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Funky Business and Internet Business
By acca | September 24, 2007
I have read Jonas Riderstrale i Kjel Nordstorm book, Funky Business in two days. And I couldn’t not to think about internet business while I was reading a book. Here’s a part of something you can learn about internet business from Funky Business book.
Products that didn’t exists
Innovate constantly. Offer new service. Add new product to your offer.
Key quality in funky business is forgetting
Forgetting is sometimes better than remembering. For instance, better forget some tricks you learned about SEO few years ago. Now, that trick can kill your website’s traffic. Or, HTML tables vs CSS. Forget tables, do CSS.
Funky business is free stage
The whole World is a stage. Everyone can be director or can take leading role in it. If you take episode role in funky village, you chose that. Look at people who started Youtube, Facebook, Digg, … Who were they just few years ago? Maybe just like you today. So, chose leading part in funky World now and be anything you wish.
Virtual immigrants
Instead of migrating people there are migration of ideas and thoughts now. You don’t need to migrate in USA to work for some US corporate, these days. Look at freelancers. They can seat in their home in Asia or Eastern Europe and work some design job for American or Britain firm or website. Internet is a miracle.
Use it and through it
It’s very possible than in will be better be reincarnating insect than turtle living hundred years, in near the future. Business with future is energize, not immortal. There are websites that have leading position before and now they don’t even exist. Google is still big because it’s innovating and full of energy. Not because it’s old or because last year it was big. They are constantly innovating, expanding, changing.
Technology and particular site visitor
Since you can see your visitor’s IP, you can tell where is he from. And there are services that can tell you weather in that particular town, what time is it, you can find out is there a war, is there some big important sports game, what language people speak there, … And programers can set your website fits all that. If there’s a football game in visitors town, your site can show spots ads. It there’s sunny weather, t-shirts ad can be shown.
Work while you don’t work
Work isn’t just on one place. You must work anywhere you are. In internet business, you can succeed if you think on your business only when you’re sitting by your computer. While you’re watch a game, in supermarket, in cinema, catch some idea. Write them in your cellphone, record on MP3 player, write them down. And when you come home, work on them. Do some action immediately.
What do you know the best?
Don’t make websites about something that doesn’t interest you. Don’t sell the products you are not familiar with. If you know a lot about basketball, write about that. If you’re really good in design, work like a freelance designer. If you’re a tourism expert, focus on that. Sell tickets to tourist destinations online. Find out what is your expertise field and use your knowledge in work online.
Topics: book, business, internet |
October 7th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Great points about forgetting what doesn’t work and sticking to what we are familiar with.