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Internet Business
This is the place to find information and tools you need to run a Web business.
If you're a suit, or just need to know a bit about the business side of things,
we have information about tools and software for business, marketing, advertising
and Web project management.
New Horizons for Domain Names
In November of 2000 the ICANN Board of Directors approved seven new Top Level Domains for use on the Internet. They are: .biz, .info, .aero, .pro, .name, .coop, and .museum. Soon you'll be able to register them for real.
Building a Simple Ecommerce Web Site
You don't need to spend $millions to build an ecommerce
Web site. There are viable do-it-yourself alternatives at hand. These are cost
effective and require little technical expertise.
Who
Controls the Internet?
If you've ever been asked this question, you'll know
it's a difficult one to answer. The obvious reply is "nobody". Problem
is - nobody believes you.
Dotcom
Bubble - "The Emperor Has No Clothes!"
Expect valuations in ecommerce companies and other
consumer business to go down even further. Somebody has noticed the Emperor is
nude and the stock market and venture capitalists are no longer prepared to pay
for his wardrobe.
Which Web Sites Are Making Money?
A year or so ago nobody worried too much about Web sites making money. But the atmosphere has changed. Stock markets have lost their unquestioning faith in the future profitability of dot coms. Which begs the question, which Web sites actually do make money?
Domain
Vacant
Many of the best domain names belong to speculators.
Problem is, most of these names are still standing idle, waiting for a sucker
with deep pockets to come along.
You
Paid How Much For That Domain Name?
The domain name Business.com was recently sold for
a staggering $8 million. If you've got a domain name to sell, or you'd like to
buy one, where on the Internet should you start looking, and how much will it
be worth?
Highly
Targeted Marketing on the Web
It used to be an amusing truism that "on the Internet nobody knows if you’re a
dog." Nowadays a webmaster can figure out if you’re a dog, what your favorite
brand of dog food is, and if you’ve ever been to obedience school.
Business and Technology
Web
Site Trends
We all know that Microsoft Internet Explorer is way
ahead of Netscape Navigator, but which Web servers are most popular, and what
design elements do top Web sites have in common?
The Script/Component
Model
Edward Tanguay looks at computer languages and the
amazing potential of the script/component model. Right now we've only scratched
the surface. Personalised Web services based on the script/component model will
be a big deal during the next decade.
MP3
Will Give Streaming a Bloody Nose
Big media companies hope that the free MP3 phenomenon
will toddle off into a quiet corner somewhere and die, so they can make money
out of streaming audio. No chance. Don't they know the Internet has changed the
rules?
Streaming's
Gonna Kick MP3 Butt
Everyone may think that MP3 downloads are the coolest thing since disco biscuits,
but save your money - don't buy one of those waaay over-priced Rio MP3 players.
MP3 will soon be dead anyway - replaced by streaming.
Think
Small, Think PDA
PDAs, Personal Digital Assistants - led by the Palm
Pilot - are hugely popular even without Net connections. Now they're getting wired,
expect them to become ubiquitous.
Online
Applications
A software application runs on a server, while the
client machine connects to the server over the Internet. This server-based computing
model, also called a hosted application, offers several advantages. ASPs are only
part of the picture.
A Billion
Internet-Enabled Mobile Phones
The WAP Forum predicts that as many as 525 million
WAP enabled handsets will be sold in the United States and Europe by the year
2003. Internet mobiles are the boom technology of tomorrow.
The
Web Meets TV - It's Tabloid Time
Television and the Web are two media on a collision
course. Surely we'll soon see them both on the same screen. Or maybe not. How
about the Web/TV combination follows its own separate path, becomes a new market,
quite different to what's gone before?
Internet Advertising
Commercial Overkill
Many sites are cramming more adverts on to their pages and heavily pushing their affiliate programs. The problem is that at some point the law of diminishing returns kicks in.
Banner
Advertising Statistics
In the rush-rush atmosphere of the Web, even otherwise
meticulous managers sometimes end up spending ad dollars blindly. Here's a guide
to measuring the effectiveness of online campaigns.
Banner
ads do not suck!
Since it began in 1994, Web banner advertising has
been steadily growing at an amazing rate. The popular press has made it sound
like the South Sea Bubble. Nonsense! Banner ads are a proven success story.
Sell
ads on my site?
The question isn't whether you can, it's whether
you should.
Getting Site User Feedback
There are a number of methods and techniques to improve your knowledge of what users think about your site. Some are easy and inexpensive and some can take a large investment in time and money. Here is a review of four methods: unsolicited user feedback, surveys, online usage profiling, and focus group sessions.
Traffic Analysis
Software
Bruce Morris explains how to analyze your Web site
traffic, and compares the different software packages available.
Analyzing
Log Files
Who's coming to your site? What are they doing there?
Where are they coming from? What are the best analysis programs? What features
do you need to look for?
A Good Web Development Team
Web sites are more than just an addition to the corporate presence. A site can make or break a company's image. This is why a good Web development team is crucial to your business.
Business Cases Versus Reality
E-business through a Web site needs to be approached as if it were another bricks-and-mortar outlet. It needs to be justified on a sound business case. Why then are business cases moving further from commercial reality?
Will
the DotCom Implosion Ease the Skills Shortage?
After more DotComs go belly up and those hundreds
of Internet companies rumoured to be circling the drain start to gurgle, a whole
bunch of only slightly tarnished development talent will come on the job market.
Will it be enough?
How
Corporates Poison their Own Web Efforts
Stiff corporate thinking has to change if big business
wants to cash in on the entrepreneurial genius that lurks within their organisations.
Otherwise their best people will leave to build competing, light-on-their-feet
dotcom businesses.
There
is No Skills Shortage
Sure it's tough hiring experienced Internet development
and business talent. You think you have trouble recruiting? Try recruiting people
to move to a place where the airport code is SUX.
Setting
up a Web Development Shop
So you want to go into business as a Web developer?
Here's a step-by-step guide to how to do it. The first step is to make an emergency
appointment with the mental health professional of your choice.
Today's
Junk Software
Web development software that simply does not work
well causes huge problems for start-ups.
What
Internet Skills Shortage?
There’s plenty of talent out there but most people
don’t know how to hire Internet developers.
Controlled
Chaos Is the Key
Establishing and managing a large commercial Web site
is similar to running a daily newspaper. Seeming chaos in such newsroom environments
is normal and perhaps even desirable. Actual chaos, on the other hand, demoralizes
the troops and costs money.
