Appendix A:  BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES LIST

1 Voice Mail Box/Pager Service - You can offer your voicemail boxes to individuals, small businesses, or other entrepreneurs and even alert pagers when a personal message has been recorded for their owner. The software offers a variety of choices including routing boxes, call transfers, 3-way calling, and automated billing. Our Direct Inward Dial (DID) upgrade offers clients their own telephone numbers ideal for call forwarding or professional answering service bureaus (ex. doctors, lawyers).
2 Time & Temperature Service - Your computer will rotate a variety of prepaid advertising messages and merge them with the present time and outside temperature. This package includes all required software and thermometer interface with extender cable.
3 Singles Matchmaking Service - Individuals seeking companionship will dial into your dating bulletin board to meet or chat with other single people. The software allows a wide variety of payment options including credit cards, prepaid, or guest memberships. Inbound callers may select their desired mates based on personal interests, geographic location, or personal preferences.
4 Outbound Broadcasting/Prospecting Service - Marketing organizations will pay you for new leads that are interested in their products or services. Your system will make automated telemarketing calls (at low or no-cost) to prefixes in your neighborhood (check local regulations).
5 Mail Order Entry Service - Most businesses close their offices at 5PM and certainly weekends thereby sacrificing the ability to conduct any type of marketing or sales transactions. Your voice system will intercept their after-hours phone inquiries, provide marketing information to new prospects, record personal messages, or close sales.
6 Talking Yellow Pages Service - TV’s home shopping networks generate over one billion dollars yearly by catering to consumers 24-hours a day. Now you can provide an electronic classified service which inbound callers can access with their touch tone telephones. Local advertisers will pay you for placing their products or services in your community based “Yellow Pages”.
7 FaxBack Literature Retrieval Service - Millions of fax machines are used each day by business, and residences will soon have them too. Your PC will store hundreds of sales brochures and other documents that can be selected with an inbound caller's touch-tone phone and transmitted to any specified fax machine number. You will generate revenue by charging for 24-hr document storage, brochure delivery by fax, and for any sales transactions that you close for clients.
8 Real Estate (MLS) Service - Whether or not you are a licensed realtor, you can offer verbal descriptions of real estate properties for sale or rent in your area. Interested parties can dial-in to your system and search the database based on a variety of options such as property asking price, number of bedrooms and geographic location. The software even has the ability to connect buyers directly to the listing broker or property owner using an office PBX or Centrex service from the local phone company.
9 Restaurant Hotline - Provides both a verbal listing and fax directory of local restaurants and the types of food offered. Diners seeking a new place to eat can dial-in their desires in terms of price, location, and cuisine. Matches will be spoken back to callers and printed menus with discount coupons sent with a built-in fax card. You will receive your fees through monthly service charges.
10 Neighbor Watch Hotline - Local law enforcement agencies have been asking for help from the community for years to establish block captains and watch groups to keep an eye on criminal activity. You can profit by allowing your system to be used to host all of the inbound call traffic. Advertisers will happily pay you for exposing their marketing offers to those interested in neighborhood safety.
11 Resume Forwarding Service - More and more employers are asking that resumes be faxed for review instead of mailing. Unfortunately, many candidates do not have access to a fax machine. To serve this market you will establish yourself as an interactive voicemail and fax service bureau that stores a cover letter and resume for each client. Paid clients can dial in with their touch tone phones and enter the destination phone number of the employer. You will charge clients to store these documents and to deliver each one by fax.
12 Little League/Sports Hotline - Locally there are many sports organizations that involve young children. Very often parents want to learn final game scores, hear where the next location is, network with other parents for carpools, or leave a message for team officials. In the event of a cancelled event or something else important, the software will autodial team members with just a few touch tone keys. You can generate money by hosting the public information service and by inserting an advertising promotion before it is heard. Ideal sponsors would be medical professionals, local merchants, children's clothing stores, entertainment, restaurants and amusement parks.
13 Homework Hotline - You can donate message space on your voice system to local schools and educational institutions. They will use it to place homework assignments, school activities, sports scores or for any other purpose. Because of this high call traffic by students and parents you will have a well exposed promotional medium to sell to local advertisers.
14 Wake-up/Personal Reminder Call Service - Busy professionals sometimes forget important future events like birthdays, anniversaries and business meetings. This specialized voicemail and database package keeps track of "time capsules" which store dates and personal messages. When that date finally arrives, the telephone number is automatically dialed and the stored capsule of spoken information is delivered to the specified party.
15 Long Distance Time Reselling - Since AT&T was deregulated, many long distance companies are selling their connect time at highly competitive rates. Now your computer can sell debit cards and other phone services to traveling executives, enabling you to earn a profit on each telephone call you process.
16 Seniors and Kid Monitoring - Your system can automatically dial home bound persons on a periodic basis to check on their welfare. If they fail to respond the system will then call several third parties to take a more personal look. You will charge customers monthly and for each phone call made using your system in their behalf.