If you have children, read this thread

[MorganGrayson]

voodooman...the more I think about this idea, the better it gets in my mind.

I do have a "marketing" suggestion, though. With small children, it's "put this on because I said so." Older kids, like teenagers, will open a dialogue, and it will go the way all of those dialogues go. "You don't trust me." *sigh* Been there, done that. "*You,* I trust. It's the other idiots out in the world I don't trust...and frankly, kid, you only have to be wrong *once* and it's game over." I'm still dealing with it. Every time my kids drive down to vist me, my heart's in my throat until they pull into the drive way. I get "she's/I'm a good driver, Mom." I *know* that. I'm worried about the million or so other asshole Californians out there.

You might want to consider offering a plan that has *no* checks on it at all. In other words, this bracelet can not be used for "spying on me!" The parents pay for a "one check" only, for when the child is "missing." (Breaks curfew, whatever.) Once that is used, they have to pay again to activate the feature. I realize this is lumpy and doesn't take into consideration rebills, but it's just the shell of an idea, something to assist parents in getting the thing on teenagers who jump immediately to the "spying on me, you don't trust me, yadda yadda" thing.

Another thing you might consider - and this is very, very delicate because it can be taken the wrong way - is getting in with some of the Missing Children people and dedicating part of your site to the stats and photographs of missing kids. You're not profiting from these tragedies, although the accusation can and will be made by somebody, you're trying to prevent the list from getting any longer.

Some opinions from law enforcement officials would be good, too.

[voodooman]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

voodooman...the more I think about this idea, the better it gets in my mind.

I do have a "marketing" suggestion, though. With small children, it's "put this on because I said so." Older kids, like teenagers, will open a dialogue, and it will go the way all of those dialogues go. "You don't trust me." *sigh* Been there, done that. "*You,* I trust. It's the other idiots out in the world I don't trust...and frankly, kid, you only have to be wrong *once* and it's game over." I'm still dealing with it. Every time my kids drive down to vist me, my heart's in my throat until they pull into the drive way. I get "she's/I'm a good driver, Mom." I *know* that. I'm worried about the million or so other asshole Californians out there.

You might want to consider offering a plan that has *no* checks on it at all. In other words, this bracelet can not be used for "spying on me!" The parents pay for a "one check" only, for when the child is "missing." (Breaks curfew, whatever.) Once that is used, they have to pay again to activate the feature. I realize this is lumpy and doesn't take into consideration rebills, but it's just the shell of an idea, something to assist parents in getting the thing on teenagers who jump immediately to the "spying on me, you don't trust me, yadda yadda" thing.

Another thing you might consider - and this is very, very delicate because it can be taken the wrong way - is getting in with some of the Missing Children people and dedicating part of your site to the stats and photographs of missing kids. You're not profiting from these tragedies, although the accusation can and will be made by somebody, you're trying to prevent the list from getting any longer.

Some opinions from law enforcement officials would be good, too.

Morgan,
I really appreciate your input, I have plenty of opinions already from Law Enforcement, being in Law Enforcement, that was the easy task.
As I mentioned before, although the money made off of this is going to be much greater than I ever imagined, Im still doing this to HELP prevent the unthinkable, and when it works just one time, that will be reward enough for me. Along those same lines, I think having the one time access would be easy to do as well.
As for the site for missing and exploited children? They left a really bad taste in my mouth. I have called them two times, the first time to ask if they would be interested in our company to which the lady replied, I will have someone call you back. They never called so I phoned them again, I told the lady that nobody ever called me back and she said, "sorry, we are far to busy to deal with anything like that". That was about a month ago so....
Just didnt sit well with me at all. Not to say I wont give up on them totally, but for now I have.

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by voodooman

Morgan,
I really appreciate your input, I have plenty of opinions already from Law Enforcement, being in Law Enforcement, that was the easy task.
As I mentioned before, although the money made off of this is going to be much greater than I ever imagined, Im still doing this to HELP prevent the unthinkable, and when it works just one time, that will be reward enough for me. Along those same lines, I think having the one time access would be easy to do as well.
As for the site for missing and exploited children? They left a really bad taste in my mouth. I have called them two times, the first time to ask if they would be interested in our company to which the lady replied, I will have someone call you back. They never called so I phoned them again, I told the lady that nobody ever called me back and she said, "sorry, we are far to busy to deal with anything like that". That was about a month ago so....
Just didnt sit well with me at all. Not to say I wont give up on them totally, but for now I have.

I don't like criticizing them, but perhaps more effort put into prevention would free up some time in dealing with trying to find the missing.

[voodooman]

Two more days until our meeting with the big boys and when we find
out the fate of our company.

BTW, I have a message board setup at http://jrjco.com/phpBB2/
if you have any questions. It is not quite as nice as Oprano, but
I am still learning about BBS.
At the moment, you do not have to register, but there will be a moderator
while Im gone and you will have to register later.

If you want to be on the Test list email me at kirk at jrjco dot com
and I will put you down. This is limited to 50 people around the world
though as I have 1000 people in my area right now.
Now, this is pending on if we sale our company or not but I need to move
on getting a test date setup if we do not. I'm looking at Mid December
and will know more on Friday.