Hearthlist Digest #465 - Thursday, July 13, 2000 Re: POs by "Jim Butchart HPA Webmaster" <[email protected]> Re:Computers and Business by "Jim Hartsen" <[email protected]> Season Prelude by "Craig Issod" <[email protected]>
(back) Subject: Re: POs From: "Jim Butchart HPA Webmaster" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 22:12:58 -0400 Interesting stuff. Roger, a computer generated fax may be easy for you, = but what about the manufacturer or distributor on the other end? They still have to "rip and read" the fax and manually input the order. And they do this all day long. There are lots of opportunity for error and lost = orders. Plus all the associated costs of paying that poor clerk to type orders all year. I wouldn't hold my breath for our manufacturers to catch on either. But just wait until someone approaches them or their competitor and proposes sending all orders and payments electronically already formatted to enter their system without human intervention. As a manufacturer, what would = this be worth. Would I get a better price as a purchaser? I should! This wouldn't be a Napster derivative. I'll be surprised if Napster is still alive next year. They are being sued out of existence. What I am hinting at is EDI. It won't be pushed down anyone's throat by a = non-profit trade organization. It will be done by someone willing to think outside = the box and wants to make some money like any true entrepreneur. Everyone = else will stay with their paper and pencil and faxes and will be perfectly = happy doing business as usual. In the dark. EDI does not require anyone to change the format of their data. There is = no standardized format for accounting data. This is where most get lost in = the concept. The trick is to translate the buyers data to marry up with the sellers data fields. Or find out what the seller needs and go from there. Any more than that I will be giving you too much of a head start. Jim Butchart
(back) Subject: Re:Computers and Business From: "Jim Hartsen" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 22:13:58 -0400 Jim, In reference to your post on business using their computers. In my local Chamber of Commerce their are only a handful of business that even have e-mail address, saying anything about a web page or extensive usage. I = find it totally mind boggling. They are all running their business like there = is no internet. We do everything on ours, in fact somedays I feel like we = live in them, but they are a great tool. Jim Hartsen ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: Hearth Email List <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 8:35 PM Subject: Hearthlist Digest #463 - 07/11/00 Hearthlist Digest #463 - Tuesday, July 11, 2000 Re: Email lists, etc. by "Jim Butchart HPA Webmaster" = <[email protected]> More Questions by "John Crouch" <[email protected]>
(back) Subject: Season Prelude From: "Craig Issod" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 22:53:48 -0400 John Crouch asked: At 5:12 PM -0700 7/10/00, John Crouch wrote: >My question relates to your web site. In years past the pick up on >hits on your site has always been one of the earliest harbingers of >the season. >1) How does this month compare to previous July's Just looked it up. We hit our slowest traffic for the year last month, which was about one thousand visitors per day to the hearth.com domain. Traffic is increasing now, and is over 1100 per day now. This compares with about 900 per day at this time last year, so it's 20% increase. This is quite substantial since last year was Y2K, so all those lookers and buyers were in the market. The higher energy prices are surely energizing our industry. I hope the interest is translating into sale. Still haven't heard much from dealers about this.... ------------------------------------------------------ Craig Issod HearthNet at http://www.hearth.com [email protected] Everything your Hearth Desires ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------