Wednesday, 4 June 2008

Business Pages Tenerife Talks Web

As I have lived and worked in Tenerife over the past five years, I have seen and felt the naivety people have regarding the Internet. Not only the understanding of it, but what and how they can benefit from it. There are also companies who have prayed on this, and bled people dry, fuelled on the lack of knowledge people have, in this field.
Firstly, the companies involved in this should be ashamed, the business world is about helping fellow business men and women succeed. And if your products and services in Tenerife can help, then you consult and sell them. Not rob people of every decent penny they have earned, selling them products that are poorly managed, not needed, and over priced. The internet and what you can do with it can be a very daunting subject for most. But a good consultation will outlay this, and help clients to understand what will work for them, and most importantly why.
Business Pages Tenerife, was firstly introduced to Tenerife via the web and has an amazing attitude and understanding of this subject. The power of the internet is outstanding, and as it grows so will the companies who see this. Television will become a thing of the past, the worlds most powerful media product will be swallowed up by the world wide web. Information is now at the fingertips when ever we want it, and it is not interrupted via breaks, and commercials. TV through the internet is now on great demand, opening the channels for 100's if not 1000's of free TV stations, forcing the internet into everyone’s home. Not just into the home, but into the front room, and becoming everyone’s first choice of media. We can listen to music on it, download games, watch TV, make telephone calls for free, view films, record and store programmes the list is endless. How anyone can say “I don't think it works" is a fool, and needs to realize this is the worlds biggest media tool, and is here to stay.
Everybody needs to wake up to it, you need accounts to shop, passwords to bank, social networking sites to meet new friends, online manuals to DIY your home, we don't need books, instructions, shops or stores it will all be on our TV screen in the centre of our home.
Understanding this, and consulting with a decent company, can push your business in the direction of the future. Or you can choose to get left behind, and your business will be swallowed up and digested.
One last comment on this subject, choosing your direction can carefully and consulting with the right people will save you time and money. You can use two bit companies to build websites, but who will be there to fix it; the young lad down the street is great until he's not down the street anymore. If you seriously plan to do this, be serious, don't be fooled, or you will pay over and over again.

1 comment:

Crabbit said...

Good article, having being here a while it is clear that a majority of businesses in Tenerife do not see that value in having a good website. I wholly agree with what you have written.

Not having a website is one thing, but having a bad website is criminal. I do not think some people realize that a website is your shop front in Tenerife to the world. A poor or cheap website gives such a terrible first impression of your business. Anyone company or person advertising websites for 250-500 euros is just not worth spending, you need to spend more or save up until you have at least double or more depending your business.

If any business in Tenerife is considering getting a website or reviewing their current website, just do some research on www.google.com or any search engine on how powerful the internet is, and the rate at which it influence is growing.

As you have said, the internet is here to stay