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I'm wondering how many they are short just for today. Buying pressure is only going to intesify and their will be a major squeeze soon. I think we see .60 - $1.00 end of week.
Thank god I bought this morning. Only regret I have I didn't have time to Mortgage my house on this gem. lol
Wait til Power Hour!!!! This is going to be sick.
Today & tomorrow. lol
Grabbed some more. Have 103K shares. Afternoon, folks will be fighting for shares.
Here we go. Volume picking up. Go OTOW!!!!!!!!
Just purchased another 23300 shares.
Anything under .03 is a gift. I sold off a few positions and keep buying more shares. I have more to sell so I can buy more shares of VPRO. News is sick!!!!!!
Must Read: Interesting article about Go800. I put in bold print a sentence in the second to last paragraph that we all no is a huge problem. I also provided the link at the end of the article.
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Go800: You Text Us, We'll Call You
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By Jack M. Germain
E-Commerce Times
05/07/10 5:00 AM PT
Go800 wants to be the "1-800" number of the next decade. The startup provides a service for product vendors to get in touch with ready-to-buy consumers. Instead of showing a sometimes hard-to-remember 1-800 number on their ads, vendors can give viewers a simple keyword they can text to Go800. Seconds after a text is sent, the customer gets a call from a company rep. Will vendors bite?
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As business offerings go, Go800'splan is simple: It gives mobile consumers a quick keyword connection to a call-back from vendors. The vendor's ad lists an easy-to-remember keyword, a ready-to-buy viewer texts that keyword to Go800, and a moment later the viewer's phone rings with a call from the vendor. The system attempts to bridge the chasm between text/SMS and old-fashioned toll free numbers, noted the new company's president and founder, Ike Sutton.
Go800 launched April 15.
The patent-pending idea could give vendors a new approach to marketing and selling via the mobile phone. A company could use a text message from a potential buyer or link from Internet advertising to generate a near-instant phone connection with the vendor.
"Similar to calling an 800 phone number, the system allows customers to send a text message to a vendor to connect to the company's call center or customer service center. The phone rings six seconds later with an instant phone connection to a live person instead of calling in and navigating through voice prompts," Sutton told the E-Commerce Times.
Out With the Old
From the consumer's end, the process seems quite efficient. Shoppers no longer have to make an 800 call to get service. Instead, the vendor calls the mobile consumer back.
In their day, 800 numbers were a handy marketing tool. A potential customer would have to look up a toll-free phone number for a vendor and then make a free call to discuss a purchase.
But modern-day mobile communications takes that process a step further. In the process it could leave behind vendors who continue to expect their customers to look up and then remember a ten-digit phone number, according to Sutton. Even when the mobile phone carrier finds the number and places it, too much waiting time is consumed.
Embedded Call-Back
Buyers on the go expect more instantaneous access. Under his company's system, they can text a business name to "Go800" (46800) and get directly connected to their bank, hotel or even local pizza parlor, said Sutton.
That is precisely what Sutton's new service provides. New York-based Go800 bridges the divide between SMS and toll-free numbers.
Sutton's database currently has over 5,000 keywords. The sender does not have to include an actual message. In response to the text message, the mobile phone rings within and connects the consumer to the desired business.
How It Works
Sutton's service works with both brand names and generic regional businesses. He sells or leases keywords monthly. A national listing costs the vendor US$500. Vendors can also lease an area code to corner all of the consumer inquiries to a particular category within a particular geographic region.
For example, texting "Chase" to 46800 results in Go800 ringing your phone and connecting you to the Chase Bank customer service. Text "flowers" to 46800 and Go800 rings your phone and directly connects you to 1-800-Flowers.
"There is no need to search for phone numbers. It's an immediate and direct connection. Besides enabling easier contact, Go800 also saves businesses money by offering cheaper connection fees to their existing 800 lines," said Sutton.
Go800 also has direct response capabilities. Clients can skip the hard-to-remember ten digit toll-free number and instead tell their audience to text just a short code.
Room to grow
Go800 is registering keywords from large companies, small companies and even a few private executives who want their own vanity channel, said Sutton. He has plans to rapidly expand the service options.
"The first phase is limited to what is now in the database. This allowed the company to quickly get started," he explained.
Other phases aim to improve the technology as new devices and technologies comes out. He plans to implement a lot of bells and whistles.
Inside Track?
Go800 could well become the leading force that moves this technology forward. Few competitors are going in this text-to-callback direction, according to Sutton. However, his visions of a relatively clear field may be a bit obscured.
"The new service is very interesting from a vendor's standpoint," Neil Strother, practice director for ABI Research, told the E-commerce Times. "The Mobile Market Association (MMA) has guidelines that make a de facto standard for this sort of service. It's fairly standard process to rent short code."
Much of Sutton's success in selling his service concept to vendors will depend on the funding available, said Strother.
"A number of players do something like this with links to a company, but a callback is a new concept. The question to be answered is, will a callback be enough to overcome existing services?" he said.
No Easy Launch
Despite the innovative concept of marketing by text through Go800, Sutton admits he had his hands full in pitching the idea to get vendors on board. His original idea was based more on using text-based conversations to initiate sales between consumers and vendors.
However, that approach proved to be burdened with far too many legal problems. One of his biggest obstacles was convincing corporations with large IT departments that they could not effectively do this marketing plan on their own.
"There were too many legal hurdles with original plan of text-to-text marketing. I learned the hard way. Now I have a product not connected to IT department," explained Sutton.
Uphill Battle
Convincing corporations to try his new marketing concept was a hard sell for Sutton, who had a five-year background in the mobile phone industry.
"It took me two years of hard work to figure this out. About 80 percent of the media still follows the old way. We don't change as quickly. But businesses are slowly migrating to new media. We are a bridge between old and new," Said Sutton.
Go800 gives businesses one more event to get customers. Tapping in to that opportunity is often hindered by peoples' short-sightedness, he believes.
"I decided to give a product that is very simple for companies. People still want to talk to a live person," he noted.
Planting the Seed
The concept behind Go800 was Sutton's alone. He started the company with two cofounders, an intellectual property attorney and a technology expert in the mobile space.
He formulated the idea after two or three years of marketing and meetings to make his original texting idea work. The technology was available but needed to be modified. As Sutton describes it, the technology to do this is not rocket science, but he did have to work out the conversion.
"This is a huge idea, it is a billion-dollar marketplace that will attract a lot of people to the table," he asserted.
His goal is to expand the offering worldwide. He is currently working on building case studies to show a company how many of its customers can text.
Reaching that goal will be a tremendous challenge, he admitted. It's like putting a little toe in the water to test it before diving in. Eventually companies will want to do text-to-text, he believes.
Rocky Road
Selling his callback marketing method might be a tough road to travel. Go800 has a new twist on an existing concept, warned Strother.
"A lot of companies are getting into this space. I'm not sure what he's solving. It does give the vendor an edge," Strother said. "If the backend is human-powered, that's expensive."
Marketing this could be a problem. The obstacles are showing a clear problem it solves, focusing on who the customers are and how to educate consumers about short code, he explained.
"I give him high marks for adding the human voice callback. The negative side is, are there other alternatives? How do you scale it? It's a challenge. The mobile market is tough," Strother said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69945.html?wlc=1294230026
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PIHN has been downgraded on the OTC tier to STOP. Nothing to panic about because once Kuni releases the Annual Report (10K) & submits the Attorney Letter PIHN will be back to Current. I'm hoping the 4th quarter was even better than the 3rd quarter. If Company has improved gains from last quarter & potential Acquisition of a Company generating 13 million in Revenues then PIHN is way undervalued. Time will tell if everything falls in place. GLTA PIHN investors. I'm still holding my 30 million shares. : )
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/PIHN/quote
P.S. - 1st Qtr Financials 10Q (Oct-Dec) should also be released by 15 Feb to remain transparent (Current) on OTC Pink Sheets.
PIHN 2011
He sounded like a beaten man on the last audio update. Believe me, I don't trust Ike. The only person I trust is myself & my family. Just trying to find a positive spin on this mess.
P.S. - I trust Mr. FU - lol
Hey Steve, won't know until Ike releases some info. He likes to keep us shareholders guessing. lol
On a positive note, if GOIG has acquired this Cloud Computing Company then the increase in O/S would make sense. If not, where did all the funds go to?
JL
I agree with you. I want to see Go800 a success like it should be. However, if this is the reason the O/S has increased and we now own this Cloud Computing Company it will give us another Revenue source until Go800 takes off.
Listen up folks!!!!! Ike mentioned in the Audio about our Add- on-exchange team. He also mentioned Add-on-Exchange will be launching a new product this month. Add-on-exchange is the Cloud Computing Company. I believe Ike acquired the company and hasn't released that info yet of the acquistion. I believe the Outstanding Shares has increased due to this acquisition.
GOIG 2011
Ike sounded confident for 2011. Financials will be posted today.
Great time to accumulate shares. This is going to blow soon and the MMs aren't going to be able to keep it down much longer.
Great start to the New Year!!!!!! Go MSLP!!!!!
That report is going to determine if I stay or go at this point with the failed Acquisition. GLTU
PIHN is no longer current on the OTC Tier due to being late on filing there Annual Report.
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/PIHN/quote
You are correct. .065 is getting smacked hard and not budging with this float. MMs selling phantom shares again.
Looking good!!!!!! 2011 is going to be huge for MSLP. Cheers to the New Year!!!!!!!!
Johnny Walker Blue
We need a Rogue Hedge Fund to raise the PPS for that to happen. You can then upgrade your Charger. lol
Correct!!!! Can't move the ask when Company continues to dilute. Oops, I meant to say Rogue Hedge Fund Shorting. lol
GOIG 2011 - Holding 6.5M shares
Cmon MMs. Sell me some phantom shares @.0019.
No win situation when MMs can keep selling you phantom shares. They will continue to drop this until we get enough buying pressure to force them to cover. The buying pressure also has to be longer than one day. We need some solid news from the Company for this to happen. GLTA
Yes you did!!!!! lol
Couldn't have said it any better.
Happy New Year to all GOIGsters!!!!!!! Lets hope Ike can turn this around in 2011. GLTA & be safe breaking in the New Year.
Great post!!!! I think with their reduced price for cell phone service OTOW could capture close to 100% of the DR. The potential here is HUGE!!!!!!!
I'm banking on it!!!!!! Love the SS here also. With the low float this could run to multi-pennies if Val releases some big news next year. Could OTOW be the next ASFX or GOIG. Time will tell. GLTU
Very thin. I just put in a buy order on the ask @.0019 and only 12.5K got filled. I'm on the bid now.
His word means nothing.
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Added another 200K shares yesterday. Looking to add more before the New Year. GLTA
Recycling Cell Phone Company?
DTSL?
Worldlink?
Cloud Computing Company?
Bank testing 50 Keywords?
300 Pending Contracts which turned out to be 30.
120 Pending Contracts after one of the audio updates?
Cash Flow Positive?
MONA Shares?
Fortune 500 Companies?
Canada!!!! Anything happening there?
Has anything come to fruition with GOIG this year?
Santa has a nice bag of coal for all us GOIG shareholders.
You're probaby right yoyomama. Ike diluting more so he can get that new Company Car with his Christmas bonus.
WTF happened to the billions of shares GOIG acquired from MONA in exchange for their China Based Assets? Maybe Ike gave them all to Mr. FU in exchange for his luxury vacation packages to China.
And his Christmas Bonus!!!!!!!!