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To: REW who wrote (13609)	12/28/1998 7:18:00 PM
From: cicak	Respond to of 44908

Bob - I hope newcomers take the time to read your posts carefully about how the MusicCard works. I still appreciate the time you spent teaching me the basics of the MusicCard and how it affects TSIG's bottom line. Regards, Phil

To: REW who wrote (13609)	12/28/1998 7:32:00 PM
From: Andrew H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44908

>>By puting both together it can be determined the profit generation of one customer to be at least $25 if through a $5 discount MusicCard. Each CD generates on the average of at least $1. That would make 1,000,000 customers worth at least $25,000,000 and without discounts over $30,000,000.<< Thanks for the explanation, REW. Furthermore, it may turn out that that the average profit/CD may be a good bit higher than $1, since CCI has to pay only $5 or 6 for a lareg variety of they CDs they sell. Of course there is no way to be sure that everyone who buys a card will purchase 20 CDs, especially those cards that are bought to support charities. On the other hand, it is virtually certain that those who buy reloads will get all 20 CDs. It is a good point to reiterate that TSIG's number one business is selling CARDS. And while they are only selling music cards currently, there is no reason why they cannot sell many different kinds of cards.

To: REW who wrote (13609)	12/28/1998 7:46:00 PM
From: slaffe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 44908

Thanks for the great post regarding the concept of the musiccard which imho is greatly misunderstood by a great deal of the masses. In addition to your post I'd like to point out something that has me so bullish on tsig. The great thing about the MusicCard concept is CCI gets the Card sale revenue up front and then waits for the CD purchases to come. With the highly competitive price of CCI's CDs, the customer quickly becomes a CD buyer. With outstanding purchasing credits on his Card, he then has no reluctance to returning to CCI for additional purchases. What does are competition have that entices customers to come back? Imo, virtually nothing expect for good service and the ease of e-commerce. While those things are important and also things that cci/tsig offers, in addition to that once the customer has used his musiccard up and it is time to reload, he gets a message stating how much he saved with his card and asking if he would like to reload another 20 units for ten bucks. Assuming a average savings of 5$ per cd that equates to a $100 savings on a $10. investment! Now tsig not only recieves the full $10 (all profit) but the customer as well for another 20 cd's! In other words, a customer for life! Also, the musiccard is not required to make purchases, we will access to regular retail customers, who will still be able to take advantage of Competitive pricing (even tho not as good as with the card) giving cci/tsig additional revenues. And not all cd's are $10.99! A great many of the cd's are catalogue cd's which sell for less than $10.99, and in which cci/tsig has a much higher profit percentage. When you start extrapolating the revenues and the profits, it becomes easy to see how cci/tsig could easily become an industry giant and perhaps the first in it's sector to report a profit! Steve

To: REW who wrote (13609)	12/28/1998 7:59:00 PM
From: slaffe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44908

Also another point to consider is the fact that for a charity to sell a $10. musiccard and recieve half of that is not cast in stone. I'm sure that dixie has a great deal of latitude when constructing a deal (Dixie, please correct me if I am wrong). Suppose Dixie goes to charity xyz, and this charity says that they are in a poor neighborhood and don't think they can sell a ten dollar item. What is to stop Dixie from offering a five dollar card good for 10 cd's rather than the $10 card for 20 cd's? Carrying it out a little bit further. Suppose it's not a poor charity, but a cash driven money making large corporation? What would stop Dixie from offering a FREE musiccard good for 5 cd's. We still get the reloads and the revenues from the cd sales. Combine this with the fact that the card can easily be customized. For instance, let us not forget, Phil Espisoto is our spokesman! How about a free customized mussiccard good for 5 cd's to the first ten thousand thru the gates of a major league hockey game? The possibilities are endless. It is not hard to see the potential here. Steve

To: REW who wrote (13609)	12/28/1998 8:11:00 PM
From: REW	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 44908

***PromoCardDefinition and Marketing**** The PromoCard has an alltogether different function even though it is a derivation of the MusicCard. It has a 5 CD purchase capability and is primarily used as a corporate promotional item. It's value starts out at about $2.50 but that figure is a starting point in the corporate deal making. Think about where and how the PromoCard can be utilized. It can be placed on the back side of venue tickets and given with the purchase of entry. It can be printed on consumer packaging to be cut out and utilized by the purchaser as a bonus for purchasing the primary object. It can be placed in delivery material. It can be given with subscription material. The list is endless especially if thought is put to products and situations. Once received the prospective customer must decide to call by phone or internet and activate the PromoCard or discard it. Once activated the customer has the right to purchase 5 CDs at CCI MusicCard prices. Once the 5 CDs have been purchased the customer then can reload to a MusicCard. A high percentage do since they have now become accustomed to CCI and their competitive pricing and service. Place a lot of thought into the revenue generated by corporate deals. If a nationwide concern wants to promote their product with the PromoCard in a given quarter instead of discounting the price, they will need millions of PromoCards. These are purchased up front. As the success of the initial corporate deals become known there will be a neverending supply of corporate customers and repeaters. Think of the profit margin of the PromoCard to CCI. A corporation needs 10,000,000 Cards for a promotion. Assume CCI discounts half to $1.25 each. That is $12,500,000 up front. 10% are activated for 1,000,000 using customers with PromoCards. They buy 5 CDs to generate over $5,000,000. 25% convert or purchase MusicCards at $9.99 or $2,500,000. They buy 20 CDs which generates over $5,000,000. Not bad. A bunch of customers. A lot of money. No advertising. The corporation paid CCI for the privilege of obtaining CCI customers. This is very simplified and I hope understandable. Bob

To: REW who wrote (13609)	12/28/1998 8:17:00 PM
From: TOPFUEL	Respond to of 44908

Great Post Bob hopefully this will trigger a bunch of informative posts on TSIG thread today was very disappointing IMHO I hope this wears off soon this way new investors can do DD on TSIG and not read crap. The card brings alot to TSIG and one day the daytraders will realize this till then TSIG will remain under accumualtion as the daytraders sell off long and new investors will buy up there shares so far past few days has show this trend to be true. David