hi i would make kanye vice president
Hey! How's it going!
going goodn about to have some wendys
I would just make a bunch of executive orders basically sending a crap ton of money to puerto rico nice I need more points haha I am slacking and she's catching up! I have been super busy today I had a big interview this morning
with who?
the lab that does the chit chat challenge haha Except it was for a different project I'm not exactly sure how it went i honestly had a lot of questions for them and didn't feel super confident with the problems they gave me, but it wasn't too bad. We also re-arranged like the entire office in Provo today New tables, desks, organizing etc it was crazy We have our bishop coming over in like 30 minutes So that should be fun. Never met the guy before They've been trying to schedule with us for quite some time now. So I came up with a cool business idea today
whats your idea and how did you rearrange the office?
well it's just one room now so we had to fit as much as we could in the big room alone Also basically the idea is this A lot of companies outsource Validation and customer care to call centers in India.  I am going to create a business that hires BYU students and UVU students for about $10 an hour and then basically just have companies outsource it all to me I'm going to build a software that can interface well with these companies so they can see all the necessary data about their customers in real time too. The nice thing is that BYU and UVU students will 1)  work for cheap because there aren't a lot of high paying jobs in provo/orem. 2) speak foreign languages which helps with call centers 3) aren't afraid of dealing with angry people because most have served lds missions and 4) are excellent communicators for the same reason as #3 And they work hard. So I believe I can convince people to handle these things. So we would probably start with either validation only or call center only and then expand into the other. And we could grow to other low income cities across the states where there are colleges nearby and a high demand for students looking for work. The key thing though is building a high quality product for our employees to use and ensuring that the quality of work is very high so that if we charge more than these other outsourced places it will still be lucrative enough for them to outsource to me instead. I still have a lot of validating to do and am probably going to try and get a grant from the marriott school to validate it, but i am super excited The other idea i have is about an app that could locate and show historical markers for you. So there is a national database of all the road markers that have those historical paragraphs about why a place is important. So the app would show you where they are located within a certain distance of your phone and then pull up the text and possibly even speak it out loud for you when you get close to it. That way when you are going for drives or on a roadtrip you don't have to get out of the car to read the signs. If you could mainstream it then eventually you could just make money off of ads of places that are near your location my third idea which I don't think I'm going to try at all (I have already considered it in the past) is about a tutor exchange for BYU students Basically it would be a simple app for finding and soliciting tutoring of certain courses at BYU BYU has a lot of resources for volunteer tutors (no pay), but there is no where that you can find paid tutors easily You have to look at like 5 different sites and even then you typically can't find them This would make it easy to find tutors and tutors would just need to pay a semester fee to keep their name and information available to solicit their services that, or I would have students pay tutors through the app I thought about it a lot though and it would be way too much work, for too little profit and to scale it would be difficult since other universities actually have things for finding paid tutors easily. So yeah, I'm currently going to try and work out the first business Idea I thought of. If I get further along with it I may ask you to help me out a little bit! I have a company that I know would probably be willing to hire me as they've already asked me to run a validation center for them at BYU anyways. So I could totally test it out for a period.  I think I'd probably have them sign a contract so that either, A) they must retain our services for a minimum of 6 months and also b) that they commit to letting us hire and employ up to 6 different employees at any given time. And if all goes well with some test runs then we could both expand to offer services to other companies and 2) we could hire a lot more people It would be pretty cool I think I would probably need your help more with management of everything and assisting in interviewing possible workers You would get paid well if you did it just fyi but I have to see if this idea is worthwhile first off returning to the prompt, I like to think that I would have complete control in this scenario, no senate controlling whether I can actually follow through with things or not. I would totally put myself on the Washington Wizards roster and play alongside John Wall and Bradley Beal after that I would take a private jet and fly to California where I'd be greeted by Elon Musk handing me a customized Tesla Roadster (the new one) Then I would drive myself around LA and get some food at whatever the most expensive steakhouse there is. Then I would end my day by flying back to Utah in a cargo plane with my tesla in the back. Okay, I have to go for like 30 minutes probably any minute.  I'll get right back on though after I'm back Sorry about that Quick visit to our home. Winnie (my dog) kept running around and jumping on everyone She grabbed each individual toy and would play with it for a while and then when she saw no one was giving her attention she would go get another toy That went on the entire time And she would get out her squeaker toys too and do that. Change of topic:  Did you see Jimmy Buttler freaking out in practice!? He went all crazy on Tom Thibado and the other management people on the Timberwolves He was not helping his case for getting traded in my opinion It just makes it more difficult to get rid of someone when you blow up like that with management Things go bad and you react like that.  Not very encouraging for another team's management I'm currently watching friends Ross has started dating Rachel's sister, but then stopped when Rachel asked him to stop So that whole love relationship is starting to heat up again. Joey is working as a waiter because he is broke And chandler is still dating monica steadiliy I'm really curious about what kinds of things would work sucessfully in a call center kind of going back to that business Idea i had with you earlier. I think that I would seperate employees into different groups, each responsible for a different client.  The ones who do the best and are really good with customers I'd probably give raises to and make them managers and people designated to take more serious calls. I think I could potentially have people that do validation work and not answer phones, people that only answer phones, and some flex people Because honestly those are two big markets within the outsourcing market that I could take advantage of and do well. People who do poorly with talking to people and answering phones could get moved to validation, people who end up excelling at commuicating with other in the validating group could get moved over to answering phones and we could potentially also offer outsourcing inside sales for these companies. Inbound only though The only thing I struggle with is pricing. How much do you charge these companies. Do I charge per employee that I have dedicated to them?  Do I just have a big flat monthly charge and then it's up to me to meet certain requirements? That is the tough question. Granted I can charge them more than they  would pay foreigners because the quality is way better and the amount of calls and tasks they can complete would also be greater. So suppose I pay my employees on average 10.50 an hour, including managers.  On top of that I would probably need to charge an extra two to five dollars per person in order to actually make a profit because there is equipment, the software itself, and a bunch of other things that would have to go into all of this. So if I'm asking for say $14 per hour per employee devoted to them and say I just always have 2 people around the clock available for them between 8 am and 5 pm then that would be roughly ... 252 per day and we consider that's five days a week they are working Optional Saturday coverage as well. It's like roughly $5000 per month that they need for a smallish business to run smoothly a call center That's honestly not all that bad when you are dealing with a service based business. So If I charged around $5000 per month and only really needed 2 employees in the office at all hours of the day. Not too bad then consider doubling or tripling the employees or even the  number of companies.  We could be making like $30 k per month in revenue from this in just the first year alone. Granted most of that money goes straight to employees, but I could probably charge a lot more than that I am getting really tired of typing non stop I'd like to get some more data into how much it costs to outsource to companies in Indai India Also the pricepoint that BYU students will work for and also how much a company would be willing to pay a company within the united states Not even sure how I would go about finding a lot of that data I hope that we have some nice weather tomorrow I don't want to have to bike onto campus in the rain again the other day it said there was a 10% chance of rain so I decided to bike as soon as i got on campus it started to rain lol Then I looked at the weather and it said there was a 100% chance of rain Utah meteorologists are not very good So I started some new work today for my job I used to do some application testing, but we now have started working on building out some apps for a couple of our clients to manage their employees with and pricing analyti analytics So that's been fun So I don't know what else to talk about:  I think i'm going to make myself a prompt. What are your thoughts on the growing concern of global warming? There is something to talk about. I honestly am a little worried because Trump and a lot of other republicans keep going around saying that it's not a real thing But it is! I think that the way technology is going though we are making some good strides towards resolving the issue, but just not enough I think that primarily with electric cars we can reverse a lot of the terrible things we've done to our environment I also feel strongly about putting more restrictions on manufacturing pollutions and also on energy production Tomorrow should be pretty busy Besides just classes I also am going to this luau party thing for the BYU football game which should be a lot of fun I have this big test that I thought was going to open tomorrow but actually opens on monday My teacher said he tried to make the late day fee 20 but they wouldn't let him I think i'm going to take it on the last day So that should be on Friday It's like my hardest class this semester so that should be lots of fun Okay, I'm pretty tired.  I'm going to take a break for a while See you!