Top Ten Business Future

10 Bisnis Yang Paling Menjanjikan Di Masa Depan

Hello teman-teman :-)Hampir semua orang punya cita-cita ingin memiliki bisnis sendiri.
Tapi sering kali, mereka bingung bagaimana memulainya, bisnis apa
yang harus mereka geluti dan bagaimana pula prospeknya.
Kebetulan "INC" -media bisnis terkemuka di Amerika- belum lama ini
merilis informasi penting bagi para pebisnis yang ingin mengetahui
bisnis yang prospeknya paling menjanjikan hingga lebih dari 10
tahun mendatang. Mereka adalah:

=> Internet Bisnis, data processing dan jasa informasi lainnya
=> Sistem komputer dan jasa yang berhubungan dengannya
=> Sofware
=> Jasa ketenagakerjaan
=> Konsultasi: management,science, dan teknis
=> Home Health Care
=> Jasa penasihat keuangan pribadi
=> Jasa perawatan anak
=> Seni, hiburan dan rekreasi
=> Fim/video

Dari data tersebut, terlihat bisnis nomor SATU yang paling
menjanjikan hingga lebih dari 10 tahun mendatang adalah internet
bisnis
Revolusi informasi memang tengah berjalan…. Seperti juga ketika
mobil yang ‘merevolusi’ kereta kuda, kamera digital yang mulai
menggantikan kamera manual dan kini INTERNET juga telah mengubah
kebiasaan masyarakat dalam mencari informasi dan berbisnis.
Dan sekarang kita –atau setidaknya anak muda sekarang yang menjadi
future market- semakin sering mendengar kata-kata seperti ini,
“Lihat di internet aja” atau “Cari di internet aja”.
Apapun… Mulai dari membandingkan harga gadget, booking tiket
pesawat, lihat berita terkini, lihat iklan penjualan rumah atau
mobil, beli macam-macam barang, dan masih banyak lagi. "Apapun
bisnisnya", internet tempat jualannya :-)
Internet memang tempat menjadi pemasaran produk dan jasa yang
paling menjanjikan saat ini. Karena jangkauan yang luas,
ke seluruh dunia. Selain itu juga karena pasarnya yang tertarget
dan sistem otomatisasinya, membuat pemasaran jadi lebih efektif
dan efisien dari segi biaya, waktu dan tenaga.
Sebenarnya masih banyak lagi kelebihan-kelebihan dalam memasarkan
suatu bisnis melalui internet.
Jika teman-teman ingin belajar bagaimana memasarkan produk
dan jasa di Internet lebih lengkap dan detil lagi –PLUS
dengan strategi, tips, wawancara dengan internet marketer kelas
dunia, dan ide-ide bisnis niche market - , kami akan mencarikan informasinya buat teman-teman.

MerchantCircle: World's easiest small business Web sites

MerchantCircle, officially launching today, is a site publishing tool aimed squarely at these very small businesses. The site has two things going for it. First, 14 million small businesses are already programmed onto the site, waiting for their owners to "claim" them and grow them into more robust micro-sites. If a business owner wants to get his or her shop online, and the site's barebones page is already set up, there may be no quicker way to establish an online presence.

Second, the service is designed to make sure that search engines and mapping services find the pages on it. While potential customers of the businesses represented on the site can go to MerchantCircle.com directly, the system's CEO, Ben Smith, realizes that most people find businesses on Google, so he's built his system to create pages that Google (and other search engines) will find and rank highly. In this regard MerchantCircle is a lot like CitySearch, whose local business listings frequently show up at the top of Google search results. MerchantCircle, however, is targeted at smaller communities where online expertise is not common -- in other words, the team won't be marketing to the Bay Area, Seattle, or New York.

At its free service level, MerchantCircle is absolutely worth a try for any small business. But the free product is just a tease. For $29.95 a month, MerchantCircle will put one paid ad a month on engines like Google and Yahoo. This advertisement management is the real value of MerchantCircle -- unless you are good at managing a paid online advertising program yourself, in which case you might be able to get more traffic for your money. For $99.95 a month, you get more ads placed and a personal consultant. Again, this is not a bad value for the business owner who values time over money and doesn't want to worry about the Web.

MerchantCircle's paid programs look like easy and relatively inexpensive ways for small businesses to get online in local markets. Businesses serious about expanding on to the Web will probably outgrow the service in short order -- but they might get some good value from MerchantCircle before that.

small business is the easiest

A small business may be defined as a business with a small number of employees. The legal definition of "small" often varies by country and industry, but is generally under 100 employees in the United States while under 50 employees in the European Union (In comparison, the American definition of mid-sized business by the number of employees is generally under 500 while 250 is for that of European Union). These businesses are normally privately owned corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships.

However, other methods are also used to classify small companies, such us annual sales (turnover), assets value or net profit (balance sheet), alone or in a mixed definition. This criteria is followed by the European Union, for instance (headcount, turnover and balance sheet totals).

Small businesses are common in many countries, depending on the economic system in operation. Typical examples include: convenience stores, other small shops (such as a bakery or delicatessen), hairdressers, tradesmen, solicitors, lawyers, accountants, restaurants, guest houses, photographers, small-scale manufacturing etc. Small businesses are usually independent.

The smallest businesses, often located in private homes, are called microbusinesses (term used by international organizations such as the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation) or SoHos. The term "mom and pop business" is a common colloquial expression for a single-family operated business with few (or no) employees other than the owners. When judged by the number of employees, the American and the European definitions are the same: under 10 employees.