Common Internet Myths

Written by Lisa Spurlin


Myth #1 - No one makes money onrepparttar Internet

There are many Web sites making money. ActivMedia's most recent study showed that 31% of all commercial Web sites state that their site is "profitable from sales now". Of course, that also means that 69% of them aren't making money. I'm not surprised though. When you consider that 95% of all Web sites are terrible because they were designed by programmers, graphic artists and hobbyists that do not understand marketing, it's amazing that 31% are making money.

Myth #2 - You'll "get rich quick" onrepparttar 118898 Internet

This, of course, isrepparttar 118899 opposite of Myth #1, but it is also a myth. Nobody gets rich quick, onrepparttar 118900 Internet or anywhere else. How often have you seen Web site promotions that tell you that, once your Web page is up, you'll have to rent a truck to haul all your checks torepparttar 118901 bank? These promoters always talk about a Web site as a single "home page", yet there are almost NO Web sites with only one page that are doing well. Successful Web sites are content rich and have many pages. This doesn't mean you cannot make serious money onrepparttar 118902 Internet. Of course you can...after all, 31% ofrepparttar 118903 commercial Web sites are making a profit onrepparttar 118904 Internet. You just have to dorepparttar 118905 right things,repparttar 118906 right way.

Myth #3 - You can spend $200 on a Web site and make millions of dollars.

This may have been true back inrepparttar 118907 "Wild, Wild West" days ofrepparttar 118908 Internet (way back in 1995), whenrepparttar 118909 competition was far less than it is today.

Two ofrepparttar 118910 top sites in those days were "Hot! Hot! Hot!" and a company called Virtual Vineyards. Hot! Hot! Hot! was a husband and wife that made hot sauce inrepparttar 118911 kitchen and sold it onrepparttar 118912 Internet. Virtual Vineyards only existed onrepparttar 118913 Internet and sold wine. For about a year, these wererepparttar 118914 top sucess stories. They started with nothing and make a couple of million dollars. A real Horatio Alger story. Anyone can do it.

Wrong! Today there are probably 10,000 sites selling hot sauce. When wasrepparttar 118915 last time you heard about Hot! Hot! Hot!? More than likely, they were creamed by sites that were loaded with content, offered almost an infinite range of products and made ordering fromrepparttar 118916 site very simple. Inrepparttar 118917 "good old days", none of that mattered. Just being onrepparttar 118918 Web was enough. The novelty of it would bring you a lot of business.

Think about it. If you're not going to invest in your Internet presence, why should anyone else? There are plenty of 12 year old kids and Third World Country businesses that will slap a Web site together for you for $29.95, but quality always wins and your Web success will pass you by.

GREECE BANS ALL PC GAMES !!!!!!!!!!!!

Written by VARITIMIDIS CHRIS


GREEK INTERNET CAFE UNION

New Greek law bans all PC-Games!

The Greek government has recently decided to ban all PC-Games in public and private places alike.

In an absurd and unprecedented way that conforms to regiments where computers andrepparttar internet are considered evil,repparttar 118897 Greek Parliament has effectively outlawed all computer games in Greece, even those that can be played onrepparttar 118898 Internet!

That is to say that games such as Age of Empires, Counter-Strike, BackGammon or Chess on Yahoo! are considered illegal from now on.

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