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Microcap & Penny Stocks : TSIG.com TIGI (formerly TSIG) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cicak who wrote (34894)	9/19/1999 1:11:00 AM
From: johngmack	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 44908

Phil, Thank goodness my post got some energetic responses. For a while there the thread seemed awfully quiet. Anyway, I would like to share a few thoughts plus respond to those that responded to my post. Susie, <<I want to believe what you have said in your post is accurate John,>> A few things about my background. I am a senior level sales and marketing officer in a large privately held business, have been a member of the Strategic Planning Committee for over 7 years, and on numerous occasions have met with and had presentations accepted by the board of directors. I tend to think both strategically and tactically, plus throw in a fair amount of instinct. Over the years I have been fortunate to have been right about new business opportunities more often than wrong. No guarantees here, Susie, only educated guesses. If you get a minute, please explain why we are investing in a company who's most recent financial accounting report warns that there is not enough positive cash flow to remain in business, plus a rather obvious IRS tax lien. Phil, <<Were you one of the few that didn't receive a PM inviting them to be a beta tester for the new SI ? >> No I was not. This was only meant to be an analogy. The general reason for business to place a product or service into an alpha and/or beta test is to keep control until the product/service is proven to be ready for prime time. Many well managed companies will not even respond to inquiries regarding unannounced products. TSIG did include the photo card in a PR earlier this year. But the company later said that they would primarily focus on the fall fundraising opportunities. They proved it by putting the distributorship program on the back burner. There is a reasonable chance they are doing the same thing with the photo card. Phil & Susie, this is just a suggestion, but please give it some thought. It appears both of you have already purchased the photo card. Instead of being impatient with TSIG, why not designate yourselves as beta testers. Use the service, monitor your experiences and report them to TSIG. Be objective. If you choose, share them with the thread. If you want to get TSIG's attention, fill their email with objectivity. The key point of my "let's pretend" scenario is the major paradigm shift that began in late August as TSIG moved into the execution stage of its life. Strategically TSIG is going to protect its trade secrets. We all know that information travels the internet in nano seconds, and there are plenty of pirates out there waiting to steal someone else's ideas. Tactically, the best way to prevent this is by releasing minimal operational information in between the quarterly reports. New partnership and new product info is OK, but make it harder for the competition to get tuned in. Another solid reason is to use common sense. Businesses tend to be judged by the quarter. Sending a PR in April that this will be a geat season for growing strawberries can look kind of foolish if it doesn't rain in May and June. (I don't have time tonight to offer some thoughts as to why this REMIT group couldn't even begin to compete with TSIG's fundraising programs for at least a year, but I'll comment in a later post.) What does this mean to shareholders who have been used to receiving PR's, sending and receiving email, and having direct telephone conversations somewhat frequently up until recently? If TSIG does circle the wagons, as a group, current shareholders used to a more open dialogue will be very annoyed. To further demonstrate evidence of this paradigm shift, some of you may have noticed over the last month that Paul Henry's email responses have become much more "corporate" in look and feel. Compare them to his earlier style. Okay, okay, enough doom and gloom. How do we stay abreast of what our company is really doing in between quarterly reports, especially 3rd & 4th quarter, 1999? Probably some generic PR's from TSIG that create more questions than they answer. Well, we do have a few folks on the thread who have some access to different sources of inside info. But be carefull though, the SEC may be watching. Then there is Alyce, who I like to think of as Walter Winchell on the McNeil-Lehrer Report. (The audience gets the projections, plus who is sleeping with whom.) There is another potential source of the progress of TSIG - the employment page on the TSIG website. Right now it is probably the single worst employment opportunity page for any business on the web. It states how the company is looking for the best employees, but does not list even one open job description. I personally made a position inquiry about ten days ago and never got a response. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the highest, this effort rates about a -2. Hopefully, this web page can only get better. Why? With cash flow comes the opportunity to hire those new people the recent stock issue was planned for. Positive cash flow, things are getting better. How do we know. TSIG either deletes the page so not to be embarrassed (too late for that), or they actually post real positions on the page with either an 800 number or an email address for contact purposes. Ditchdigger, <<what a croc'o sht!! pretty funny stuff John,keep it coming...;>> What a pleasure to here from you. The guy who I understand does not own a single share of TSIG. Also the guy who keeps posting the same old pre-August news. Well, I'm glad to have the opportunity to bring a smile to your face. What's really amusing here is that my scenario is just as provable as yours. As Fred reminds us, "time will tell the story of TSIG". That time just keeps getting closer and closer. In case you missed it, I earlier posted three possible scenarios regarding my TSIG investment: It becomes worthless, but has no major effect on my portfolio * It returns a reasonable profit * It makes a lot of money I'm okay with any of the three. Your "old news" posts are generally passed over. By the way DD, I didn't need any fowl language to make my point. Just hope it made you feel better. John