Since then the internet and social media has changed the approach of how we do things. It somehow has a great influence over our lives and how we communicate from day to day basis, whether on a personal or business level.
From time to time, we flipped through magazines that featured about Internet that stated these are the stories about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before as such a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter.
This means everyone around you matters. They are the ones who make things happen on the internet. They are the life givers to you and your ventures on the Internet/WWW. They are your readers, consumers, evangelists, followers and supporters.
The internet has opened up lots of opportunities for everyone. There have been many individuals who have accumulated great wealth from the internet including the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin; eBay's Pierre Omidyar who changed the way we buy and sell things online; social bookmarking site Digg.com, Kevin Rose, Facebook creator, Mark Zuckerberg; Techcrunch's founder Michael Arrington; Apple's Steve Jobs, Wikepedia's Jimmy Wales and many others.
To read more on 10 most influential people on web in 2010, click here.
Today the Internet has changed all the rules and it has opened new doors to the community and for amateurs to provide content as 'professionals'. There are people out there willing to pay you and learn what you already know. The key to success is to be entrepreneurial. We need to think BIG, dream BIG. You will need that drive to push you and thrive. You will need the passion and desire to succeed. Keep your focus and work on your dreams. There is no way that you can lose out if you have a working dream.
If you want to be rich, then you will need to solve problems. This is the key towards making money. When you solve a problem you make a profit. When you identify a problem you are creating solution and an opportunity and this is what entrepreneurs do. You will need to find the gap in the market and create your market in the gap. Entrepreneurs see the opportunity in the problem.
The Internet has the power to collaborate people and to help each other and prosper. The internet has opened the doors to help you reach a far greater audience. It is also a question of active participation in this new economy. It is clearly a shift of paradigm and something that you will have to deal with in the years ahead whether you like it or not. The opportunities are endless only IF you can see them coming your way.
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slave of the ordinary." - Cecil Beaton
