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- July 1993 Catalog
- Examine any program for only $5.oo
- All programs work on IBM compatible (MSDOS/PCDOS) computers
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- KNOW WHO YOU'RE HIRING!
- The Employee Management System is the highly-accurate
- "personality management" program that can save you a fortune in
- employment costs.
- REDUCE EMPLOYEE TURNOVER. Employee turnover is extremely
- expensive. It reduces production and increases internal friction. It
- increases training and operational costs. EMS actually helps you
- control and reduce employee turnover. It is so effective that many
- businesses report a turnover reduction of 50% or more!
- HIRE THE RIGHT PEOPLE. Every job has its own "ideal
- personality". Would you place a quiet, thoughtful person out in the
- sales field, or does that job require a self-motivated go-getter? EMS
- evaluates the work personality requirements of any job. Then it will
- instantly tell you which of your applicants matches that job.
- KNOW THE WORK PERSONALITY of the applicant in a matter of
- minutes. Discover the positive work traits, decision making methods,
- stamina level, management methods and performance characteristics of
- any employee/ applicant in less than five minutes.
- KNOW WHAT MOTIVATES YOUR EMPLOYEES. EMS tells the motivational
- and demotivational factors for each employee. This will help you
- know how to motivate an employee, to make that employee happy, and
- also how to avoid demotivating that person.
- REDUCE ADVERTISING & INTERVIEWING COSTS. EMS keeps track of
- all employees and job applicants so that when a position opens,
- applicants can be matched to the job immediately, without having to
- repeat the expensive hiring process.
- The Employee Management System is an accurate and amazing answer
- to the task of hiring employees and then keeping them happy once they
- are hired. (R:95)
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- Rated in Compute! Magazine as "One of the World's Best 101 Programs !"
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- EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 5
- The Next Step in Personality Management
- EMS5 is our incredible next generation management program. It
- includes everything featured in our basic EMS package, plus adds the
- following features:
- STRESS EVALUATION SYSTEM. Stress can be very detrimental to your
- business. Excessive stress in employees causes irritation, loss of
- production, and eventually loss of that employee. EMS5 shows you key
- areas of potentially harmful stress so that you can help your employee
- overcome that stress before it becomes a business liability.
- PERSONNEL DATABASE SYSTEM lets you track important employee/
- applicant information. Define your own information requirements and
- design reports according to your needs. Keep records of any employee
- information you want: vacation and sick leave, work experience,
- personal and family information, job skills, and much more. PDS ties
- in to the Personality Evaluation Program to provide you with extensive
- reference capabilities. Do you want to locate all applicants in your
- files that live within your city limits, are age 18-34 and have
- outgoing personalities? With PDS you can do this and much more.
- TEAM EVALUATION SYSTEM. Manage your work groups. Increase your
- management ability. Knowing and understanding the basic work
- personality of your employees is a tremendous advantage. But knowing
- how they will get along with close work associates, especially when
- teamed together on a project, is even more advantageous.
- The TEAM system helps you understand how members of a group will
- function for the duration of a project. Will they get along well
- together? Are they compatible in work habits? Who should be assigned
- which tasks? These questions and many others can be answered by using
- this powerful yet easy-to-implement program.
- How will the team "leader" function in this position? What will be
- the leadership style? Help the work group leader to better understand
- and motivate the members of the team. Equally important, this
- program will warn you of potential pitfalls and incompatibilities and
- help you turn potential liabilities into assets.
- How will the members of the team function with one another? EMS 5
- can help them learn how to better cooperate and will help you avoid
- those dangerous "personality conflicts."
- EMS 5 can help you in several areas:
- * Reduce employee turnover
- * Improve production and increase job satisfaction
- * Enhance company communications
- * Hire the right people for the job
- * Reduce interview time and manpower waste
- * Locate key areas of stress before they become a job liability
- * Keep track of employee information
- * Prepare "help wanted" ads for maximum benefit
- * Evaluate work teams, understand compatability and
- incompatability factors
- * Understand how to motivate your employees and avoid demotivation
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- EMS5 is the answer for today's employment challenges. (R:495)
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- PERSONALITY ANALYSIS SYSTEM
- PAS is our highly-accurate program that is designed to help the
- individual better understand his own personality and those of friends,
- acquaintances and loved ones. PAS encourages open communication
- between adults and teens, helping to bridge the "generation gap".
- It is valuable as a personal communications tool between friends,
- marriage mates, business acquaintances and any other relationship
- where personality is a strong influencing factor. PAS also offers a
- "job match" system which will help you to determine the correct job
- for your personality.
- PAS is the personal/family version of our popular EMS program It
- works in several ways:
- PAS IS ACCURATE. The accuracy will astound you.
- IMPROVE YOURSELF. PAS helps you know yourself by describing your
- strengths, motivational factors and demotivational factors. You can
- use your strengths and build them to your advantage.
- JOB MATCH helps you to determine whether or not a job fits in with
- your basic personality. Is the environment one that will encourage
- you to work and motivate you to produce your best? Will it allow you
- to use your personal skills to the utmost? (R:95)
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- DON'T SHOOT YOUR COMPUTER!
- The 7-Day Computer Learning Course is the easiest computer course
- ever designed. If your computer is confusing to you, this is probably
- because no one ever explained DOS, the Disk Operating System. DOS is
- the heart of your computer. Trying to use a computer without
- knowledge of DOS is like trying to build a house without a foundation.
- 7-Day teaches you how to use DOS in easy-to-understand, non-technical
- language (we speak English). This wonderful course will have you
- understanding your computer in one week (or less) by way of its hands-
- on approach. (R:25)
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- INSTANT SALES AND INVENTORY TRACKER!
- The AMAZING CASH REGISTER is a combination front counter sales and
- inventory system. You can perform both separately or combined (ie
- stand-alone or integrated). ACR allows you to keep real-time track
- of inventory, write sales tickets, keep track of client information,
- sales tax and produce terrific reports. If used as a front-counter
- ticket system, it allows the use of a cash drawer and light-pens/bar
- code readers. It is ideal for the businessman who has wanted a sales
- ticket / inventory system, but has been put off by the complexity and
- high prices of other packages. ACR can be interfaced with our AMAZING
- BOOKKEEPER package for a fully-functional system. (R:95)
- Registration brings you a FREE copy of our AMAZING LAYAWAY program.
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- WRITE AND PUBLISH YOUR OWN COMPUTER GAMES!
- GAMESCAPE is the world's most powerful and easiest to use game
- creation system. It enables you to write and distribute your own
- graphic adventure games, role-playing games, storybooks and more (no
- royalty fee!). Describe locations and rooms, objects, recognizable
- words, messages and occurrences that happen within the game. You can
- also include sound, music, maps and hi-res color graphic pictures.
- Gamescape encodes your games and allows games to be "linked" so your
- adventures can be of any length.
- GAMESCAPE is very easy to use. It includes a Graphics Editor, Game
- Editor, Compiler System (turns your game into computer-readable code)
- and Run-Time module (allows the game to be played by others).
- Gamescape comes in two versions: LITE (economical basic starter
- version) and GRAPHIC (deluxe version, hi-res color graphics and
- advanced commands). There is a version of Gamescape to suit every
- pocketbook. If you design games, GAMESCAPE is a must-have !
- (R:LITE 35 GRAPHIC 95)
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- A FILING CABINET ON CAFFEINE
- The KEEPING TRACK INFORMATION SYSTEM is the fastest, easiest to use
- "database" system you will ever see. The package includes three
- programs:
- KEEPING TRACK. An incredible filing system which has two modes:
- a "free form" mode, which means that it requires no advanced planning,
- no structure, no programming, no layout. The second "set form" style
- allows you full power over the layout and report formation of your
- data. Either system will allow you to enter information and then
- locate it instantly by entering any word or phrase. Includes custom
- report generation (design your own reports). Fantastic!
- AMAZING FILE CABINET is our "flat-form" database system that allows
- you to design specific data layouts and then "fill in the forms". It
- is terrific for club membership tracking or any type of consistent-
- form data requirements. Also includes custom report generation.
- AMAZING ADDRESSER is a very easy to use mailing system. Print to
- single address labels, three-across address labels, or envelopes !
- The Keeping Track Information System is the way to organize all
- that information you've been needing and have it available right at
- your fingertips, instantly! (R:95)
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- ANOTHER LIFELESS PLANET AND ME WITH NO BEER also includes COMPU-NERD
- NOBEER is an incredibly funny science fiction adventure game that
- is, astounding as it may seem, logical. You are an astronaut who has
- crash landed on an alien planet (again). Beware the BLADDER BEASTS,
- SLURPERS, AIR SQUIDS, and above all, the deadly PUN PALM (really,
- we're not kidding. That Pun Palm is a pain... We're just not frond
- of it at all). ANOTHER LIFELESS PLANET AND ME WITH NO BEER is an
- adventure gaming must have.
- COMPU-NERD is a tongue-in-cheek program that tells you if you have
- the dread maladies Computerus Nerditis or Bozoitis-Jerkonus. Are you
- a computer nerd? Find out today! (R:10 ea)
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- ENTER THE WORLDS OF FANTASY and SCIENCE FICTION
- RingWielder is our "book on a disk" role-playing game. The disk
- contains full rules for this popular game. Also included is GIANT
- SPACE SLUG, a lively arcade game in which you are the nasty, slimy,
- icky slug. (R: RingWielder 35 Slug 10)
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- FUNGAL MAN TO THE RESCUE!
- The Fungal Man Game Pak contains four games on one disk:
- FUNGAL MAN. A thinking arcade game where you, super-hero of tens
- of people, try to save the world from deadly fungus. (R:15, others 10)
- SWINE! Excellent strategy game.
- FALLOUT. Un-tetris arcade game
- MAROONED AGAIN. Incredibly funny adventure game.
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- DO YOUR OWN BOOKKEEPING
- The AMAZING BOOKKEEPER is the world's easiest-to-use ledger system.
- It will help you track your business and personal finances. Reports
- include Balance Individual Account, Trial Balance, Profit and Loss
- Statement (income statement), Balance Sheet, and List of Transactions.
- Produce customized reports and perform departmentalization of
- accounts. Integrates with our AMAZING CASH REGISTER program.
- Included is the DREW'S AMORTIZATION SYSTEM which will help you
- evaluate the cost of loans and mortgages as well as the future value
- of investments. (R:95)
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- Note: Our software contains matter. Any accidental contact with
- antimatter is likely to cause explosions which may result in the
- instantaneous elimination of life as we know it. ---------------------
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- We do not sell to Zombies due to Federal Statutes prohibiting the
- formation of contracts post-mortem. ----------------------------------
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- Many of our clients ask us how we manage to keep prices so low on our
- software. It's those @#$#% permanent price stickers...
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- SHAREWARE is a term which refers to a method of marketing.
- Operational copies of the programs are made available for a small
- duplication charge. You are allowed to try out the program for a
- short period of time (usually 10-30 days). If you decide to continue
- using the program, you send us the listed registration fee. If not,
- you discontinue use of the program and pass it on to a friend.
- Registration always brings you extras like a printed manual, the
- newest version of the program (which often contains additional
- programs and features), free telephone support and the legal right to
- use the program. Shareware is a wonderful way for you to examine our
- software before buying it, which is a good deal for both of us. It
- means that when you do buy our product you're already satisfied.
- That's the way we like to do business.
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- All program titles and the term TRY-THEN-BUY are TM Dennis Drew.
- Copyright 1993 Dennis Drew.
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