AHWY has news out and BAMM will catch. The warrants for AHWYW match the stock. Ken, people still talking about PQT. Maybe another up day, people are starting to try and hold for the BIGGG money. Myself I am going to get my little planned profit and hold some of the rest. That trying to hold on just one more hour, or day, or week, for a little more, has killed me in the past. I do not want to solve my headaches with a hammer to the head anymore!
This needs read again,
Examples of electronic commerce cost savings
Web-based order management - Using a supplier's Web site, customers can place orders and view inventory availability and order and shipment status. Early implementers of Web-based order management applications report that the cost of processing orders can be reduced from $8 to $25 per order to the 3 cents to $1 range.
Billing - Approximately five percent of U.S. households (5.16 million) will be viewing and paying their bills electronically by 2000. Estimating that each household pays 10-12 bills a month, between 619.2 and 743 million bills will be presented and paid electronically in 2000 alone. As customers move to online billing, billers can reduce bill printing, envelope stuffing, postage and remittance processing costs. However, most billers that are implementing electronic bill presentment and payment are doing so to enhance their relationships with their customers, not to reduce their costs.
Customer service - Web-based customer service applications -- especially those that are high performance, easy-to-use and integrated with existing business systems, such as inventory and order fulfillment - will provide cost savings over time. In the first year of offering customer service online, companies should expect to see no savings or even an increase in costs because most companies will be running dual phone-based and Web-based customer service operations, and customer service representatives will take on technical support roles. In the second year of operation, many companies will break even on their investment as customers begin to move online from telephone-based customer service. In the third year, companies may realize 10-40 percent savings in customer service expenditures.
''While most Internet commerce ventures will not be profitable in the near term, embracing electronic commerce is imperative,'' said Rugullies. ''The relationship building and cost cutting achieved in the early stages of electronic commerce will result in an improved bottom line and may eventually increase revenue through customer retention and loyalty.''
and from PCQuote,
Continued growth in page views, increasingly attractive demographics and the subsequent increase in advertising revenue led to the firm's decision to segregate the website into its own business unit. "Our website has grown in size and popularity to such a point that it is a sustainable business in its own right. As a distinct business unit, PC Quote.com may be able to raise financing for the Internet business separately from the market data business," stated Jim R. Porter, PC Quote Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "It will also afford PC Quote.com more flexibility in considering opportunities that are available solely to the Internet website business."
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