internet for business
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A lot of Pakistani businesses are missing the opportunities that the Net represent. This presentation aims at providing the incentive for businesses - and individuals - to get online in a more serious mannerTRANSCRIPT
Why use the Internet for business?
By Mohammad M Khan
Momekh & Co
http://blog.momekh.com/
Why use the Internet for business?
People do not realize how beneficial the Internet can be – for business
Why use the Internet for business?
The problem at hand
“We are in Pakistan –we do not need a website”
The problem at hand
“We do not know if the Internet can help our
business”OR
The problem at hand
The problem at hand
“We do not know what the Internet has become”
The problem at hand
Mashups
AJAX
Social networks
Blogging
The problem at hand
“How can the Net help the business earn more?”
The problem at hand
The problem at hand
?
The problem at hand
?
The problem at hand
“How can you connect to your customers when you
do not know how your customers like to
connect?”
The problem at hand
The problem at hand
“Why should I use the Net for my business?”
What’s with the Internet?
Fits perfectly!
The Internet is to the world what glove is to a hand
Obama ruled on social sites!
Even politicians have used the web to get great results
Whitehouse has a blog!
And now governments have followed this ‘new’ route…
Why we ought to be online
The Internet in Pakistan
Is this your customer/audience?
Average Pakistani Net User
And we are at a ‘growth’ stage!
Millionof us are online
Reach customers at will!
Laser-like marketing
Are you on Facebook?
For Example:
Facebook users
Everyone’s using Facebook! Are you?
Facebook is used not only to connect
with old, long-lost friends
But also to market your business to a wider, more aware audience
Everyone’s using Facebook! Are you?
What Pakistanis are doing online?
FacebookChatCheck EmailChat moreCheck EmailChatUpdate Facebook StatusChat some moreCheck Email again
Is this all there is to it?
Is this the only agenda?
Thought provoking
Winner of Best South Asian Blog on Politics!
Pocket money?
A student from Islamabad, earning more than USD 4,000 per month –since 2007!
So what are you doing?
Approach the Net
Productivity through the Net
to either increase value of work
or to decrease time taken to do the work
Productivity through the Net
Productivity= value/time
The infrastructure is there!
Outsource
Internet is working for others
People are working one day a week to find time to travel, spend money & time with
their family & friends
Internet is working for others
Tim Ferris works for four hours in a week to earn more than USD 40,000 a week –ALL thanks to proper, simple use of the Internet
People are writing books about it!
He should know, he wrote a best-selling book about it…
Ask yourself
Ask yourself
Getting things done
Self-diagnosis?You do have a website (for your business at least)?
Your website is not like a brochure, but more like a magazine!
Your email is [email protected] and not [email protected] or [email protected] etc
Can you send and receive email from your phone?
Final words
It is never too late to change
Or
To improve
Any Questions?
“Make everything as simple as possible – but not simpler”
- Einstein