Is there a future for me in ecommerce?
The questions that are uppermost in most e-businesses’ minds are usually these –is this business here to stay? For how long are people going to shop on the Net? What are the growth prospects for this medium? Is it going to be here for a lot more time or is it going to go the dotcom way? What will happen to my business if ecommerce stops?
Scope only for hope, not despair
To assuage all these issues, let us first start by first of all congratulating ecommerce businesses for having taken the decision to start this mode of business. You have after all taken up a business in which you can reach out to anyone on this planet. What a physical store would never ever be able to do in terms of reach is at the core of ecommerce. An ecommerce business is a business without boundaries. It is a business in which you can sell to a person at the other end of the globe in no time.
Born from the Net
E-business is smart business. It is a way of leveraging technology in ways that were impossible to comprehend a few years ago. Ecommerce arose because of the spread and expanse of the Net. So, logically speaking, it should last as long as people use the Net. If anything, the Net can only grow. It still has vast tracts of the world that are untouched by its influence. The influence of the Net can only pervade those parts of the world in the future. If it cannot, it can still remain where it is –in parts of the world in which it is already there. And this can be the worst case scenario.
No way for it to go out
For the world to stop using the Net at any time in the future, the human brain that gave us the Net should eschew the faculty of using the computer altogether. It is only then that the Net, and with it, online shopping, goes out of use!When is the Net going to become obsolete? In this wired world, is it ever possible to figure a scenario in which we will return to the pre-Internet days?
Problems? Maybe, but end? No
Agreed, an ecommerce has unique issues and challenges. This is something no industry is exempt from. If there are problems, there are solutions, too. As the old adage goes, there is no problem without a solution; if there is no solution, it is not a problem. This is in no way to suggest that it is of such a nature that people will stop shopping on the Net. In sum, ecommerce is here to stay. We have already talked about the situation in which it could become out-dated or out of use!
The questions that are uppermost in most e-businesses’ minds are usually these –is this business here to stay? For how long are people going to shop on the Net? What are the growth prospects for this medium? Is it going to be here for a lot more time or is it going to go the dotcom way? What will happen to my business if ecommerce stops?
Scope only for hope, not despair
To assuage all these issues, let us first start by first of all congratulating ecommerce businesses for having taken the decision to start this mode of business. You have after all taken up a business in which you can reach out to anyone on this planet. What a physical store would never ever be able to do in terms of reach is at the core of ecommerce. An ecommerce business is a business without boundaries. It is a business in which you can sell to a person at the other end of the globe in no time.
Born from the Net
E-business is smart business. It is a way of leveraging technology in ways that were impossible to comprehend a few years ago. Ecommerce arose because of the spread and expanse of the Net. So, logically speaking, it should last as long as people use the Net. If anything, the Net can only grow. It still has vast tracts of the world that are untouched by its influence. The influence of the Net can only pervade those parts of the world in the future. If it cannot, it can still remain where it is –in parts of the world in which it is already there. And this can be the worst case scenario.
No way for it to go out
For the world to stop using the Net at any time in the future, the human brain that gave us the Net should eschew the faculty of using the computer altogether. It is only then that the Net, and with it, online shopping, goes out of use!When is the Net going to become obsolete? In this wired world, is it ever possible to figure a scenario in which we will return to the pre-Internet days?
Problems? Maybe, but end? No
Agreed, an ecommerce has unique issues and challenges. This is something no industry is exempt from. If there are problems, there are solutions, too. As the old adage goes, there is no problem without a solution; if there is no solution, it is not a problem. This is in no way to suggest that it is of such a nature that people will stop shopping on the Net. In sum, ecommerce is here to stay. We have already talked about the situation in which it could become out-dated or out of use!
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