Key components of our model were developed to work together to make it a plug and play operation. First and foremost, Quik developed proprietary software called "Cheetah". Cheetah interfaces with the Quik network to completely automate administration, such as setting up customer accounts. A franchisee can sign up a new customer and enroll them into the customer billing with just a few simple steps.

The Quik Internet network is engineered to provide optimal online service and technology, with a system of IBM Web servers. The line of RS/6000 IBM Web servers became the choice for Quik since these servers are tested by industry experts as the world's fastest servers. In fact, the RS/6000 earned a world record for recording 963,948 hits per minute as the official Web server of the 2000 Champion Wimbledon games. Through the franchise model of pooled resources, Quik can boast the fact that it's one of the few Internet providers and hosting companies to operate with these high-end servers. Typically, companies operating with RS/6000 servers are large organizations such as banking institutions.

What does this mean to Quik franchisees? They benefit from the high-quality Internet products they sell and competitive advantage they have through the IBM servers. What does this mean to our franchisees' customers? Their Web sites will be hosted on a highly secure, robust and scalable Web server that will allow site visitors to breeze through Web pages and give their site credibility from consistently being up and live on the Web. What does the mean to our Masters? They have the competitive advantage as a strong selling point in both franchising Quik Internet units and selling hosting accounts for under any corporate unit they opt to have.