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Joe wrote:
My name is Joe Bell and for a school project I am making a business plan for a fly-in fishing lodge in Northern Saskatchewan. Information gathered from this survey will help me in setting up my business to best meet the needs of potential customers. The information will be destroyed once the data is analyzed. Your time and effort in completing this survey would be greatly appreciated. Visit on the following link to complete the survey: http://homepage.usask.ca/~jmb897/survey.htm Upon receipt of a valid email address, I will forward a copy of my professional rate schedule and a basic contract outlining the terms that will apply. Once a contract is in place and the initial payment received, I will be pleased to provide any pertinent information that I hold and which fits your criteria. In case this is outside your current range of interests and you are mining valuable data without compensation, kindly note my email address. Tom |
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"a-happy-up-yours" wrote in
message link.net... Joe wrote: My name is Joe Bell and for a school project I am making a business plan for a fly-in fishing lodge in Northern Saskatchewan. Information gathered from this survey will help me in setting up my business to best meet the needs of potential customers. The information will be destroyed once the data is analyzed. Your time and effort in completing this survey would be greatly appreciated. Visit on the following link to complete the survey: http://homepage.usask.ca/~jmb897/survey.htm Upon receipt of a valid email address, I will forward a copy of my professional rate schedule and a basic contract outlining the terms that will apply. Once a contract is in place and the initial payment received, I will be pleased to provide any pertinent information that I hold and which fits your criteria. In case this is outside your current range of interests and you are mining valuable data without compensation, kindly note my email address. Tom You must be happy camping company.. kids doing a school project, sheesh. |
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Joe wrote:
My name is Joe Bell and for a school project I am making a business plan for a fly-in fishing lodge in Northern Saskatchewan. Information gathered from this survey will help me in setting up my business to best meet the needs of potential customers. The information will be destroyed once the data is analyzed. Your time and effort in completing this survey would be greatly appreciated. tom responded: .. In case this is outside your current range of interests and you are mining valuable data without compensation, kindly note my email address. Tom then, chris said: You must be happy camping company.. kids doing a school project, sheesh. as a matter of fact, he is one of the finest boon companions a man could ever hope for. and if you think this "kid" is innocently gathering data for a school project, then fill out his questionnaire and hush. and, in the meantime, i have a little bridge in brooklyn i need to unload for next to nothing... wayno |
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Wayne Harrison" wrote in message:
and, in the meantime, i have a little bridge in brooklyn i need to unload for next to nothing... wayno ............... *burp* yep. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=35 913 |
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How much you want for it?
"Wayne Harrison" wrote in message .com... Joe wrote: My name is Joe Bell and for a school project I am making a business plan for a fly-in fishing lodge in Northern Saskatchewan. Information gathered from this survey will help me in setting up my business to best meet the needs of potential customers. The information will be destroyed once the data is analyzed. Your time and effort in completing this survey would be greatly appreciated. tom responded: . In case this is outside your current range of interests and you are mining valuable data without compensation, kindly note my email address. Tom then, chris said: You must be happy camping company.. kids doing a school project, sheesh. as a matter of fact, he is one of the finest boon companions a man could ever hope for. and if you think this "kid" is innocently gathering data for a school project, then fill out his questionnaire and hush. and, in the meantime, i have a little bridge in brooklyn i need to unload for next to nothing... wayno |
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![]() "Joe" wrote in message ... To 'a-happy-up-yours', I know market researchers are annoying and will try everything to get a survey filled out. I actually am a student at the University of Saskatchewan and my professor wants me to get 100 surveys filled out for my business plan. I do not know 100 people from the United States who are interested in fishing, so I thought I would post for help on some newsgroups. If this offended you, I am sorry.. I am not a specialist on newsgroup etiquette. Joe Bell I would guess that many are concerned, and rightly so, that filling out any form online has a good chance of being yet another way of spammers harvesting email addy's, phone #'s, personal info etc. Also sometimes links will take people to "trash sites" where one can encounter browser highjackers and other such nasties. The net can be a great place for research unfortunately too many A$$holes use it for less than honorable purposes hence the skepticism you have encountered. Lou "fishin deep in S. California" |
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I work in the alarm industry, and one of my vendors has a unique approach to
marketing surveys. About once a year they mail me a survey, and they include a dollar in the envelope along with a note. "We realize that your time is very valuable, and while the dollar enclosed doesn't cover the time to fill out our survey we hope that it will help. Our survey is used within the industry for suppliers and manufacturers to tailor their offerings to your needs. In addition to the dollar enclosed, if you fill out and return the enclosed survey we will mail to you a copy of the final report generated from this survey." I have filled out their survey most years. Once or twice I just pocketed the dollar and tossed it, but most years they got their results from me. I realize that if you are truly "just" doing a student project this may be a little out of you price range. I know a hundred dollars was like a million when I was in college. On the other hand, it is highly likely that your professor is assigning you to do research that he will turn around and use commercially. It is very common practice in the college and university environment for instructors to do this. I ran across it while writing some assembly language utilities myself. I wrote a very neat text / hex editor that did absolute reads & writes to a drive. You could use it to copy any drive to another drive amoung other things. It was also very handy for trouble shooting utility programs written in assembler. I took the time to dress it up with lots of fancy bells and whistles as well as multiple viewing formats to make using it easier. I also wrote a version to execute 20 times, and then seek out copies of itself and delete them all including the copy that was executing. A couple months later the instructor told me that he was having a problem with the program I wrote. (I already had my grade for his class.) I asked him to have his client get in touch with me directly. I would be glad to provide them with a non copyright protected version of the program for a small fee. His mouth snapped shut, and he walked away with out saying another word. Since then in business classes and scinece classes I have run similar circumstances. If the instructor is paying you to be a research assistant out of his department's budget then go for it, but if its just part of your grade he is commercially benefiting from your work without paying you. I suppose it may be difficult to get out of doing it if it is part of his class requirements, but I would certainly find out. If you could use some extra money you might be able to get a part time job assisting him with his research. -- Public Fishing Forums Fishing Link Index www.YumaBassMan.com webmaster at YumaBsssMan dot com "Joe" wrote in message ... To 'a-happy-up-yours', I know market researchers are annoying and will try everything to get a survey filled out. I actually am a student at the University of Saskatchewan and my professor wants me to get 100 surveys filled out for my business plan. I do not know 100 people from the United States who are interested in fishing, so I thought I would post for help on some newsgroups. If this offended you, I am sorry.. I am not a specialist on newsgroup etiquette. Joe Bell "a-happy-up-yours" wrote in message link.net... Joe wrote: My name is Joe Bell and for a school project I am making a business plan for a fly-in fishing lodge in Northern Saskatchewan. Information gathered from this survey will help me in setting up my business to best meet the needs of potential customers. The information will be destroyed once the data is analyzed. Your time and effort in completing this survey would be greatly appreciated. Visit on the following link to complete the survey: http://homepage.usask.ca/~jmb897/survey.htm Upon receipt of a valid email address, I will forward a copy of my professional rate schedule and a basic contract outlining the terms that will apply. Once a contract is in place and the initial payment received, I will be pleased to provide any pertinent information that I hold and which fits your criteria. In case this is outside your current range of interests and you are mining valuable data without compensation, kindly note my email address. Tom |
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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:22:42 -0700, "Bob La Londe"
wrote: On the other hand, it is highly likely that your professor is assigning you to do research that he will turn around and use commercially. It is very common practice in the college and university environment for instructors to do this. Then he'll learn that a self selecting survey of anonymous 'Net users is very apt to be misleading and he'll ruin his own reputation with his buyers. There's a reason that paid marketers chose their focus groups carefully. -- rbc:vixen,Minnow Goddess,Willow Watcher,and all that sort of thing. Often taunted by trout. Only a fool would refuse to believe in luck. Only a damn fool would rely on it. http://www.visi.com/~cyli |
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