Web 2.0: The Fastest Way To Move Your Business Ahead Of Your Competitors
Web 2.0 is the fastest way to move your business ahead of your competitors today if only you know how it works and how to integrate it into your business. We are living in an era where old ways of doing things are being replaced with new ways of doing things. What you know today that works may not work tomorrow. When a viable new project or system is presented to you, be the first to jump in or you will be overtaken by another. Avoid The Rush Hour!
The strongest and most powerful Nation in the world can no longer be decided by Military might or numbers but by how fast you can program the ‘chips’. By writing few programming codes or pressing few buttons you can move the world faster than the “speed of Light”.
This is a world that belongs to the “electronic big boys” who uses the leverage of the internet or Web 2.0 to improve their financial world. Alhaji Aliko Dangote of Dangote Group of Companies is said to be the 51st richest man in the world. Do you know how much Dangote have invested into his business for years to come to the level he is today? At least he took large loans from the banks to help bring his business to a multinational level. He must have toil a lot with sleepless nights to make such fame. Also he must have romanced with the political hierarchies of his country- with a lot of give and take before he can be so fabulously rich. Now read carefully because I am trying to take you somewhere. Mark Zuckerberg the owner of Facebook is rated the 52nd richest man in the world. His company is a Web based company. And you and I know that Facebook is new compares to when Dangote started, yet he is the 52nd richest man in the world. How can that be? How many direct staff do you think he has? But he is the 52nd richest man in the world while Dangote with all his big trucks, man powers, bank loans, business conglomerates, monopoly, romance with top governmental officials is only one step ahead of Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. Dangote is using the principle of E=MC2 while Mark Zuckerberg is using Web 2.0 or the power of Programming “codes”. Not far fetch, Mark Zuckerberg will overtake Alhaji Dangote because he is using the new way of doing business- Web 2.0.
You still have the time to join the “electronic big boys” like Mark Zuckerberg, Jerry Yang of Yahoo!, Larry Page (Google CEO/Co-founder), Sergey Brin (Google co-founder) or you can choose the old snail way of doing business. Web 2.0 companies use the web as a platform to create collaborative, community-based sites (e.g., social networking sites, blogs, wikis, etc). Web 2.0 is a term coined by Dale Dougherty to explain the rapid noticeable shift from the old ways people and business trades for money to a new way of using the web and developing web-based applications which are made possible by writing few ‘codes’ and integrating it into their business. Now the internet is a world of its own. You can take your business online and if done properly, see yourself becoming one of the richest men in the world or at least in your locality. You still have the time so Avoid the Rush Hour……..
Learn how to use the internet or Web 2.0 to improve your financial status. Bill Gates was formally “a nobody” until he applied the knowledge of using “codes”, software, desktop applications, mobile applications and web based applications which catapulted him to remain the longest reigning richest man in the world- at least he is still one of the richest men in the world today. Before people started rushing in, Bill Gates alongside Paul Allen in trying to avoid the rush hour gave birth to Microsoft. You too can avoid the rush hour- give birth to some Web based application now! Always remember this absolute truth that “what you know today can be obsolete tomorrow”. So, always update your knowledge bank else you will be outdated.
Don’t allow your next door neighbour to overtake you. Start buying books, ebooks, videos, etc, that will teach or show you how to use the internet or web 2.0 to improve your business. Take your business online. Put it on the internet. Setup a blog, forum or social networking site for your business. Remember the concept of web 2.0 involves the users, customers, site visitors- not only is the web content often created by the users, customers, but users or customers help organize it, share it, remix it, critique it, update it. Web 2.0 is a conversation with everyone having the opportunity to speak and share views. When you bring people into your business through the internet, they tend to like your business. This will result to more money for you. Try this now! Build your business website with WordPress blog (select good theme, add many plugins) which allow people to make contributions. They will fall in love with your business. This will mean money, money, money. This is another method of using Web 2.0 to make money. If your business is selling books, ebooks, software, videos, even computers, use WordPress to setup your Shop. So that your customers can comment on any product, share their views. Beside Search Engines favors blogs more than conventional website. This is a simple way of using Web 2.0 to make money and this strategy is still fresh. In deed Web 2.0 is the fastest way to move your business ahead of your competitors.
