Looking forward . . . Looking back

Written by Jenny Bailey


Looking forward . . . Looking back

Our company is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year – a long time by Internet standards. This prompted me to take a look at what has been happening withrepparttar Internet inrepparttar 108944 last decade.

Remember when Web pages were grey with black text? Remember whenrepparttar 108945 best Web editor was notepad? Take a trip down memory lane . . .

1993 First graphics-based Web browser - NCSA Mosaic - introduced. Traffic onrepparttar 108946 Internet expands by 341,634% annual growth. 1994 Netscape Communications Corp founded. Yahoo founded by 2 PhD students from Stanford. "Spamming" begins - unsolicited bulk emails. Standard agreed for 28.8K modems. 1995 Netscape launches onrepparttar 108947 stockmarket - share value rises to $3 billion on first day. AltaVista search engine is launched by DEC (remember them?). Java programming language launched by Sun Microsystems. Registration of Domain Names no longer free. 1996 Age ofrepparttar 108948 Internet has arrived. 40 million people connected. More than $1 billion spent at Internet shopping malls. Internet telephony starts. Promises a major reduction in call costs (which proved unfounded). 1997 World-wide Web Consortium publishes HTML Version 4 including multi-media features and support for different languages.

1998 Over 100 million Internet users. Network Solutions registers its 2 millionth domain. World-wide Web Consortium releases specification for XML. Technologies ofrepparttar 108949 year - eCommerce, eAuctions, portals. 1999 First full-service bank available only onrepparttar 108950 Internet (First Internet Bank of Indiana). Technologies ofrepparttar 108951 year - eTrade, online banking, MP3. 2000 Technologies ofrepparttar 108952 year - ASP, Napster. The dot com "bubble" becamerepparttar 108953 dot com "bomb". Reality bites back. 2001 Broadband gaining popularity. 72% of Americans userepparttar 108954 Internet. Half of Europeans now online. Number of active Internet subscribers rose by 11.5% duringrepparttar 108955 year. English losing its dominance onrepparttar 108956 web. 43% native English speakers, 32% native speakers of European languages and 24.7% Asian languages. 2002 Over 600 million Internet users world-wide. Over 111 million new Internet users this year. US consumers spend $2.2 billion on online purchases in a single week in December. Online sales double inrepparttar 108957 UK this year.

"What Do I Sell?"

Written by Shahnaz Rauf


"What Do I Sell?"

Copyright [C] 2003 Shahnaz Rauf, www.snzeport.com

What do I sell? This is a very critical question that I get asked very often. Yes there are loads of people out there who have obtained allrepparttar right online marketing tools, they have learned allrepparttar 108943 concepts and techniques of online marketing, yet they don`t know what to sell. Yes they keep shuffling along from program to program hoping to strike it rich somewhere. They loose a lot of money alongrepparttar 108944 way to ultimately get disillusioned.

Now If you plan to operate onrepparttar 108945 internet, your first and foremost product should be yourself.

Yes, you are your own product. You need to sell yourself to develop trust and credibility –repparttar 108946 basic elements for any sales process. To do so you need to develop your own mailing list. This is not just a list of email addresses, this is a highly responsive list of followers who trust and respect you torepparttar 108947 core.

Once you have got such a killer list, you may proceed to

- Recommend other People`s tried and tested quality products and earn through affiliate commissions.

- You can sell advertising space in your newsletter.

- Or you may even convert your list into a paid membership site or a monthly subscription based list.

- And ultimately Develop your own product line.

Of course there are people earning incredible fortunes just by selling other peoples products, but such top affiliates are really few and far between, countable on your fingers – they also usually have huge lists with a trusted set of followers.

But to reachrepparttar 108948 ultimate bliss in marketing you need to develop your own product line. Hererepparttar 108949 big question is

How do you come up with your own killer product line? here isrepparttar 108950 basic procedure:

1. Define What you really want to do

Here your own interest or what you really want to do is important. You may not be able to attain any great heights without that spark of passion driving you along. Also you do not want to get stuck in another dead end project where even getting started becomes a big challenge. Sorepparttar 108951 all defining question is What do you enjoy doing? Or rather,

What can you do effortlessly without taxing yourself too much – work on your strengths and weaknesses, which ones can you polish up to use successfully.

Once you have sorted out your own inner turmoil and discovered what you really want to do, you have got your niche category or boundaries of operation. Next you need to proceed withrepparttar 108952 equally important second step:

2. What dorepparttar 108953 people want?

Or rather what do your potential customers want. To be able to sell successfully you have to find a problem/ need within your niche and providerepparttar 108954 perfect solution. So here comesrepparttar 108955 part of doingrepparttar 108956 market research. No don’t be turned off, online market research may not be as complicated asrepparttar 108957 offline version.

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