Charge Enterprises Inc (fka CRGEQ)

[blackhawks]

"I am a business man! And if my competition had free time while I paid!!

That would not be good because I would be MAD AS HELL !!"

Let's try and resolve this question. What exactly does 'free time' entail for any company not incorporating their brand or generic key word into their marketing? The only texts that they're going to receive will be from Ihub board members who learn of them and want to 'try it out' and maybe some employees testing it out.

Conversely, NO one is going to pay and NOT market the service.

Speaking as an Ambassador I can live with an ideterminate period of time before advertising appears and my request for a signed contract is presented.

The appearance of advertsing/marketing through TV/radio/website or print is the tripwire for me to ask if that indicates a 'trial' and how long they plan to run it. I will indicate that I will need a decision from them at the conclusion of that trial and that in fairnes to paying customers it can't be an open ended trial.

I expect that Ike will provide his own guidelines very soon.

I will recomend a 'hibernation period', for those reseved brands and generics who indicate "not at this time", that will preserve the brand or generic for the Ambassador for up to 90 days and that will require inactivation of the service during that hibernation. Hibernating companies will count against the current limit of 100 brands/generics in the Ambassador's data base, which means we'll all be faced with how much 'dead weight' we can carry while foregoing other opportunities.

Obviously this is an evolving situation and these are my possible solutions and not offical GOIG policy.