The Internet Promotes Worldwide Business Growth :: Computers

The Internet Promotes Worldwide Business Growth Today, businesses grow like crazy. Businesses are constantly competing to overcome each others prices and to carry the best product. One major factor in business publicity is to target customers. Stores and companies have customers who live in the general knowledge base and visitors who might also like to purchase their products. In order for the company to maximize their income, they must present an easily accessible product line. The Internet is an economical way to reach out to new customers who are not in the stores proximity. The Internet is the only place where people all over the world ordure communicate while looking at the object that they are discussing, comparing prices and checking ratings on items. The article entitled Internet Takes Ancient Craft Global, write by R Daniel Foster, is an article about the Internets ability to accelerate business progress. Mr. Frimpong, a royal African wood carver from the city of Ghana in westward Africa, sells his ancient woodcarvings on the Internet because of the products international demand. He uses the Internet to expand his business to the people who are interested in buying his products that shows a gamey degree of craftsmanship. Mr. Frimpong exemplifies Ghanas need to be connected to the Internet. On the continent of Africa, 54 countries have Internet servers a number that has significantly increased over the departed eleven years.Only 500,000 African people have access to the Internet and there are just 100,000 telephones shared between 19 million people. In order to get online, the people have to first borrow a computer, and then find an available line to which they can link the modem (Foster 8). Even now, numerous people in Africa lack access to the Internet. The Internet is a necessity that no one should be without. Frimpong realizes that his customers are mainly US citizens, and he opinionated to put his business online after a customer mentioned the idea. Frimpong recalls the day a women entered his Kumasi shop, bought three masks, and mentioned the possibility of selling through the Internet. (Foster 7) Frimpong sells his merchandise through Novica.com. The Internet is the sterling(prenominal) asset to his company because it has tripled his income, and now he has the ability to carry a staff of fifteen employees to help satisfy the demand for the carvings. The Heart of the Well written by Rheingold is similar to the article about Frimpongs business taking off because they both used it as an informational source.