Most businesses have a website online already, but there are quite a few small businesses and even some medium sized businesses that don’t. With the year 2010 around the corner, I’m going to take a gamble and predict a few things.
- I predict more Internet integration with everyday items. I predict more and more Internet phones, especially with Google’s Nexus One phone which will break the consumer away from having to have contracts with cell phone giants for voice. I’m rant more on this later.
- I predict more appliances that are user friendly and connected wirelessly to the Internet.
- I predict Internet connected billboards.
- I predict Internet and GPS to be more integrated.
How does this all tie together? What does this mean for your business? It means more potential customers. It means more opportunity. With everything Internet enabled, a customer can be made aware of your name and the products and services you offer.
Google Voice debuted not that long ago, early 2009. The abilities were pretty cool. You get free phone calls that can travel through VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and have the ability to record your calls and have Google transcribe them. Once a call is transcribed, keywords can be picked out, and advertising is then associated and shown through Google’s other programs.
Appliances that are user friendly already exist. Fridges that can scan and create a list of the contents and their expiration dates, or when the start to fail to call notify you and a service company. A new item, probably not heard about much yet, is the Microwave that can play YouTube videos. Most items put into a microwave are set between 1-10 minutes. Most videos on YouTube last 2-8 minutes.
Digital billboards are out there on the road, it’s a matter of time before they all get replaced with video, connected to the Internet, with advertising changed on the fly. Global market businesses can centralize management and overhead, relocating products to other stores and advertise to local markets.
As GPS gets more integrated with Internet, location aware phones and GPS devices will be able to place ads based on where you frequently travel, be it down the street, or across the world.
So what’s our point? The point is, this is a huge potential market that needs to lead to information, centrally contained, with your business name on it. It starts with a website. Webhosting is not only very affordable, but the right hosting package can give your business unlimited space, unlimited domain names, databases, email addresses, the works! Tie that in with free services, such as Twitter, Facebook, Plaxo, Picasa, Youtube, Yelp, Google local business center, Google Apps (docs, spreadsheets, presentations and forms), and LinkedIn, you have a complete online solution. Anybody can enlist these services and anyone can purchase hosting. We can tie it all together for you. We can even connect your business to the Internet, and backup all your data into the cloud.
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