¶ … Internet Has Changed Business
To change is to make different. The Internet has definitely changed the way business is done. Business is no longer a 9 to 5 operation. Blue laws have been virtually erased from the books. Holidays are now optional. Like all change, some aspects of change are better; some aspects are worse. Where will the Internet ultimately lead businesses and society in general? To a whole new world!
Commercial businesses have had new doors open up for them. Small shops, including "mom and pop" shops, are now able to compete with larger companies. To sell tangible goods, one must have a place from which to vend. Before, everyone needed a storefront. With a storefront came electric bills, phone bills, heat bills, trash bills, water bills plus the rent or mortgage! In addition to those expenses, there was also stock, employees and advertising. The Internet has also opened up the floodgates -- forget doors -- for thousands of people to have a side business out of their basement or garage. Various magazines for women tell stories of women who make a comfortable living selling things on eBay. Ebay even allows people and small businesses to advertise their link off the auction site.
Forty percent of small businesses have their own Web sites, up from just over a quarter last year, and that 70% now have Internet access, up from 57% last year, according to the 19th annual Dun & Bradstreet Small-Business Survey, which was conducted in early 2000.
The D&B survey also shows that small businesses owned by women were more likely to have Internet access than their male-owned counterparts (67% vs. 63%). Another interesting item the survey found was that minority-owned businesses also use the Web to conduct business research more often than do other businesses (64% vs. 54%).
These statistics at first glance indicate that corporate America still remains the old white boys club. Women and minorities function better online because they get shut out on the street. Online selling is not quite as personal.
Corporate business used to have to wait for the U.S. Postal Service or a courier to deliver documents from one location to another. Today, we simply email the document back and forth!
Not only does this save time...
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