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To: Kimberly Lee who wrote (1082)	7/30/1998 5:40:00 PM
From: DeWAVE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2752

The London office is starting to pay off already. Salespeople Have Guts LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 1998--Technomedia (www.technomedia.net) announced the release of its interactive "Dynamic Telephone Sales Training," designed to help entrepreneurs and small businesses overcome negatives and get the most from each sales call. Cold calling is perceived as pushy and embarrassing by many entrepreneurs. By mastering the latest techniques for cold calling and getting through voice-mail "jail," entrepreneurs or small-business owners can build their network of customers in a planned manner. Cold calling, as taught in this course, can be polite, ethical, and courageous. Telephone sales, for both incoming and outgoing calls (both are covered in the course), are already a huge market, and with the enhancement of voice capabilities over the Internet, opportunities are endless. Traditionally, multimedia telephone sales training costs over $1,000. Technomedia provides a low-cost alternative ($49 for download version and $79 for CD-ROM), a 14-day money-back guarantee and one-to-one coaching for 90 days. The e-mail coaching service is designed to address a key difficulty with self-teaching: the lack of an instructor or colleagues to clarify basic issues. Use of humor, music, an American-speaking voiceover, and testing improves retention and shortens the learning curve. Techniques include building confidence, setting goals and success ratios, developing trust, how to close and much more. Options enabling training over the Internet or Intranet are available. A 75-page book, including sections on planning sales teams and organizing sales campaigns, comes with the course. The U.S. distributor, Digital River, can be reached at 312/803-1635.

To: Kimberly Lee who wrote (1082)	7/30/1998 9:52:00 PM
From: burgerking	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2752

TSQD valuation fair ... I think the valuation of TSQD (trading at 6 1/2) at this point is pretty close to correct. There's a lot of unknowns out there to state that it's a great buy. They have 3.2 M shrs of DRIV which may be worth quite a bit in the near future, but the tech analysis on most internet stocks for the next week seems pretty dreary (a rally today, but no one "broke out"). TSQD's latest 10-K states that there are 10.9 M shares and the stockholder's equity is $3.1 M including $2.6 M in DRIV. This means that if we sold everything TSQD owns now it's worth $0.5 M plus the 3.2 M shares of DRIV. And TSQD's core business is selling Mac's -- not a great business to be in. Therefore TSQD's intrinsic value isn't great. I have no idea what TSQD's management plans on doing with the equity they gain from DRIV's IPO, but I would guess that a fair portion will go into continuing to transition the company to Wintel products. This is a very competitive business. So even if DRIV trades at 30, this will mean TSQD gets a bonus of 96 M in equity. ($8.80 per share), but will this bonus ever get passed on to the shareholders? Also, DRIV may not be as hot as BCST, but more like more like SWNT which is currently trading at $14 3/8 per share. This would translate into $4.22 per share. Therefore at current prices IMHO, TSQD gets a "buy" rating but not a "strong buy" Other thoughts?