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Online business prospects in 2012

Online Business PROSPECTS in 2012Apa Online business prospects in 2012? These types of questions is my most favorite types of questions asked friends on BBM (2310BF87 add it …), Twitter, Facebook and also on the Website of GBO.

I’ve never discussed it once in the GBO website. You can read it back in on the following link: http://gurubisnisonline.com/produk-apa-yang-paling-cepat-laku-di-internet/

In addition there is one thing that should be remembered when we want to determine which Products our Online business is: look at the TREND ahead, Whether people want the product in the future or not?

So here, we asked as if it doesn’t matter, it’s a good product or not today, but we think in the future, people still want it what not?

There is a nice article on the Blog RoniYuzirman.com, which tells the story of the failure of KODAK until finally, after 133 years, Kodak declared itself bankrupt. You can visit the link above to get the full text.

That became our appeal, how could a successful International company exist for 133 years, and its products are almost there in all parts of the world. Could go bankrupt at the end of the story …

Many writers and expert business rate, one of the most important causes of this is the story of KODAK, Kodak was late in keeping track of photos and Print that had been shifted from the manual to digital.

And when the Kodak is aware, the world of digital photos and print have been dominated by companies such as HP, Canon, Nikon and Epson. Late conscious, and so was aware he’s already lagging far away.

This condition is experienced by many companies in the world, even local businesses around us. One of the much-talked about e.g. how Nokia changed the reason, while now it’s Samsung’s been crowned King by adopting Android phones.

Check out all around us, still is there any store selling Black Forest cake that while people have started gangland to TIRAMISU.

Remember the words of Bob Sadino? A good product is the product that the CONSUMER wants. Whatever that …

At this point, we are invited to metastatic how the behavior of society into our market. In addition to observe their consumption behavior, we can also make use of research to see how the Trend in the future.

That is where we will realize by itself, what Online Business prospects in 2012.

Success Factors Learning introduced the software, an application section of the Business Execution Suite (BizX) with complete tools for companies, ranging from recruitment, database, until the succession of leadership, particularly the hiring of employees from Millennia generation.

Milienia own generation is a term for those born after 1997, a time when the digitalization began to mushroom. In 2020 that will come will be a period for the generation of Millennia.

“This application allows companies to know their employees better,” said Andi Wibisono, President Director of Dimension Resources Indonesia, Success Factors partners in Indonesia, in a written statement on Friday (11/11/2011).

By providing operational business applications in accordance with what is commonly used by employees as the Millennia generation of working facilities, he added, companies can attract the candidates are good workers.

Andi claims companies that want to take advantage of these cloud-based applications do not need to invest large for the hardware and software. Cloud computing system which is applied it will connect all the human resource data into a single platform.

“As long as the users of the company was able to access Google or Face book, confirmed he already has sufficient infrastructure to access the Success Factors application. Does not take much bandwidth is needed,” he said.

The move was in line with anticipated technology research firm  research institute, where 67% of Internet users aged 18 to 33 years utilizing social networking in 2008. In 2010, the figure rose to 83%. It is estimated that at the same time, e-mail users is decreasing.

The use of email among ages 12 to 17 years dropped to 59% in December 2010 compared with same period a year earlier. Among users aged 18-24 and 25-34, the decline also occurred, each 1% and 18%.

“These figures indicate there has been a change in habits of young people in using technology and they will bring these habits as they enter the working world,” said Karie Willyerd, VP Chief Learning Officer SuccesFactors.

Willyerd mention the future workforce is also called the Millennia generation, born on the 1997 requires a different approach from the company.

“They are very close to the use of social media like Twitter and Facebook, including information related to their work

Great photo competition was opened by the internet giant Google. The competition, dubbed ‘Google Photography Prize’ targeting the following students who wrestle the world of photography with a tempting prize.

Students aged 18 years and over is one of the requirements to follow Google’s photo contest. They, both amateur and professional disilakan to send photos via Google +.

Yes, this race is indeed powered by Google +. Presumably, Google is doing to boost the popularity of networking sites they were in the middle of the growing prestige become slow. This competition was also to respond to the ‘activist’ image that maximizes the existence of internet sites to display his work.

Reportedly, the first 100 days of the birth of Google +, a total of more than 3.5 billion photos have been uploaded there. By comparison, Facebook reported that users have uploaded as much as 250 million photos per day or 25 billion photos per 100 days.

Google Photography Prize itself is now already underway and photo collection time is limited to January 31, 2012. There are 10 categories to choose from namely:

* Me

* Food

* Travel

* Fashion

* Action

* Street

* Sport

* Night

* Sound / Silence

* Point of View

Google offers a very tempting prize for the winner. Quoted from DPreview, Sunday (13/11/2011), Google has prepared more than 100 phones Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

Then 10 finalists have been selected by a professional jury and curator of the Saatchi gallery will have the opportunity to display shot on the Saatchi Gallery for 2 months. As information, this gallery is a leading gallery, founded in 1985 in London.

Not only that, for the ultimate winner, he will be given a ‘photographic journey’ to places a charming selection of the winner himself, accompanied by professional photographers.

To enter the competition is great, the registrant lived upload a maximum of 8 pictures on Google + networking sites and give the title of his album ‘Google Photography Prize’.

While officials hailed Google Google +, Mark Zuckerberg look at social networks such as Facebook’s mini version of Google.

That’s what Zuckerberg conveyed in an interview with Charlie Rose of PBS TV show. When Rose asked him, whether Facebook will be competing in the platform war with Google, Apple and Amazon in the next 10 years, Zuckerberg said Facebook to see Apple and Amazon more as partners, while Google’s recognition as a rival.

“People love to talk about the war. There are many ways to make the companies work together. There is real competition there, but I do not think it will be kind of a situation where there are companies that win in all areas,” he said as reported by PC World and quoted on Tuesday (11/08/2011).

“Google is in some ways more competitive and of course trying to build up a mini version of them,” he explained. He added that when looking at Amazon and Apple, he saw a company that is very in tune with Facebook.

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg who also participated in this interview session said their companies have a strategy of partnerships that range in the realm of the provision of social technology for media companies or other technologies.

“We focus on doing one thing very well. Many other companies are doing a lot of different things. While we, as our growth, just do one thing,” said Sandberg.

Internet giant Google itself began to seriously immersed herself in the realm of social networking this year. Google + which was released in June, an initiative designed to strengthen Google’s position in the social networking market. Through social networking, Google also provides a variety of devices that unify all its products.

unlike the traditional way as in traditional markets or shops where we still limit the number of buyers because of the limitations of location, in the Internet world our market covers the whole world. Final statistics are presented from the world’s 6.9 billion population, 2 milyarnya (as of March 2011) has been using the Internet and this number will continue to grow each year. So you can imagine how big the actual market potential in this internet world.

The problem then how can we find markets for our products on the internet as capital to earn money online? The simplest tips in selling on the internet is a smart-looking pandailah friends as much as possible and keep the friendship, if friendship you’ve awakened and arise confidence berbisnispun will undoubtedly be easier to do. So many-many are expanding your network on the website, forum, or the easiest is from your own social network because it is the main capital in a business on the internet