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Article: The business of bulletin board systems: a BBS can enhance your current business.
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- November 1, 1995
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Your business is up and running, but you feel like you should be doing better. What's your next move? Perhaps you should start a Bulletin Board System (BBS), your branch office in cyberspace.
With some creativity, a BBS can act as a customer service representative, an electronic catalog, a conference host, a newsletter or a new business that can augment your existing one. "The only limitation is your imagination, says Idette Vaughan, systems operator of the Blacknet BBS in Brooklyn.
In its simplest form, a BBS is a computer that has been left on and hooked to a phone line through a modem so that it can answer incoming calls from other computers. With BBS ...