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	Cutting out the middleman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cutting out the middleman is a business model that involves reducing costs by removing layers from a distribution network.
		Cutting out the middleman may become possible as a result of better technology or economies of scale.
		It reduces transaction costs, processing time and brings the producer or manufacturer of the product/service that much 'closer' to the customer, arguably making them more responsive to the customers' needs both by delivering the products/services faster and more accurately to meet the customers' tastes and preferences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cutting_out_the_middleman (117 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Cutting out the middleman - Wednesday \| November 6, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The goods produced are usually bought by a "middleman" who in turn sells to the consumer and in a short time makes substantially more than the producers.
		The farm is visited by a middleman who buys all the produce at a price that reflects a nominal return on the farmer's investment.
		The net profit to the middleman is $7,840 less $1,950 and $735, which is $5,155, compared to the $200 profit made by the farmer.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20021106/business/business7.html (740 words)

	Cutting out the middleman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Cutting out the middleman is a (additional info and facts about business model) business model that involves reducing costs by removing layers from a distribution network.
		Cutting out the middleman may become possible as a result of better technology or (additional info and facts about economies of scale) economies of scale.
		It reduces transaction costs, processing time and brings the producer or manufacturer of the product / service that much 'closer' to the customer, arguably making them more responsive to the customers' needs both by delivering the products / services faster and more accurately to meet the customers' tastes and preferences.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cu/cutting_out_the_middleman.htm (111 words)

	cut out the middleman
		Further, it allegedly implies that “there is an obstructive and greedy presence in the form of insurance brokers that these should be dispensed with by ‘Cutting Out The Middleman’”.
		Pending the outcome of the ASA ruling Dial Direct was instructed to either remove the billboard or to cover the "offending" portion of the advertisment.
		The ASA believed that the representation of the broker combined with the saw which appears as if it is physically cutting out the broker along with the statement “cut out the middleman”, negatively portrayed Brokers.
	www.middleman.co.za (569 words)

	Gizmodo : September 2002 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A reader points out the new GUH174 MiniHub, a super-slim four-port USB 1.1 hub from IOGEAR which is just 2.5 inches long and 0.7 inches thick.
		For the radio enthusiasts out there, the WR-G303i, which is a dedicated shortwave reciver on a PC card.
		Hot new MP3 player coming out in Japan from Creative, the NOMAD Jukebox Zen, which mimics the design of the iPod (of course), and comes with a 10GB and both FireWire and USB 1.1 connectors for file-transfer.
	gizmodo.net /archives/2002_09.php (828 words)

	Disintermediation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In economics, disintermediation is the removal of intermediaries in a supply chain: "cutting out the middleman".
		The existence of laws which discourage disintermediation has been cited as a reason for the poor economic performance of Japan and Germany in the 1990s.
		However, Internet-related disintermediation occurred less frequently than many expected during the dot com boom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Disintermediation (497 words)

	Melisa's Blog: Competitive Forces Paper on Dell
		The direct sales process allowed express selling to the customer by cutting out the middleman.
		Out of the five competitive forces that influence the computer technology world today, “rivalry among current competitors” (Porter, 1980) possesses the biggest threat to Dell.
		Ultimately cutting out the middleman and proving direct support to its clientele.
	melisaw.blogspot.com /2004/12/competitive-forces-paper-on-dell.html (1492 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Iraq insurgents displaying little rhyme, reason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Rather than employing the classic rebel tactic of provoking the foreign forces to use clumsy and excessive force and kill civilians, they are cutting out the middleman and killing civilians indiscriminately themselves, in addition to more predictable targets like officials of the new government.
		Yet if the insurgents achieve all-out civil conflict, the likely losers are the Sunnis themselves, since they are a minority.
		If the immediate objective of the insurgents is relatively limited — not to topple the government and drive the Americans out now but to pin them down and bleed them — that at least would have solid precedents.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600134047,00.html (1514 words)

	House of Commons - Trade and Industry - Minutes of Evidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		If you are delivering direct, you are cutting out the wholesaler and his profit.
		I am obviously being a bit thick but I think if you cut out the middleman you usually make some savings, but there we are.
		I should warn you that the Committee is going out to the States later next month and we may well end up testing your ideas and your claims against our own experience, which will be highly selective but extremely intense, as you can imagine.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199899/cmselect/cmtrdind/380/9042718.htm (2533 words)

	Using the Web to help, hinder your resellers (InfoWorld)
		Earlier this year, there was a lot of talk about how the Internet could "eliminate the middleman." The idea was that the Web would allow manufacturers of products to sell their goods directly to consumers.
		In the parlance of I-commerce gurus and analysts, this process is known by the buzzword "disintermediation." But recently, a lot of those gurus and analysts have been changing their tunes.
		Of course, the middleman never went away, except in the minds of over-enthusiastic industry pundits.
	dylan.tweney.com /prophet/970922prophet.htm (792 words)

	Cutting Out the Middlemen / Electronic stock systems challenge the traditional market-makers, offer savings for ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Cutting out the middleman: New stock system challenges traditional system.
		An ECN might be able to match a buyer and seller without a middleman, completing the trade at $133 a share.
		If they can't match them up within their own systems, they send out stock quotes through the Nasdaq system and pass off orders to other Nasdaq members.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/08/17/BU76578.DTL (1552 words)

	Personal Finance - Do you really save on insurance by cutting out the middleman?
		Insurers who sell direct are quick to point out that by going direct you cut out "the middleman" and save on costs.
		And, they point out, insurance companies that sell direct also incur costs in selling and servicing their policyholders - they have to advertise their products and employ staff to deal with quotes, contracts and claims.
		The cash-back bonus may be in addition to an upfront no-claims bonus you qualify for when you take out a policy because of your claims history or other factors such as your age, gender, where you live, and so on.
	www.persfin.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=594&fArticleId=2186624 (1977 words)

	Advertising sink is draining - Opinion
		Economic theory tells us that successful, profitable businesses are constantly looking for ways to eliminate the middleman, thereby cutting expenses and increasing customer value.
		In the 1980s and 1990s, vast legions of middle managers became unemployed once corporations figured out that, in the end, the managers weren't actually producing all that much.
		What is interesting here is that this new distribution model is far flatter than the old one, and cuts out the advertising middleman entirely.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /news/2005/10/21/Opinion/Advertising.Sink.Is.Draining-1029094.shtml (689 words)

	10 tips for cutting cruise costs (Page 1)
		"These days the cruise companies sail out of so many different ports that it is much easier to find a port near you," she says.
		But by doing some homework before you leave, you can figure out exactly what you want to do when you're in port and book your own shore excursions for considerably less by cutting out the middleman -- the cruise line.
		Thomas agrees, saying that once you've figured out what you want to do, you can contact the vendors listed in a travel book or port report and make direct arrangements yourself either over the phone or on the Web.
	www.bankrate.com /brm/news/cheap/20041220a1.asp (854 words)

	BW Online \| December 11, 2000 \| A Direct Line to Consumers in a Downturn
		Cutting out the middleman online might be an idea worth reviving -- especially for brands the consumer knows and makers that know their consumers
		And for a brief spell in 1997 and 1998, the death of the middleman, dubbed disintermediation, was the provocative idea of the moment.
		And despite the rise and fall of dot-coms and their business models, the inherent aspects of the Net are real: global reach, an information-rich environment, the ability to customize and target more precisely, and the chance to get into new businesses.
	www.businessweek.com /technology/content/0012/ep1211.htm (956 words)

	Telegraph \| Money \| City Comment
		Spencer reaps benefit of cutting in the middleman
		Spencer reaps benefit of cutting in the middleman
		This way the company can become completely anonymous, with no way of finding out who's in charge if they don't want you to.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2003/05/29/ccom29.xml (971 words)

	New Sisyphus - PDX: The Future of Public Diplomacy: Cutting Out the Middleman
		In whatever country you choose to name, our PD officers are studying the host country’s press in the morning and spending the rest of their working day talking to reports and editors, making corrections, clarifications, suggestions, and getting stories out.
		When they aren’t doing that, they are prepping our people—from lowly functionaries like ourselves to the Secretary of State—for interaction with the press, drilling in talking points, pointing out topics to avoid or to stress and then, afterwards, handling the inevitable press conference.
		If such a move were harnessed to the already-existing infrastructure of VoA and the other Broadcasting Board of Governors initiatives, the USG could launch a world-wide media offensive, taking out the middlemen and their unrelenting knee-jerk assumptions.
	newsisyphus.blogspot.com /2005/05/future-of-public-diplomacy-cutting-out.html (1300 words)

	Introduction:
		One aspect that puts the middlemen in danger of being cut out of the distribution channel is convenience.
		“But cutting out the middleman also can mean new kinds of problems, such as figuring out how to fulfill onesie and twosie orders from consumers, setting up new customer-service centers with backlash from retailers and other spurned channel partners.” (King 54) This has caused a few companies to rethink their e-commerce strategy.
		The concept of cutting out the middlemen to increase profits is valid, but companies that move to this idea need to understand all of the concepts that made a company like Dell successful.
	www.student.ipfw.edu /~geigkl01/k490.htm (2444 words)

	Salon.com Technology \| Life on the edge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The geek-driven world of new "decentralized" technologies like Wi-Fi, blogging and Web services is more about cutting out the middleman than finding a business model.
		That was certainly the feeling I got from this week's Supernova conference on decentralization -- a gathering in Palo Alto, Calif., for which the über-geeks of Silicon Valley and beyond (to use the label suggested by one of the software-industry legends in attendance) turned out in full force.
		There was Bob Frankston, who'd coded VisiCalc, the personal computer's first "killer app," and a row behind him sat Mitch Kapor, whose Lotus 1-2-3 replaced VisiCalc as the spreadsheet of choice in the early '80s.
	www.salon.com /tech/col/rose/2002/12/13/supernova/print.html (1102 words)

	TBIFOC - Cutting out the middleman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Infotainment is evolving, and this is the furry little creature scurrying aroudn the piles of dinosaur-poop.
		I'd love to see more of these kinds of "cybershows" crop up, cutting out the middle-(cave)man of dinosaur-like broadcast or cablecast transmission.
		Now if only the FCC would let the meteor come to make all the dinosaurs extinct, making room in the spectrum of full exploitation of wireless broadband in the former broadcast spectrum.
	www.isfullofcrap.com /oldcrap/010096.html (151 words)

	Craig Northey Journal : Cutting Out the Middleman
		Somewhere beyond the $11.25 swipe of a hologram encrypted Visa and a horse track turnstile is Cinema 2 out of 10.
		You are about to escape the middleman after climbing over the immense wall of crap he has piled in front of you.
		I was dragging a hockey bag full of candy and wearing a too small North Vancouver Minor Hockey jersey as the kids from the hockey clubs danced around and handed out candy to spectators along the route.
	www.craignorthey.com /journal/archives/000390.shtml (812 words)

	DIRECT TO DISC TV ELIMINATES THE MIDDLEMAN
		The time is ripe for some forward-thinking television auteur to give the network middleman the old heave-ho and release a new series straight to DVD.
		Scheduling-challenged but hyper-keen about profits, Fox put out DVD boxed sets of "Family Guy" and sales have passed the 2.5 million mark, opening doors for other long-forgotten or merely ignored series that networks and studios had given up on.
		But when the first season of "The Office" was released on DVD last year, critics from essentially every media outlet contributed glowing reviews of the show, and the curious (myself included) bought the series, all three whopping hours of it, sight unseen.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2004/09/12/PKGHT8LLPD1.DTL (1107 words)

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	www.bestpricecomputers.ltd.uk /profile/howcheap.htm (1080 words)

	Miami, Detroit Top List of America's 'Most Independent Cities' for Home Sellers
		Since 1997, ForSaleByOwner.com has saved consumers billions of dollars by cutting out the middleman and giving people the freedom to sell their homes and cars without a transaction fee.
		"Miamians are on the cutting edge of many trends, and now they've embraced the idea of buying and selling real estate without interference from a broker," Sambrotto said.
		Cleveland, OH About ForSaleByOwner.com With the largest database of homes for sale without a broker, ForSaleByOwner.com is committed to cutting out the middleman and connecting buyers and sellers online.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-09-2004/0002227860&EDATE= (648 words)

	Library Trends: Cutting Out the Middleman: Patron-Initiated Interlibrary Loans - Southern Illinois University library - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Library Trends: Cutting Out the Middleman: Patron-Initiated Interlibrary Loans - Southern Illinois University library - Abstract
		Cutting Out the Middleman: Patron-Initiated Interlibrary Loans - Southern Illinois University library - Abstract
		Today remote access to other libraries' OPACs is being used by a growing number of libraries to speed the interlibrary loan process and deal effectively with the growing volume of borrowing.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1387/is_1_47/ai_53523842 (1310 words)

	Clients
		Since 1999, ForSaleByOwner.com has saved consumers billions of dollars by cutting out the middleman and giving people the freedom to sell their homes without a transaction fee.
		Atlanta at #3 (2.1%), New York at #4, (2%), and Houston at #5 (1.7%) round out the top five.
		The growing popularity of independent home sales in New York — whose real estate market has traditionally been dominated by brokers — was another significant development this year, Sambrotto said.
	www.mkpr.com /clientsprfsbo.html (661 words)

	[bl] Power suppliers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I like to have facts and time to make my own decisions based on such facts.
		Erin 8) On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:10:22PM -0400, Bren wrote: > As I understand it, going with DE is more like inserting a middleman between > OPG (the power generators) and TH (who own the wires).
		I heard him out and >> then asked him a few questions.
	lists.samurai.com /pipermail/bryans-list/2001-May/005562.html (285 words)

	Going it alone in the housing market
		Cutting out the middleman leaves buyers and sellers to do their own footwork--and paperwork
		My wife and I are currently living in College Terrace in Palo Alto and are in need of a larger house.
		He also points out that non-professionals don't know how to set the price of a home, nor how to market it successfully.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/real_estate/1999_Feb_12.HOME12.html (907 words)

	classical music - andante - online auctions changing the market for everything from violins to ophicleides
		But she had also found that dealers' prices were often marked up "three or four times" from what they had paid at auction — an excessive rate, in her opinion, even taking into account their expertise in authenticating and repairing the instruments.
		Emboldened by a lack of alternatives, Khitruk checked out the catalogue at Tarisio, an auctioneer of string instruments that conducts its sales exclusively on the Web.
		She bid on two violins, and won one for what she still considers a bargain.
	www.andante.com /magazine/article.cfm?id=17162 (1349 words)

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