16 Mar, 2008
An Introduction to the Internet Entrepreneur Series
Posted by: adam In: entrepreneurs| technology| young entrepreneur
The Internet now poses as one of the worlds most powerful and influential tools, with a seemingly endless mass of communities, developers, users and information, whilst also rapidly becoming our single most used method of communication and socialization. The web manages to seamlessly combine every category of media, whether it be television broadcasting, radio shows or even your daily newspaper articles, into three letters and a dot.For a lot of everyday people, the Internet is just a source of information. It’s where they would go to find the times their local cinema was showing a film they wanted to watch, or a service they liked to use for connecting with other everyday people through online networking sites such as MySpace or FaceBook, or to simply find out a definition of a phrase they need for a crossword puzzle. It would be fair to say that this is probably the largest general use of the Internet across for everyone, no matter the age.However, over the past few years, consumer’s utilization of the Internet has grown so swiftly, that many businesses have had huge sales booms by being able to offer high quality goods at much lower prices than what people are used to traditionally. The reason being an online business can run without the need for shop assistants, large utility bills and definitely no rent or mortgage, therefore cutting the fixed-costs of a business down to an absolute fraction of those of a bricks and mortar business.Through the advancements in technology and the ever-growing “electric money” age which have led to this massive redevelopment of the world wide web, businesses and retailers are able to build high quality, reliable, fraud-proofed stores and services, into an online environment with very little hassle. Buying online has been an inspiration and a reinvention of the net. Granted, buying online has been around for a very long time, but previously it has been riddled with fraudsters and identity thieves; and it has generally not been the most reliable and user friendly of experiences. However, with this redevelopment of internet services and applications, more and more people are attracted onto the web everyday, which leads them to pursuing their hobbies and interests at an online degree, by joining forums, following blogs and participating with online debates and activities, or just simply fulfilling their spare time.With social networking sites like MySpace and FaceBook sustaining tremendous usage, and online blogging sites like Wordpress and Blogger at an all time high, the indication is that internet users are now logging on for a hobby/social-interest and for fun, as well as using it as their source for information and reference. Over the next few posts in this series, you will learn the ins and outs of how to harness the power of this massive reservoir of possibility, and use it’s influence to create yourself a successful and income generating business to which you can expand upon to any extent your imagination and determination will let you.