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The Internet actually started in 1969 as the ARPANET, a Defense
Department system designed to let survivors share files after a nuclear
attack. From a handful of top secret computers, it’s grown to fill more
than 10 million hosts and millions of domain names.
And it’s still growing. According to a recent survey, the volume of
Internet traffic is expected to double annually over the next five years.
Consumers are expected to account for 60 percent of all Internet traffic
over that period with the rest of the market made up of business users.
No other business tool can put the products you sell to so many people so
easily. Nothing even comes close.
Imagine you know how to build a bookcase from scratch. Maybe one person
in a thousand will want to know how to build the kind of bookcase you
know how to build. If you’re not a well-known carpenter, no publishing
company is going to touch you. It’s just not worth the marketing. On the
Web, one person in a thousand gives you a potential market of 340,000
customers. If you write a book and sell it on the Web for just $10 per
copy you could make as much as $3,400,000. All you have to do is tell
people what you know—and tell them it’s out there. And that costs next to
nothing. You can have the
greatest products in the world sold on the most beautifully designed site
on the Web, but if no-one knows where it is, you’re just going to be
wasting the twenty bucks or so you’re spending each year on the host. So
if you have your own product Best of Luck.
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