Home Business Tips - Is Your Business in Danger?
Pretty ominous title, I know.
But the truth is, your home business may very well be in danger.
There are so many things that could go wrong at any given time that you'd need a mystic to be able to predict them all.
This article is inspired from a piece of news that was brought to my attention from one of the members of a forum that I attend.
His name is Ian Jackson and I want to thank him for posting this very interesting bit of news.
Essentially, what's going on, and the gist of the article in a nutshell, is that the Internet has gotten so clogged with users that it is being predicted that eventually, it will slow down to such a crawl that it will become almost useless for conducting any kind of real business.
Now, I've heard my share of gloom and doom and in my life and usually take things with a grain of salt, especially when dire predictions are made, but in this case, maybe it's something to consider.
After all, as much as we'd like to think it's so, the Internet is not a limitless resource.
There is only so much bandwidth to go around.
And if the article is accurate, YouTube alone takes up more of that bandwidth in a month than all the Internet did in the year 2000.
That's a scary thought if it's true.
Okay, but how does this affect YOUR business? Well, if connections slow down and if PCs slow down, people trying to connect to your site to purchase your product or service, if they find the wait too long, or if they can't get to the site at all, this translates into a lost sale...
plain and simple.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out.
I know what you're thinking right now.
"Okay Steve, so what? What can I do about it?" Well, maybe nothing.
However, by making sure that your sites are optimized and load quickly under normal conditions, this will greatly reduce the chance that you'll lose sales because people can't load it.
One way to do this is to stay away from bandwidth hogging videos, especially if they serve no real purpose.
If you're going to have a Flash presentation intro, at least give the visitor the option to skip it.
I don't know what the future holds.
I do know that none of my sites are server drains as we speak, so I am not too concerned about it.
However, if the Internet ever DOES become a useless "toy" as the article states, I can always go back to working for a living.
Hopefully, by that time, I'll be long dead and buried.
To YOUR Success, Steven Wagenheim
But the truth is, your home business may very well be in danger.
There are so many things that could go wrong at any given time that you'd need a mystic to be able to predict them all.
This article is inspired from a piece of news that was brought to my attention from one of the members of a forum that I attend.
His name is Ian Jackson and I want to thank him for posting this very interesting bit of news.
Essentially, what's going on, and the gist of the article in a nutshell, is that the Internet has gotten so clogged with users that it is being predicted that eventually, it will slow down to such a crawl that it will become almost useless for conducting any kind of real business.
Now, I've heard my share of gloom and doom and in my life and usually take things with a grain of salt, especially when dire predictions are made, but in this case, maybe it's something to consider.
After all, as much as we'd like to think it's so, the Internet is not a limitless resource.
There is only so much bandwidth to go around.
And if the article is accurate, YouTube alone takes up more of that bandwidth in a month than all the Internet did in the year 2000.
That's a scary thought if it's true.
Okay, but how does this affect YOUR business? Well, if connections slow down and if PCs slow down, people trying to connect to your site to purchase your product or service, if they find the wait too long, or if they can't get to the site at all, this translates into a lost sale...
plain and simple.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out.
I know what you're thinking right now.
"Okay Steve, so what? What can I do about it?" Well, maybe nothing.
However, by making sure that your sites are optimized and load quickly under normal conditions, this will greatly reduce the chance that you'll lose sales because people can't load it.
One way to do this is to stay away from bandwidth hogging videos, especially if they serve no real purpose.
If you're going to have a Flash presentation intro, at least give the visitor the option to skip it.
I don't know what the future holds.
I do know that none of my sites are server drains as we speak, so I am not too concerned about it.
However, if the Internet ever DOES become a useless "toy" as the article states, I can always go back to working for a living.
Hopefully, by that time, I'll be long dead and buried.
To YOUR Success, Steven Wagenheim
