Online business development - The Times- Topic: BuildingWebsiteNews

So why has the internet not really taken off in South Africa with its modern infrastructure and internet gateways? With the higher cost of internet usage your local customer base is also eroded as it affects how many people will be able to view your services or products. It a vicious cycle when you consider that by having higher telecom costs for the local user it creates lower penetration in the local market and in turn pushes up the amount of international bandwidth we do use as we source our information globally instead of locally. The IT personal used to create; market and maintain the websites and affiliated services such as system engineers and the likes are shrunk as the demand is low for internet services. Over the next few weeks and months I will show you how to start, or where you might be able to improve your online business be it a website selling socks or a website created solely for creating advertising revenue from your user base. read more

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