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Internet Introspect

Home Office
Infrastructure
There is finally good news for those Home
Based Office Entrepreneurs whose product is marketed online. Well…there is
good and bad news as the following quote reveals,
"This has truly
been a case of the 'perfect online holiday shopping storm,'" said Keynote
analyst Roopak Patel in a release. "A confluence of factors have occurred
this shopping season and some of the largest online retailers clearly were
not prepared for the shopping onslaught."
The quote was taken from CNet News. Com
article entitled “Sites lag as shoppers throng online”.
.There is still a considerable amount of
opportunity purchasing whereas an Internet surfer happens on a web site,
likes what they see, and decide to buy on the spot. A couple of years ago
one would have thought this type of spontaneous purchasing would not allow
for a sustained buying market.
The type of figures (2.1 billion dollars)
being thrown around as online revenue for the first week of December tells
you one, the Entrepreneur one thing. Online retail outlets are back. Even
though most of this case was spent on online retailers that have brick and
mortar type facilities, such as Sears, JC Penneys, Wal-Mart, etc.
Yes
this is great news for even the smallest online retailer and allows
justification for the presence of the industry. You should use this time
to put in constructive work that you can accomplish while you waiting to
increase your customer base. In other words, you should be aggressive in
establishing a valuable customer base.
As for the constructive work to be done,
now is the time to build your infrastructure in anticipation of an
e-commerce Christmas buying season during the fall of 2004. Experts and
Analyst agree that it will be the access of high-speed connections that
spurs this comeback. Ubiquitous Computing (UC) will play a tremendous
role in the revival. UC is a live network that connects your home
appliances with your computer and allows you to log onto the Internet with
any communication device capable of logging on to the Internet. After
which you will be able to control those home appliance units that are
connected to the network.
Now is the time to put those units or
networks in place that will support your efforts in conducting an online
e-commerce business, or any type of online venture. Take this time to
purchase the type of equipment you may need. One might keep in mind that
the purchase you make today must support the type of customer traffic or
heavy use you are contemplating in the future. Ensure that your new
equipment is upgradeable.
Infrastructure also means building the
kind of business contact network that may be needed to support your
business. If you have not already done so, join your local Chamber of
Commerce and other local business organizations. The business, political,
and community people you encounter within these organizations will no
doubt be beneficial to your efforts in more ways than one Entrepreneur
must always think of ways to improve the business even in times of no
growth. . They can act as a sounding board or lead you to valuable
resources that you may have not considered.
The 2003 Christmas buying season may
prove to be the catalyst needed to give hope to online marketers
everywhere.
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People are so Funny
WIFE VS. HUSBAND
A couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a
word. An earlier discussion had led to an argument and neither of them
wanted to concede their position. As they passed a barnyard of mules,
goats, and pigs, the husband asked sarcastically, "Relatives of
yours?" "Yep," the wife replied, "in-laws."
Words
A husband read an article to his wife about how many words women use a
day...30,000 to a man's 15,000. The wife replied, "The reason has to be
because we have to repeat everything to men... The husband then turned
to his wife and asked,
"What?"
Creation
A man said to his wife one day, "I don't know how you can be
so stupid and so beautiful all at the same time. " The wife responded,
"Allow me to explain. God made me beautiful so you would be attracted to
me; God made me stupid so I would be attracted to you!
Who Does What?
A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the
coffee each morning.
The wife said, "You should do it, because you get up first, and then we
don't have to wait as long to get our coffee." The husband said, " You
are in charge of cooking around here and you should do it, because that
is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee." Wife replies, "No, you
should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that the man should
do the coffee."
Husband replies, "I can't believe that, show me." So she fetched
the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of
several pages, that it indeed says.........."HEBREWS"
The Silent Treatment
A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving
each other the silent treatment. Suddenly, the man realized that the
next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early
morning business flight.
Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on
a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5:00 AM." He left it where he knew
she would find it. The next morning, the man woke up, only to discover
it was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go
and see why his wife hadn't wakened him, when he noticed a piece of
paper by the bed. The paper said, "It is 5:00 AM. Wake up."
Men are not equipped for these kinds of
contests.
God may have created man before woman, but there is always a rough
draft before the masterpiece
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Dear Tech Support,
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a
distinct slow down in overall system performance, particularly in the
flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under
Boyfriend 5.0.In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable
programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5 and then
installed undesirable programs such as NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf Clubs
4.1. Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply
crashes the system. I've tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these
problems, but to no avail. What can I do?
Signed,
Desperate
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DEAR DESPERATE,
First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while
Husband 1.0 is an Operating System.
Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme.html and try to download Tears
6.2 and don't forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that
application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run
the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.But remember, overuse of
the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence
2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1. Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad
program that will download the Snoring Loudly Beta. Whatever you do, DO
NOT install Mother-In-Law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background that
will eventually seize control of all your system resources.) Also do not
attempt to reinstall Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported
applications and will crash Husband 1.0. In summary, Husband 1.0 is a
great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new
applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to
improve memory and performance. We recommend Cooking 3.0 and Hot
Lingerie 7.7.
Good Luck,
Tech Support
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J.J. Mousepad

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Top Ten Things You'll Never Hear from your
Consultant
- You're right; we're
billing way too much for this.
- Bet you I can go a week
without saying "synergy" or "value-added".
- How about paying us
based on the success of the project?
- This whole strategy is
based on a Harvard business case I read.
- Actually, the only
difference is that we charge more than they do.
- I don't know enough to
speak intelligently about that.
- Implementation? I only
care about writing long reports.
- I can't take the credit.
It was Ed in your marketing department.
- The problem is, you have
too much work for too few people.
- Everything looks okay to
me. You really don't need me.
You Might Be a Consultant if...
- you ask the waiter what
the restaurant's core competencies are.
- you decide to reorganize
your family into a "team-based organization."
- you think that it's
actually efficient to write a ten page paper with six other people
you don't know.
- you believe you never
have any problems in your life, just "issues" and "improvement
opportunities."
- you explain to your bank
manager that you prefer to think of yourself as "highly leveraged"
as opposed to "in debt."
- you can explain the
difference between "down-sizing," "right-sizing," and "firing
people's arses," and you actually believe your explanation.
- you can spell "paradigm"
and you actually know what a paradigm is.
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Acknowledgements
Katara-Rhythm gives credit and
thanks to the contributors to this Newsletter. And a heartfelt thanks to those
media researchers and publications, and any organization that have provided
Katara-Rhythm a source of information to pass on. Sources are listed as
follows;
1996 The Learning Company Inc. and its
licensors, Softkey Intl., Inc. Dover Pictorial Archive Series.
IMST Masterclips , Nova Development Corporations
Platinum Edition of Art Explosion. Internet Week, August & December 2001
Entrepreneurs IT
Figures, December 2001, (ComStat and The Kelsey Group) and the Cultural Access
Group and eMarketer.
Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times, and San Francisco
Chronicle
PC World-September Issue, The Undisputed Champ "Best
Buy".
Exhibitor Relations, Inc via Hollywood.com
USA Today - Crayon.net - CNet
Think about it quotes from The Print Shop Press Writer.
Pittsburg, California city view from Mapquest.
Politically Correct Christmas Greeting from The
LaughZone.com.
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