A Quest for the Surviviors

Welcome to the New Year of 2009, but what can we expect from this New Year and new beginning?. We could sit back and continue to listen to the media sharks, hacking huge lumps of meat out of the credit crunch and turning it into a fatal Crisis. We could start counting our pennies, withdrawing our cash, and start to build air raid shelters to protect us from the falling financial blocks of the world. This is exactly what the media want to see, it gives them more news. When people become desperate, they do crazy things, crazy things make front page headlines for the largest newspapers of the world. Why shouldn't they fuel the worst financial disaster since the wall street crash of the late 1920's. Before long we should be reading about great depressions, and prohibition shouldn't we?
The future is what we determine it to be, suddenly everyone understands stocks and shares, they are all concerned by the price of oil, yet they have never bought a barrel, so why do we care?. We care about the price of petrol at the pump, we care about the price of food in the supermarket, we care for today, and we care for tomorrow, and if we have enough money to get us through the next two days, then we can deal with the next two thereafter.
We have all become financial extremists over the last 12mths, and we all have become wild gypsy's reading crystal balls.
The truth is, nobody knows what the recession will hold, but if you are ready for a challenge, then there is one right in front of you for 2009. We can all turn and look for easy options, but nothing has changed, we still need to work, whatever country we are in. We still seek finical freedom, and we still have bills to pay.
I suggest we stop worrying about what might happen, and we make a resolution to worry about whats happening right now, and deal with it.
Let's take the Spanish bull by the horns, and somersault it to the ground, then lets hold it there until it runs out of air.
If 2009 wants a fight then I am ready for it, and I'm taking no prisoners,
Recession, bring it on, I love a good challenge!

Online Savings for your Business

In the economic crisis we are all presently facing, the opportunities to save money in your business are very scarce.

Business Pages Tenerife are always looking for ways we can help small businesses avoid extra charges on the services they need.

We are now developing our IT Department further, to cope with the demand for our Network Services and Internet Solutions.

As the credit crunch takes a firm grip on the high street, we are seeing many companies pull back from owning locals and offices, viewing the web as a more favourable place to promote and do business. The overheads are lower, and you are able to communicate with a much larger audience.

Getting your website and marketing right, can offer high, attractive returns.

We provide a wide range of network solutions to suite any existing online business and provide impartial advice to businesses who want to create a website and an online business presence.

We offer an unrivalled web hosting solution for new and existing websites, providing both Microsoft Windows Web Servers to support ASP/.NET based web sites and Linux Web Servers through the highest quality, fastest data centres in the world.

Our Web Hosting & Monthly Support packages start from only 60 euros per month. We have a 9-5 help desk with live support technicians who can remotely connect to your workstations and fix any problems that may have occurred.

We can extend our live support service to deal with your PC problems remotely, our qualified technicians are capable of fixing problems on all major operating systems.

We also have a competent SEO/SMO team that can take care of your promotion and visibility on the web. Finding your site is vitally important if you want it to work for you, and bring you sales.

Our Web Server Administrators will transfer your existing website to our web servers free of charge, and install your systems promptly and securely, with email and web support.

Our Web Designers and Computer Programmers can also update, enhance or rebuild your website to today’s specifications enabling the most up to date browser compatibility.

We can assist your company in all areas of Information & Communication Technology to save you time and money, please contact us directly or call our helpdesk on 902 881 061.

To appear professional on the web, you need the support of a professional company!

Knowing Your Online Customer

If you have an online business, you may want to consider these recently collected figures, about your customers.

A poll recently released by the Consumer Reports National Research Center shows that 82% of consumers are concerned about their credit card numbers being stolen online, while 72% are concerned that their online behaviors were being tracked and profiled by companies.

Although 68% of consumers have provided personal information in order to access a website, 53% are uncomfortable with internet companies using their email content or browsing history to send relevant ads, and 54% are uncomfortable with third parties collecting information about their online behavior.

The poll revealed that 93% of Americans think internet companies should always ask for permission before using personal information, and 72% want the right to opt out when companies track their online behavior.

Joel Kelsey, policy analyst with Consumers Union, said "Americans are clearly concerned... the vast majority of consumers want more control over their personal information online... "

The poll shows that consumers are trying to take steps to limit the information that is being collected and shared about them online. For example:

* 35% use alternate email addresses to avoid providing real information
* 26% have used software that hides their identity
* 25% have provided fake information to access a website

Consumers are aware that information about their surfing habits is being collected online, but many are not aware of what companies are able to do with their information. Among the other findings of the poll:

* 61% are confident that what they do online is private and not shared without their permission
* 57% incorrectly believe that companies must identify themselves and indicate why they are collecting data and whether they intend to share it with other organizations
* 48% incorrectly believe their consent is required for companies to use the personal information they collect from online activities
* 43% incorrectly believe a court order is required to monitor activities online

Kelsey concludes that "Many consumers have misconceptions about the information available about them and how commonly it is sold by companies without their knowledge..."

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.