Internet helps home schooling become a $600 million business

Article Abstract:

The income of home-school parents, which has been boosted by online sales, has reached $600 million in 1999. The success is also attributable to the increasing acceptance of home schooled families as an alternative to public and private education. Thus, the number of home-school families who have gotten online have also increased. Previously, alternative textbook vendors and parents had to go to state home-school meetings to sell and brand their company's name and products before they discovered the benefits of Web sites.

Sales & consumption

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NCOF disappoints seasoned attendees

Article Abstract:

The 2000 National Conference on Operations and Fullfillment, held in Orlando, FL, in Apr 2000, was criticized as boring and trite by some of its veteran and novel attendees. The conference, which drew a record attendance of over 1,900, was said to be too much in favor of upstarts to be of much help to veteran attendees. One advice given for next year was for the organizing commitee to group the programs into basic, intermediate and expert categories.

Strategy & planning

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PrintChannel starts conversion program

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PrintChannel is offering a conversion program for printers that were previous customers of defunct procurement Web sites, including Collabria.com, Printable.com and Mediaflex.com. The company is offering the service with a 25% discount on its standard system set-up fee, plus five days of e-commerce training and 25 support hours to help customers convert their sites to PrintChannel.

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