People think that itís easy to make money from the Internet.
While the cost of setting up a company has gotten cheaper on the
average compared to the Industrial Age overhead. You also have
more people with the same idea to compete with now. So in
exchange for less capital, you get more competition. If itís not
one thing itís the other.
There is a theory why not everybody, a large majority of online
businesses fail to make money online: The Pareto Principle.
Simply stated. The Pareto Principle posits that there is an
imbalance in the way wealth flows. A significant minority of a
certain group will always get a larger share than the rest of
the majority in terms of certain desirables like profit, market
share, customer satisfaction, etc.
Most people tend to assume that all things are in equilibrium in
one way or another. It was assumed that 100 units of input
usually and logically gives you simply 100 units of output as
well. But this is not the case. This fallacy is so prevalent
most people take it at face value.
The Truth is that 100 units of input can actually give you back
0 to more than 100 units of output. If in actuality, you take a
look at reality, when the causes and effects of a phenomenon are
analyzed, more often than not it will show an imbalanced result.
We use the numbers 80/20 to show the disparity in general, but
the results arenít usually along this ratio. There is usually no
50/50 balance but more often an 80/20, 70/30, or even a 99/1
ratio. Therefore, when we have grasped at the true critical
relationships of a phenomena, then the natural state of things
is most likely to be significantly imbalanced.
So what does this have to do with making money online? Very
elementary, Dear Watson. The Pareto Principle also applies in
force to the Internet. Why are most businesses not making much
money online? It is because a businessís presence is not
optimized to its strengths, giving Murphyís Law a big field day.
To be more specific, here are the reasons why:
1. Great wealth flows to the most optimized. Businesses that
have spent the time to capitalize on their strengths and protect
their weaknesses will have the advantage in attracting more
business. This is because most people online who want to
purchase a service or a product prefer that it can be reliable
as well as trustworthy with the money they spend.
Businesses that have determined their target market and spent
the time aggressively wooing these customers get the most
revenue. Take note that even a slight advantage is highly valued
by customers.
2. Concentration on a strength that matter to the customer.
Markets are fickle. And online businesses that take the time to
identify their target markets needs and wants will always get
the customerís favor and money.
Another benefit on making the effort to communicate with the
customer is the surgical and precise allocation of capital to
support and enhance a feature customers value. Businesses like
these are never flying blind.
3. Businesses that react or initiate actions to positive or
negative customer feedback the fastest gets the businesses.
Companies that address a customerís feedback for better service
and sustains it while making a profit, gets more customers to be
loyal to the business.
Since customers mostly do not want to start searching for a
better business unless they see the advantage from a competitor
or worse, forced by incompetent service from their current
provider, it would logically be better for a business to just
make significant adjustments to keep customers than lose them to
competitors.
Most online businesses do not see the potential dangers of
ignoring feedback from customers and not taking action to
rectify their concerns in the most effective way possible. The
next point explains this.
4. Small factors exponentially affect huge outputs. Imagine a
herd of zebra in an African plain. When one zebra spots a lion
nearby, it alerts the rest of the herd, and they run for safety.
Same goes with the money from customers. If at a crucial moment
negative feedback from customers hit critical mass, customers
will start moving to the nearest seemingly competent competitor
for safety. Customers follow safety in numbers.
This is also the same for making profits. Customers who found
gold in a company in terms of product or service will try to get
everybody else on the bandwagon, creating a vortex of spending
that concentrates on the lucky company. Sales will be
exponential as long as it can sustain the phenomena that
customers are crazy about.
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