Internet Is a Great Equalizer: Small Businesses Can Directly Compete with Huge Corporations
I recently saw the news and received another very grave report of the state of the economy. The Sep job number (9.8%) had just been delivered, which translates into more than fifteen million folks now out of work.
Not just that, but the reporter also revealed that the US had just lost its offer for the 2016 Olympics (and the countless greenbacks that would be invested in new construction and renovations for the varied Olympic platforms and rooms for the many millions of travellers, i.e., job roles for American citizens).
Consequently, rather than monitoring the Olympic Games from Chicago, we will have to observe them from Rio de Janeiro.
I also heard Rep. Alan Grayson point out statistical data from a Harvard study finding that 44,789 US people die each year because they lack proper medical care – and that translates into 122 North Americans dying each single day because they lack medical benefits.
So what is the average Yank to do? Particularly those 15,000,000 unemployed Americans?
I advocate that instead of simply lounging around bewailing the situation, or increasingly becoming annoyed as they keep at their fruitless job searches, many of these folk should create their own Internet enterprises.
When I invest in the stock market, one of the criteria I look for are firms that have ‘big moats’ i.e., they have such a robust lead on their industry or market (through exclusive technology or other competitive advantage) that it is highly troublesome for others to enter into that market and compete with them.
The Net isn’t like that – it has nearly no ‘moat,’ meaning there aren’t many obstacles to entry.
Almost any one with a computer and access to the web can initiate an online business as the Internet offers a level playing field (i.e, even the smallest company can challenge the largest firms ). This is true regardless of whether you’re a Gen Y person just out of school (or never even attended college) to the Boomers and Seniors who are either pondering retirement, or already retired.
‘Acquired knowledge’ appears to be about the single true moat that exists with respect to beginning an online organization. The great thing about having a moat that is comprised essentially of knowledge – is that any one can easily cross that moat – just by being inspired enough to obtain the tools of the field.
Affiliate marketing programmes are probably the best ways to start an online organization, and most of them also offer training per the product that you’ll be selling for them.
The problem with most online opportunities is that their training is limited, and typically targeted only on instructing you about their product (s). Unfortunately, you will need more information than that.
One n excellent starting point for gaining all the rest of the understanding about internet marketing that you will need is to join the Online Success for Beginners program.
