradis@sousa.tay.dec.com) 
I try to take one day at a time, but lately several days have attacked at once!

Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: bill@kean.ucs.mun.ca (Bill Garland)
Subject: Re: NEW AD
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:26:51 GMT

In article <2041.347.uupcb@brent.uucp>, rui.ribeiro@brent.uucp (Rui Ribeiro)  writes:
> My wife just got her business permit.  I'd like to run our ad by you.
> Let me know what you think.
> 
> *********** Shira - Amazing Psychic **************
> Now you can know what 1993 has in store for you.
> Romance, Wealth, New Opportunities.
> Your 6 Month Forecast for only $25.00
...
> We welcome all comments.

Well, if you really want my opinion, I think this is a total crock of
shit, and if you actually plan to make money by defrauding people in this
manner, you will end up poorer for it. This type of mystical nonsense has
no place anywhere. On the other hand, you should have known that.
Why do you need to post this to ask opinions? Could you not have
simply asked your wife?

> PS - If you'd like your own forecast, please feel free to use the ad.

This confirms what I thought when I first saw this - you are a phoney.

You did not post this to get honest opinions, you posted it to get
business. This is an ad, not a request to comment on an ad. While I
am not as opposed to advertising on the internet as many people are,
and I think readers should be allowed to engage in commerce or trade,
I believe they should have honest products and services to exchange.
You do not create any values with this crap, you merely seek to steal
from your would be customers.

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From: renz@informix.com (Renz Hoppe)
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Opening a coffeehouse - Any experience?
Date: 8 Jan 93 22:37:47 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
Originator: renz@infmx


Hello Entrepreneurs (and wannabes) -

does anyone out there have any experience with opening/running a coffeehouse?
I am thinking of a place that sells coffee, espressos, lattes, mochas, muffins,
bagels, etc.?

Please respond to:	renz@informix.com

Thanks,

Renz J. Hoppe
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: bill@kean.ucs.mun.ca (Bill Garland)
Subject: Re: Medical Claims Processing
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:33:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.183410.16628@rock.concert.net>, 
	ken@jazz.concert.net (Ken Whitfield) writes:
> 
> I'm seeking information on Medical Claims Processing. 
> Has anyone in netland or know of any individuals who are actually
> making money processing medical claims? All info is welcomed.

Well, in a way, I am. It is not that I have a business and offer
medical claims services to physicians' offices, although there are
companies here in St. John's, Nfld. who do exactly that. I do it
for the medical school on behalf of all doctors employed by the
university, and thereby get paid to do it.

There is, as I understand it, quite an industry out there that does
medical claims processing. In the US there are many companies into it.
This is like EDI (electronic data interchange) for the medical
profession. More and more insurance companies and hmo's are into 
taking electronic claims, as opposed to paper ones. It is more efficient
to operate this way. One clerk can handle many more claims, and can be
shared by a larger number of doctors, when the billing system is on-line.

And, given the free market situation in the US, I don't believe all these
companies would be doing this if they weren't making money.

Is that what you wanted to know?

> Thanks ...

Write or post again if you need more info.

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| look it up in the index file under  | individual rights, no valid    |
| "Index File".                       | reason for government exists." |
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| Bill Garland = bill@kean.ucs.mun.ca |Commercial : Send me your money.|
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Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: tscwhitehead@cc.weber.edu (Clarke Whitehead)
Subject: Re: Form processing
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Weber State University
Date:  8 Jan 1993 16:53 MST  

In article <C0Js35.1CtB@austin.ibm.com>, larryhow@austin.ibm.com () writes...
>What is the best solution for processing order forms in a PC environment?
>Scanning hardware: a IBM-PC compatible with an HP-IIc scanner.
>Is the best approach?
>   a) use an OCR program (which one?) and setup templates
>   b) a dedicated form processing application (does one exist?)
>   c) manually type the information in?
>   d) something else

Your request doesn't include enough information to determine this.  Are
the forms hand printed, typed, various sources or types?  What types of
information are on a form?  You may have to do some time/motion studies
to determine which is faster.  OCR software is not 100% accurate even
when used with a single standard typewritten font.  How critical is
accuracy?  Is the text mingled with graphics like form lines, etc?

> 
>How should the form be structured to make it easily read?
>(i.e. Fill in the blank, circle number,..)

Again, depends on the source.  For hand-filled forms, mark-sense forms
(like class test sheets) are probably the most accurately read type of
hand-filled form.  Hand-filled text forms, have much lower accuracy and
are awkward to fill out.

> 
>The order form may also contain an image.
> 
>Is there a program which can handle both, form processing & image
>storage/enhancement or should these be broken into 2 steps?

I've seen high end archiving systems that claim to be able to do that to
some degree, but they're expensive and the accuracy is questionable.

Clarke
From: labson@borneo.corp.sgi.com (Joel Labson)
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Home Mailing Business
Date: 4 Jan 93 19:30:43 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Can anybody suggest of a good home mailing type business...

Legal and proven only........

-- 
Thank You Very Much  
Joel R. Labson X5852
labson@borneo.corp.sgi.com
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: labson@borneo.corp.sgi.com (Joel Labson)
Subject: Radio Station
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:38:25 GMT

1) Anybody know how can one start his/her own radio station, what's
involved, how much, etc..??????? where to get inquiries ?????


2) How much it cost for an air time??????

I appreciate any info on this....

-- 
Thank You Very Much in advance...
joel
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: drw@euler.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
Subject: Re: Predatory marketing
Organization: MIT Dept. of Tetrapilotomy, Cambridge, MA, USA
	<1992Dec24.024849.29037@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <1hbj79INNdur@uwm.edu>
	<1993Jan2.201438.24888@Princeton.EDU>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 06:03:29 GMT

In article <1993Jan2.201438.24888@Princeton.EDU> ajackson@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Andrew William Jackson) writes:

   In article <1hbj79INNdur@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
   >   What would it take to snatch away a sizeable fraction of the market on
   >compilers or operating systems (say, PC-compatible C compilers) from the big
   >guys, working from scratch with nothing but a software development system but
   >unlimited access to innovative talent?

   Divine intervention.

God, yes!  You just might possibly be able to make a compiler that is
technically better than the big guys.  (But beware that Microsoft
probably has 100 people working on their C, and a production-quality
compiler requires a *lot* more dog-work than brilliance to produce.)
But it get it out in the market is going to require serious $$$ for
packaging, advertising, etc.  If you can't get your compiler into most
of the software shops in the country, it doesn't matter if it produces
code that runs 10% faster...

Have you ever worked on a commercial compiler project?

Dale
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: drw@euclid.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
Subject: Re: GNP & UNEMPLOYMENT BOTH UP ???
Organization: MIT Dept. of Tetrapilotomy, Cambridge, MA, USA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:58:48 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.213706.12845@spectra.com> ohumukin@spectra.com (Kawika Ohumukini) writes:
   Question: How can the GNP go up and yet unemployment also go up?

But remember that the total "workforce" is rather elastic -- people
enter and leave the workforce based on what they think they can earn.
In the "Leave It To Beaver" world of the past, the set of people "in
the labor market" was much more sharply defined by the culture, so
"employment" and "unemployment" always moved in opposite directions.
These days, both can go up at the same time.

   [...] when someone is replaced by a machine or technology, the
   society as a whole is better, and so is that person.

That is, assuming that the person in question can be retrained so that
they are as "productive" as they were before.  Technological
unemployment is still going to be a problem -- some people's major
skills are going to be in lessening demand.

   Do you want a society of optimistic self-starting achievers?

Curiously, the American populace is much more optimistic on the whole
than in any other industrialized country (according to The Economist).
Whether that's because we're coming *out* of a recession as they're
going *in*, or whether the difference is long-term, I don't know.

   Train them to do so and we will all see it.

However, it may work as well (or better) to make available options by
which people can train themselves.  In many cases, people are willing
to borrow money to get training, but the present legal system makes it
hard for private lenders to lend them money.  The college student loan
program (for all its faults) seems to be a reasonably good model for
how the government can facilitate private lending at a reasonably
small price.

Dale

Dale Worley		Dept. of Math., MIT		drw@math.mit.edu
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From: duncan@ravel.ati.com (Jim Duncan)
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Re: Radio Station
Date: 10 Jan 93 20:33:13 GMT
Reply-To: duncan@ravel.ati.com (Jim Duncan)
Distribution: usa
Organization: K-FOX 94.5 Classic Rock (KUFX, Gilroy-San Jose, California, USA)

In article <1993Jan9.004516.16036@news.csd.sgi.com> rosso@roscoe.csd.sgi.com (Ross Oliver) writes:

>  One thing they mention
>is that radio stations are generally declining in value, so it would
>be cheaper to buy an existing station that try to start a new one.
>
A new FM station can be started up for almost nothing if you know what
you're doing.  Location is very important, however, and most of the
good locations have been taken now after all these years...

>One figure mentioned in the article was $16 per 30-second spot.
>
This actually varies from free to more than $1000 depending on...
location (and current ratings).  

Having a broadcast license was the basis for an automatic money tree up
until the mid-80's.  Nowadays, only the cleverest, most efficient
operator can consistently make money.  Broadcasting is fun and has 'sex
appeal', but realistically it is no longer a sure money maker. It's
like acting = a few folks make big money, but most make very little..(and 
many are losing money at an astonishing rate). 



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Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
Subject: Re: The Great 1993 $150 Challenge
Reply-To: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:24:31 GMT

Here's the solution, Lynsey...

1. Buy NZ$150 of Steinlager...

2. Invite some friends over (including your bankroller mate)...

3. Have a party...

Your friends and you will enjoy the memory of good times for years to come.
And that's just about the -only- investment that makes sense anymore.

BTW, what is your address and what date is the party?  I haven't enjoyed a
Steinlager (mmmm, slobber, slobber) in well over a year!

Good Luck and 'aveagoodaycobber!

---

___________________________ John "HUTCH" Hutchinson _________________________
_________________ Fair Dinkum Technologies     Member - IAAD  _______________
________________ "No worries, mate... it's from Fair Dinkum!" _______________
____________ email: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov   GEnie: FAIR-DINKUM _____________