That would be really cool I think I'd have a unicorn farm
Yeah I'd be down for that
Just like a bunch of them grazzing in big fields grazing
Heck yeah
Maybe I'd just draw some of their blood every now and then and sell that
I'd be down to frolic through a  field with a unicorn
Or keep myself living forever with it  lol That would be fun
Hahahaha that got dark
I feel like with unicorns though they'd be so much more dangerous than horses
Living forever, but only a half life, a cursed life
like what if they accidentally poke you haha
Hahaha true
How long have you been waiting to chat this morning?
It's like a horse, but with extra Stabbing power
yes!
About 2 minutes haha, I just got on
Hence why in narnia they're great war horses nice
How's your morning going?
pretty good Woke up about an hour ago. Just been slowly getting ready for the day
Sounds nice
Yeah what about you? I have a question for you
I woke up like 20 minutes ago, I don't have class or anything til 11 today, and I really just don't have that much going on
sweet
It's nice cause it's been a super busy week but now things are calming down Okay, shoot
Are you currently working anywhere
I teach piano
nice
I've got 13 students. So, self employed I guess What about you?
So here is another question for you.  If you could get a job today working the hours you'd like and could get paid $10 an hour starting with potential up to $12 per hour would you take a job like that? assuming you didn't have this current job? I'm trying to validate a business idea and every persons opinion counts I should also say that it would be a job in a call center or data validation center
Um maaybe? If I didn't teach piano, then yeah maybe. I don't know if I'd want to work in a call center, that does not sound fun to me And I'm not really sure what data validation entails
It's really not that bad, I did it for like a year a while ago but I'm trying to find the price point that students who either haven't or can't find internships or other nice jobs around provo would be willing to pay
I feel like that would be about right
Because BYU pays like a max of 9.50 in their jobs so I figure that anyone would take 10 since it's better than BYU  or any other business in Provo that's not specializing in something would pay
Well, for the unskilled jobs at least, like custodial
exactly
If you're working for BYU in something that requires a skill they pay more So what's your business idea?
Yeah, but those jobs are more competitive So i'm actually in the process of building an outsourcing company. Instead of companies outsourcing customer support, data validation and inside sales to india and other countries.  i'm going to offer them quality service with educated Americans, many of whom have served missions and speak foreign languages and don't mind rejection
Oh cool! That's a good idea
I'm currently trying to validate the idea and simultaneously build a product that can handle all of these functions and send the data and scheduling and what not to the client
It might be a little hard because I'm pretty sure labor is waay cheaper in India. So it might be hard to compete
The biggest problem is every company uses some other kind of service to control their schedules, pricing, emplyees, etc.
And you want to make your own product that does that
So if I can standardize that and connect to their current systems with ease then it would make this even more lucrative Well we wouldn't charge as cheap as them
Ah okay
We would charge a lot more.  But for a state side company it would be about as cheap as you'll find given that utah is cheap, provo is cheaper
So why would they pay for you over Indians? Just because they love America and want to support internal revenue? I'm just kind of playing devil's advocate here
The trade off is they would get a way higher quality of work.  i have already spoken to 2 different CEO's who outsource to india and are currenlty looking for a solution here in the states because it was a complete waste of money
Ah. Interesting That makes sense then. If the company can afford it, switching over here gets you better quality
So they either 1) are very bad at handling customers and their retention rates plummet, or 2) if doing data validation they are really slow to validate data and even when they do they end up having to hire people here to double check their work because they screw it up a lot.
Have you researched what other similar companies in the US pay their workers for this?
yeah, so the struggle for these companies is that they really need these solutions, but often times don't have the resources or time to build their own solution so they either pay a ridiculous amount of money here in the states, or they outsource to india. Way more than $10 an hour haha and they also charge the client even more typically employees in call centers will make about $11-14 an hour, depending on the company.  Here in provo, local companies will charge about $12 because they're very aware
Yeah that makes sense
of the cheap labor
So this is a good place for the business Provo is a good place for a lot of startups really
so $10 starting with raises up to $12 should give me a big advantage.  and then having just natural skill from former missionaries coming in will help me with selling the q quality aspect of the businesss
Where would you put it? You'd need some kind of office or something and that doesn't come cheap
I have a lot more to research and validate, but I'm actually in the process of discussing setting a validation center up and getting contracted for like a 6 month trial run with a company to do validation work. So provo office space isn't too expensive. We would be starting off with just validation work so we would only need like a $400-500 per month office plus $100 for wifi.  We would be paid roughly $7000 per month for this particular service for those first 6 months Should we bring on more people we would move to a larger space for an equal price point rent wise
Cool! Sounds like a pretty solid plan Do you have a name for this company?
I would only make a couple hundred dollars in profit the first couple months.  It would honestly be just a trial run, but should things go well and the client is happy I would then start to crank up the pricing nope not yet that is
I'm curious because if I ever hear about this anywhere once you get it running, I want to be able to recognize it and say "hey that's chitchatter23, I know that guy"
lol So I have plans to enter BYU's business competition I was on a team last year
Oh cool! I didn't know that was a thing
so you may recognize my idea there it's in the winter/spring
Noice So are you a business major then?
The only issue that I can see is the minimum wage nationwide getting hiked up big time which would be rough no i'm a Computer Science major Business Management minor I am doing CS as a way to better facilitate starting up my own company
Cool Yeah that makes sense
it's much easier when you know how to build the product instead of hiring others to do it for you
Ok I need to go, I've got some homework I want to finish up this morning before class
okay it's nice talking to you
Thanks for talking though! Best of luck with your idea!
see you!
See ya!