So many books you read about business (e.g. Nick Rampley-Sturgeon’s “Small Business, Big Profit”), seem to view small one-man or one-woman businesses as no more than a glorified job.As I’m just in the process of discovering, having just set up my own business, it’s not.For one thing, you have to go out and sell your business, you haven’t got a nice manager there to give you work, and if there’s no work in, or the computer goes pop, you can’t just sit and have a gossip, you need to go out and find more work or you don’t get paid.Small and micro-businesses are still businesses.... What gets me going is that she is only been doing this for a short period of time and already has learned that as a one man business nobody really cares about your business or is interested in what you do - why is that?I believe her great business attitude " I don't plan to grow beyond me and the computer..."
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Being an ex-monopolist telco
Very little of the progress in those years was innovated by them, since up until then they had no need to, they did not know how to - little has changed.So while I also have my doubts that these telcos will be able to provide any additional services, this is their only road to survival.... On the other hand maybe they learn this way what customer service, reliable infrastructure and running a business really means.But here is the thing, what the ISPs - with IP networks - did to Telcos, bloggers are doing to the traditional media, that is why they are sharpening their knifes pencils and the SaaS community is doing to the big software boys - we are cannibalizing a market and demand created by the likes of Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, in my case Sage and others, in many cases because they provide a poor service and product for inflated prices.
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