--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DEM00003 Date: 10/17/96 From: JEANNE NEVAREZ Time: 02:37am \/To: ALL (Read 7 times) Subj: quickbooks I was thinking of purchasing quickbooks but I've notice the 4.0 ver is 129.99 dollars at the places I've checked I was wondering how much difference is quickbooks 3.0 ver compared to the 4.0 since I've founnd a discount cd-rom store that carries that ver for only $18.00 dollars. And does that ver have invoices and acounts payable and accounts recievable, and inventory.If anyone has any information on this please let me know. --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: * MacSavvy OS/2 BBS * Dallas, Texas * 972-250-4479 * (1:124/1208) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DEM00004 Date: 10/15/96 From: LAURIE CAMPBELL Time: 08:46am \/To: GARLAND COULSON (Read 7 times) Subj: Sci-Fi GC> I am an avid Science Fiction fan as well. My first introductions to GC> computers were through stories. Looking around a GC> home office with fax machines, computers and GC> telecommuting, I don't think my time reading was GC> wasted. I think the time I spent reading science fiction as a kid was one of the more valuable things I did with my time. It opened my mind to possibilities. Given the rigid, far right religious thinking of my natural parents, I don't think I would have been able to cope with the world as it is now if the groundwork for possibilities had not been laid down by the books I read. The sense of wonder not only gives life richness and joy, it also makes it possible to look at business possibilites from new, unexpected angles. Most of my friends in my own age group are technophobes. I love the new technologies - I not only live off them, I play with them for the sheer wonder of it all. GC> That sounds intriguing. I find the idea of GC> "virtual companies" very interesting. Being able GC> to tap talented people regardless of where they GC> live without the costs of bricks and mortar sounds GC> exciting. I find it a pleasure as well as being profitable. We sell nothing (pixels - radio waves) to no-one (people we'll never meet in person) and money keeps appearing in the bank account. Virtual reality is us! --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Applied Technology BBS [604] 946-5814 (1:153/951) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DEM00005 Date: 10/15/96 From: GARLAND COULSON Time: 07:59pm \/To: LAURIE CAMPBELL (Read 7 times) Subj: Virtual Office LC> I find it a pleasure as well as being profitable. We LC> sell nothing (pixels - radio waves) LC> to no-one (people we'll never meet in person) and money LC> keeps appearing in the bank account. Virtual reality LC> is us! I've been suggesting to my manager that we could run as a virtual company (being an online service) but haven't convinced him yet. When I think of the travel time wasted by all the employees, I think there has to be a better y. Garland Coulson --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Applied Technology BBS [604] 946-5814 (1:153/951) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DEM00006 Date: 10/16/96 From: LAURIE CAMPBELL Time: 06:33am \/To: GARLAND COULSON (Read 7 times) Subj: Virtual Office GC> I've been suggesting to my manager that we could GC> run as a virtual company (being an online service) GC> but haven't convinced him yet. When I think of the GC> travel time wasted by all the employees, I think GC> there has to be a better way. I find that the overhead drops to a small fraction. No more downtown office space rent. The time I, as office manager and vice-president of the company, save on commuting is spent on more productive things. The energy saved is put into productivity. You do need staff who are self-motivated, since you will no longer be watching over them in person. On the other hand, it's very easy to tell who is doing a good days work and who is not - the work either is there, or it isn't. Biggest drawback to shifting to a home based office is loss of "storefront" - if your customers need to be able to come to an office, if a significant segment of your business is from "walk in" customers, then moving the entire business into home offices won't work. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Applied Technology BBS [604] 946-5814 (1:153/951) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DEM00007 Date: 10/16/96 From: GARLAND COULSON Time: 06:47pm \/To: LAURIE CAMPBELL (Read 7 times) Subj: Virtual Office LC> motivated, since you will no longer be watching over LC> them in person. On the other hand, it's very easy to LC> tell who is doing a good days work and who is not - the LC> work either is there, or it isn't. Biggest drawback to LC> shifting to a home based office is loss of "storefront" LC> - if your customers need to be able to come to an LC> office, if a significant segment of your business is LC> from "walk in" customers, then moving the entire LC> business into home offices won't work. When you hire new employees, do you interview them in person or just via email and phone? Do you require that all the staff use certain programs to eliminate incompatibility (ie. Wordperfect vs Word)? How do you maintain a central number where clients can call to order? Can they call a central answering service and then be call forwarded to your home? Thanks for talking about this. I find the topic extremely interesting. Garland --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Applied Technology BBS [604] 946-5814 (1:153/951) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DEM00008 Date: 10/17/96 From: SANDRA COE Time: 10:15am \/To: JEANNE NEVAREZ (Read 7 times) Subj: Re: uploads -=> Quoting Jeanne Nevarez to Sandra Coe <=- JN> Hello! I thought I leave you a little message about today uploads in JN> case you might be interested. I uploaded Hocus Pocus, typedos, keypad JN> (snip) Hi Jeanne, Don't know if you will get this or not, (It depends on whether you tagged this conference or not) but I wanted to let you know that I managed to download your message. We probably should be on one of the LOCAL con- ferences, those are "forced", which means you will receive the messages without tagging the conference, and they are for general chatter. Now I guess I'll go back on the BBS and see what I can download. TTYL.... Sandy ... Try genealogy. You can't get fired and you can't quit! --- Blue Wave v2.12 * Origin: * MacSavvy OS/2 BBS * Dallas, Texas * 972-250-4479 * (1:124/1208) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DEM00009 Date: 10/16/96 From: GARY HARDIN Time: 08:57pm \/To: FLOYD WILLIAMS (Read 7 times) Subj: Answering machine On Star Date 12 Oct 96 Floyd Williams opened a channel All... FW> I'm in the market for a new answering machine. From what I have FW> read, I prefer the digital type. But the digitals I have looked FW> at in the stores only allow 10 minutes or less of recording. FW> Perhaps a tape for incoming messages is the way to go? One with FW> digital out and tape for incoming. Or one with two tapes; one FW> out and one for incoming. Anyone suggest a brand. Appreciate FW> your comments. Floyd, Have you thought about a voice mail modem and software package? They are quite versatile and can give the outward appearance of a larger company with multiple voicemail boxes. ... ... Sussh. Be vewwy quiet, I'm hunting tagwines. hahahahah. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: SGA Media Services "On the WEB!" (1:104/114.9) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DEM00010 Date: 10/17/96 From: KATHY MURPHY Time: 08:31pm \/To: JEANNE NEVAREZ (Read 7 times) Subj: quickbooks JN> I was thinking of purchasing quickbooks but I've notice the 4.0 ver JN> is 129.99 dollars at the places I've checked I was wondering how much JN> difference is quickbooks 3.0 ver compared to the 4.0 since I've JN> founnd a discount cd-rom store that carries that ver for only $18.00 JN> dollars. And does that ver have invoices and acounts payable and JN> accounts recievable, and inventory.If anyone has any information on JN> this please let me know. Does Intuit make the QB version 4.0? If there is a quickbook for $18 I would look at it a little better. It might only be an intro to it or something. I really doubt a full version of a quickbook would cost $18 FidoNet: 1:320/128 Internet: custom39@nfi.com ... MASOCHIST: A person who enjoys pain & agony, i.e. a cat lover. ___ TagDude 0.92a+[DM] --- IM/TG/GECHO PRO * Origin: Our House BBS Pawcatuck, CT (860)599-3970 (1:320/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DEM00011 Date: 10/17/96 From: LAURIE CAMPBELL Time: 07:21am \/To: GARLAND COULSON (Read 7 times) Subj: Virtual Office GC> When you hire new employees, do you interview them GC> in person or just via email and phone? Do you So far my partner has taken care of all of that. He does travel to the place to meet people face to face. He puts together contracts, If he decides a person is worth going ahead with, he does the contract in several stages, sending a preliminary to the person asking if they think its fair, so that the person has contact with me. I talk to the person over the phone. Between us we decide if the person is going to work out. If not the contract becomes something no one will agree to, and they don't going us. We have had only one person that my partner fired outright, and we currently have one who we wouldn't be sorry to lose (but he isn't bad enough to fire - we just wouldn't weep if he quit) The main thing is to set it up in such a way that they're working for themselves to eliminate the need for the "boss over your shoulder" set up. GC> require that all the staff use certain programs to GC> eliminate incompatibility (ie. Wordperfect vs GC> Word)? How do you maintain a central number where Yes, they must use the same programmes we use (even if they hate Word) for compatibility. If they don't have the programmes, we supply them. GC> Word)? How do you maintain a central number where GC> clients can call to order? Can they call a central GC> answering service and then be call forwarded to GC> your home? Our business number is in the phone book, and the 800 number is available through directory, plus our phone numbers are on all of our ads and stationary. The phone numbers are call forwarded either to my home office, or to the answering service after office hours (9 to 5, Monday to Friday, Pacific Time) If I'm on the phone the call automatically goes to the answering service who take a message and fax it to me. Usually when I put the phone down there are three messages waiting for me to answer. People rarely get through to me directly after that first call in the morning - often not then because the messages taken over night are waiting for me when I walk into the office, and I start by picking up the phone to answer them. The answering service can transfer calls to my home, but since the reason a call went to them during office hours was because I was on the phone (so our clients never get a busy signal) there's not much point in trying. Once in a while they'll feel the need to put a client through to me after hours, or feel the need to keep trying me until they can get through. They're pretty good that way - they've never yet transfered a frivolous call, and they have been able to detect a personal call and put it through to me when there was a personal problem. Most of the orders are done by the people on site, and the applications are then faxed to me to process. --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Applied Technology BBS [604] 946-5814 (1:153/951) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 184 HOME OFFICE Ref: DEN00000 Date: 10/18/96 From: DICK ROEBELT Time: 12:12am \/To: HOWARD SCAGGS (Read 7 times) Subj: Question HOWARD SCAGGS spoke thusly to: DICK ROEBELT HS> > HS>is yours? If not I'd take your lawyer's advise and chalk it HS> > HS>up as a learning experience. HS> > Howard, what does a "writing" have to do with it??? HS> > She designed it. I am sure that in the file she has HS> > pencil sketches, ink drawings, computer art, etc. all related HS> > to the HS> I wasn't advising her of the validity of a claim, that was fairly HS>obvious, but the practicality of it. Even her lawyer advised it. HS>How many people running a Home Office, or any small business have HS>the time and money to pursue something like this? You'd also be surprised how many other non-home businesses do not really have the time or resources to pursue a lawsuit (except for non payment of bills). HS> I beleive at this time though that Nanci's lawyer has drafted a HS>better contract for her to use. One with more teeth to it to HS>make it easier, and hopefully less expensive, to protect her HS>interests. Ahhhh..there's the rub. That writing will only do one thing - and that is to strengthen her position in court. BUT it will still take a court case to settle the matter. So she is not really any better off. Except to say that it may put some fear into the signer. I doubt that in the instant case (the radio station) will be intimidated by such a document. Only a notice of filing a court action will get their attention. So, in reality, we in the industry either have to invest a few bucks in a lawsuit (or for at least an attorney who will write a few nasty-grams) and stand up for principal or we get crapped upon by every person who wishes to get something for nothing. Dick TheMerc@Juno.com The right to own weapons is the right to be free. * CMPQwk 1.42 84 * --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: Computer Vision/The ADULT Play Pen BBS! Largo, FL 1:3603/20010.0)