The biggest problem with the internet today?
The people who need it don’t have it, and most people who have it don’t know what it can do.
So perhaps a blog isn’t the best way to communicate with the mostly newbie market. Our clients and prospectives, for the most part, don’t read blogs. So why write one?
Because they will soon. The market for online services isn’t just growing, it’s growing UP. And it pays to be first.
18-year-old kids who learned HTML from MySpace, or 23-year-olds who can type 60 words a minute from instant messaging for 4 hours a day during their teen years will become the 40-year-old entrepreneurs you know today.
Many people don’t think of it like this, something I’m guilty of. They think of their market as it exists now, and consequently have a really hard time seeing their individual clients turning themselves into tech-heads.
They probably never will change, but their replacements will be very different. And they’ll expect you to be connected to the internet, and have a website that communicates what you do effectively.
Do you have one?
Nice post! I agree! My niece spends at least 5 hours a day on the computer, this only leads me to believe that all of her friends are doing the same thing. We have to keep up with the youth markets even if they aren’t our target markets today. If we don’t, we are not only missing out on the customers of tomorrow, but we’re not taking notice to who we will end up competing with in a few years.