Are you
becoming Internet savvy? (Savvy: Well informed and perceptive, practical
understanding or shrewdness.)
We may have
to do some things we’ve never done before. We are becoming a more and more
Internet accessing people. Read Jane Frazier’s Is Your
Website Up to Snuff? I am a good
example of what Jane is talking about.
I just went
to the AT&T store and bought an iPhone. It is an amazing piece of
equipment. At the slight touch of my finger in the palm of my hand, is access
to my emails, my contact list of friends and clients, pictures of my kids,
calculator, Yahoo, Google, any newspaper in the world, any movie I want to
watch, a camera that takes great pictures, any songs I want to hear, a GPS
System, I have access to my home computer and my laptop, my calendar and
appointment book are in sync right there, and I can even make phone calls on
the darn thing.
I am going online today to
purchase Microsoft Office Professional so I can sync up my emails and calendar
with my laptop and iPhone. I’m a guy who just 8 years ago couldn’t type a
letter, use Microsoft Word, or even do a simple email. (I had quit
school in the 9th grade to go to Nashville and become a big country
music star. I got my GED in 1990.) I didn’t even know what email or the Internet was. Today my
company builds websites and do we email newsletters. It’s just amazing what a person can do if they are willing to change.
Now in
2008, who knew, besides Jesus, that the stock market would crash and gas would
be over $5 a gallon? Even when gas was so high this summer, the Internet was
booming.
The Census
Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced on Nov 19th 2008 that
the estimate of
U.S. retail e-commerce sales for July, August, and Sept of 2008, was $34.4
billion
The third
quarter 2008 e-commerce estimate increased 5.7 percent (±1.5%) from the third
quarter of 2007
The third
quarter 2007 e commerce estimate increased 19.3 percent (±2.6%) from the third
quarter of 2006
This may be
a down time in the economy, the stock market maybe on a Six Flags roller
coaster ride, and the auto makers, car sales people and dealers may be in
trouble, but the use of the Internet is anything but down. I ran into a woman
last week and she told me she lost her job a year ago, because her company got
bought out. I asked her what she was
doing now. She said, “Ebay”. I said, “How is it going?” She said she was making
just as much and sometimes more, as she was before. As the media stokes the
fires of fear, in the mind of the folks in our country, the self-sufficient,
pioneering, hard-working, can do attitudes of some people will move them
ahead and they will do very well; even if they have to do something they have
never done before.
Are you
willing to do something you have never done before? Many business owners today
need to go back and re-read the little book from a few years ago that sold 21
million copies, Who Moved My Cheese? By Spencer Johnson. Read
about it.
Perhaps now
would be a good time to have a complimentary meeting with
a Wizard of Ads Partner. Links to their websites and blogs are listed down the
right side of The
Wizard Times. Hundreds of their articles with free insightful advice
can been seen at www.americansmallbusiness.com 2009 would be a great year to attend a class
at the Wizard Academy
21st Century Business School in Austin Texas. What is the Wizard Academy?
