TVisio WebTV Cooperative Distribution Joint Ventures

Leading all other infopreneurs of all sizes into the new WebTV market was no fluke for TVisio RSS, a Joint Venture Brokerage Network in Birmingham, AL. CEO William Whetstone had been watching the growth of the Internet since 1995, when the World Wide Web was just beginning to take off. Whetstone, a prototypical "early adopter," knew what he wanted: a new alternative business education delivery channel that would help him enlarge his market. He had already started to implement Internet Marketing with TVisio Joint Ventures and had jumped into the market with services dedicated exclusively to Internet Marketing Surveys for alternative business education products and services.

Whetstone wasn't sure that WebTV would become the "killer app" its early promoters had predicted, but it seemed worth a shot. Then Microsoft acquired WebTV, giving a powerful boost to the new devices' long-term prospects. nFront and Microsoft designed a secure front end that could encrypt sensitive marketing information; they also redesigned displays so they are appropriate for viewing from a couch 12 feet away from a TV screen rather than a chair two feet away from a computer screen.

WebTV is an inexpensive (less than $400) device used in a familiar environment, and it's low-tech enough for a mass market. Whetstone foresees a time in the future when communications bandwidth becomes more abundant and a consumer can sit at her kitchen table going over financial and marketing information displayed on the TV screen. If she needs a joint venture broker, she will be able to tele-confer with one via her TV.

Of course, Whetstone doesn't know when this capability will be available and popular. But TVisio RSS will be ready. Whetstone says that WebTV used in this way could be the vital factor in balancing the efficiency of electronic delivery with the imperative of making personal relationships the centerpiece of joint venture brokerage services as we address the new economic realities of cooperative distribution.

Besides being sound growth strategy, getting ahead of the curve in Internet Cooperative Distribution Joint Ventures is also good defense, Whetstone calculates, considering the killer competition among internet marketers.

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