MAKE WISE DECISIONS IN USING THE INTERNET
April 1, 2006
EDWARD HARRIS AT LARGE!
MAKE WISE DECISIONS IN USING THE INTERNET
AND PUT IT TO WORK OR YOU!
Surfing the internet and doing business online could sometimes be costly and frustrating but most times challenging. When you investigate certain Free Offers, you end up most times with just an empty offer that grabbed your attention with no intention whatsoever of giving you anything free, by which time you are hooked. Many times they suck you in with a free report only to end up adding your name and address to their data base and from that moment begin to bombard you with offer after offer in an endless succession. A new development is that a Subscriber’s box is placed at the entry point to effect payment so if you change your mind in the process you are added to the data base anyway.
You must be able to exercise self control and keep your credit card in your pocket. Never be too quick to take out your credit card to conclude any transaction on the web, sleep on it, most of the time sensitive offers will be there the next day and possibly a long time after. Then there are certain offers that we cannot access as a customer can only pay by Pay Pal or other clearing companies. In the case of Pay Pal they need you to establish an account with them which can only be achieved if you have a USA address and a bank account. Storm Pay is no more what it used to be, they are no longer processing credit card payments. Storm Pay is now Storm Pay Auctions, as can be found at www.stormpay.com Be careful how you put money into your credit card processing company account only pay as you go. Settle each transaction promptly from your credit card not from your account with the company. Deposits are for banks.
Everyone wants to own a website and everyone should but it will take upkeep and daily attention. Too many people just commission a website and leave it to tend to itself. No, it will not give you any results that way. You must keep it fresh. A great way to keep people coming back to your website is to post new pictures on a regular basis, let your clients know who is the employee of the month, get your customers testimonials up on your site, include a picture gallery, find creative ways of doing things. Get excited about your website, put your email and website address on every piece of correspondence and boldly on your envelopes, maybe a special rubberstamp could draw greater attention. Give it some prominence on your business cards. After all if you can get people to your website that could be the best medium to introduce your company.
Too many people treat a website like any other acquisition which they are all excited about when new and after a while their interest just wane. A website should never be treated that way. Your website is your shop front and show window to the world. Potential clients from all across the global village will take the opportunity presented to them by the worldwide web to enter your domain. Have you seen the possibilities? Many of us have ideas but it will take technical and marketing skills to translate ideas into marketable products and services. If people with these two skills fail to get together, we will never be players in the global internet E-Commerce arena.
There is a problem that is plaguing many website owners – unscrupulous webmasters who want to retain control of the websites even though they are paid to develop it. They want to be responsible for renewing the domain registration and the hosting agreement, and in some cases they either fail to contact the owner of the site when the services are up for renewal or they forget completely to renew the services that are so vital to keeping websites connected to the worldwide web. You may recall a period when very popular local sites where being taken over by persons who sought to profit from defaulters and put pornography on the sites with the hope of blackmailing the original owners into buying back the sites at great cost to them. Securing web addresses of successful companies and creative names is a business. In recent times the brokers secure domain names and put them up for sale. The worldwide web is a fascinating place. It affords anyone the opportunity to establish a virtual presence be it an office, a service, a corporation, a retail outlet, whatever their heart desires, just purchase a domain name and off you go. That is your deed to your piece of the property on the world wide web.
I am inviting you to get involved in visiting local websites and send an email to the owners about your observations and I hope that at some stage someone will organize a campaign to identify the top 25 or 100 websites on the island. While it is very clear that businesses provide dollars in the economy of which a major portion is used to purchase goods and services, there is no real evidence that there is any willingness on the part of those who can do simple things to engage and energise the productive forces in the country, are willing to produce programmes that will create such an environment.
Telecommunication technology is also playing a major role and VOIP systems are making a difference. Try www.skype.com and talk to your friends around the world for free and there are many other services where a small fee is charged as low as two cents US per minutes. Today your emails can reach you via the cell phone and you can stay in touch with your home base from any part of the world and many other features are added regularly. It is time to expand the use of cell phones by introducing a Mobile Telephone Directory especially since mobile telephone customers no longer pay for incoming calls and most businesspersons print their cell numbers on their business cards.
While we claim to be living in modern times where technology has changed many things that hitherto would have been considered impossible to be achieved, we are now living with the evidence of its influence on society without truly embracing it. We must use technology in the same way persons in the developed world are using it to amass wealth. The most interesting aspect of the internet business is that there are several ideas that can be duplicated without copyright infringement.
Whatever the problems associated with the internet, it is still a place to establish a presence and utilize your right to accessing information you can use, but as with everything else apply caution, apply the old saying, more haste, less speed. Be cool when deciding to make an investment via the internet. Talk with friends and business associates if you are in doubt. The offers come to you well packaged that will get you in a mood that would make you part with your last dollar only to realize that the guy who is ranting and raving about how many millions he is raking in, it is really from the people who buy his manuals and not from the results of the manual he is offering. It is not that you should be upset with the guys who make money on the internet, it is the way some of them rob people outright as you will discover that most of the offers that promise to make you rich only take your money and leave you in a poorer state than before you parted with your hard earn money.
Let us meet in cyber space visit my archive at www.stluciasimplybeautiful.com In the meantime, be blessed, keep the faith, God is in charge.
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