Internet: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER - EMAILS WITH KIKI

Written by Ron Kimball

Once in a while, you meet someone who has repparttar

gift of expressing herself. I met that someone in Clarissa 'kiki' Frampton.

Kiki is more than just an expressive person. She publishes her own e-zine called Start-Smartz E-zine. She's also a successful business person, as well as, one of repparttar 119044 most open, generous people you'll have repparttar 119045 opportunity to meet.

She knows what it takes to make a business successful online AND offline.

I got repparttar 119046 chance to communciate with Kiki through a series of emails and put together this interesting 'conversation'. With her blessing, of course.

Her contact information precedes repparttar 119047 interview. Enjoy. RK

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Clarissa 'kiki' Frampton "YOUR" success IS my business! ICQ 115517255 http://start-smartz.com webmistress@start-smartz.com

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Ron: Thanks for taking repparttar 119048 time to share your philosophy about repparttar 119049 Internet and how it affects us. Kiki: I will be a 'Ramblin Rose' only because I like to talk to anyone who will listen to me..;)

Ron: lol That's good news for us. When did you start your journey on repparttar 119050 Internet?

Kiki: I have been on and off repparttar 119051 Internet since 1995. I have learned alot..this is just a learning process.

Ron: That's repparttar 119052 truth. Why do think repparttar 119053 Internet is so addicting?

Kiki: Because it is learning, something different and exciting and challenging every single day. Where else can you get this much interaction with as many different people? Nowhere! This is repparttar 119054 age of information. We can't seem to get enough and when our brains go on 'overload' we crave more. Ron: Yes. We do seem obsessed with repparttar 119055 Internet. Why do you think that is?

Kiki: Another name for our obsession here is "give me" or "gimme"....we are like kids in a candy store. "I want".."gimme." The Internet is our playground.. Our 'candy store.' We see opportunities and wealth in abundance...and we want it ALL! Children normally have adults with them in repparttar 119056 candy store telling them "No..you can't have that." So we were deprived as children from all that candy.. and now we are going to indulge ourselves..;) Ron: What a true analogy. What is your philosophy in regard to your own e-zine, Start-Smartz?

Kiki: My philosophy is...give it to them. That's it. One simple word to remember..GIVE. Of course, you must do it honestly and from repparttar 119057 heart. You need to enjoy giving and helping people.

My e-zine, Start-Smartz began in May 2000. I just celebrated my One Year Anniversary and it has been quite a year. My goals and ideals have changed many times over this last year. What started out as an avenue to get a list to mail my opportunities to, ended up being a full time job! I spend and average of 25-30 hours a week on SS. But I enjoy it. Ron: You obviously have some views on repparttar 119058 'rise of e-zines' and their popularity. What do you think about them and this information overload you mentioned?

Kiki: That is why e-zines are so popular..information. The more information you pack into your e-zine repparttar 119059 better it is.

Who is your target market? The information junkie. Terri Seymour has a great e-zine..she packs hers with information for everyone. There's entrepreneurial stuff, but also humor, fun sites, sometimes kids stuff..something for everyone! Great read for a junkie!

Ron: I agree with you. Terri's e-zine, Web Success Ezine, is great. It's jam packed with "stuff." Now, I say this because I believe it. You truly do seem to want to help people out. That's what drew me to you. What would you say was that turning point for you in what has become your Internet philosophy? Kiki: A saying I read once was repparttar 119060 turning point for me.. repparttar 119061 light bulb went off. Of course for me it took a few days to sink in....;) I'll try to recapture it for you..perhaps you've seen repparttar 119062 saying or will be able to "get" what is it's essence.

Dot Com Crash: Whose Fault Is it Anyway?

Written by Rob Spiegel

The statistics coming off repparttar

crash in dot com stocks are adding up to a bleak picture. This week I read an editorial in Electronic News by managing editor Peter Brown that presented some disturbing numbers. According to Reuters Media, a total of 100,000 jobs have vanished from repparttar 119043

Internet economy since December , 1999. A full 50,000 of those jobs have disappeared since February. In three bloody months, repparttar 119044

dot com damage has doubled. In April, 55 dot com companies shut their doors, which is up from repparttar 119045

March total of 44. Since January of last year, 435 Internet-based companies have folded. More than half of these closures occurred this year alone.

The carnage has spread far beyond Silicon Valley. Seems much of our economy is now shaking because of repparttar 119046 dot com fall out. Even repparttar 119047 major television networks, ABC, NBC and CBS blame their current advertising revenue woes on repparttar 119048 dot com failures. Certainly Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Intel are suffering from fall-off in demand for their Internet-boom products. Many observers blame repparttar 119049 downturn itself on repparttar 119050 popping dot com bubble. I guess repparttar 119051 failure of a few hundred Internet start-ups can drag down repparttar 119052 entire global economy. So whose fault is it?

Is it repparttar 119053 dot com executives fault?

Should we blame repparttar 119054 26-year-old college dropout who was funded to repparttar 119055 tune of $15 or $20 million to develop a cool new way for teens to communicate with each other over repparttar 119056 Net? We say, "Hey, how do you make any money off bringing a bunch a kids to chat rooms and games?" I say, how is a 26-year-old college dropout supposed to question repparttar 119057 business model of a company that has been funded to draw audience rather than to create profits? Remember repparttar 119058 eyeball rush? The dot com start-up kids were not given repparttar 119059 mandate to build profitable revenue streams. They were funded to build audience. They did.

Is it repparttar 119060 venture capitalist's fault?

So does that mean it was repparttar 119061 venture capitalists' fault for giving repparttar 119062 kid a very big pocket full of change without making sure repparttar 119063 business plan said something about profits before repparttar 119064 kid retires? The VC is easily repparttar 119065 most misunderstood character on repparttar 119066 dot com scene. One of repparttar 119067 interesting statistics coming from repparttar 119068 Internet crash is that VCs are hitting their batting averages. Most venture companies don't expect to bat much above 300. That means seven out of ten of their companies are expected to fail. The word venture means big, big risk. Most of repparttar 119069 experienced VCs met or beat their average during repparttar 119070 dot com craze.

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