Interviewer: Telemarketers have a 2 percent response rate, and cost $1.00 per call. Direct mailings cost us 40 cents per mailing and have a 0.50 percent rate of response. Our payment attachments have a 0.25 rate of response, but only cost us 5 cents each.
You: I'm going to assume we will sell one-hour phone cards. That will cost us $9.00 for the minutes and a dollar per card - so each card costs us $10.
Interviewer: That sounds reasonable.
You: And what is our expected revenue on a one-hour phone card? What is the current market rate for a 60-minute phone card?
Interviewer: Assume it's 50 cents a minute.
You: So if we sell the cards for $30, we have a $20 profit, minus our expenditures on marketing.
Interviewer: What's our cost structure look like?
You: Okay, let's figure
