May 15, 2008 Issue

     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

                    

 


J.J. Mousepad                           

 

 

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Top Ten Things You'll Never Hear from your Consultant

  1. You're right; we're billing way too much for this.
  2. Bet you I can go a week without saying "synergy" or "value-added".
  3. How about paying us based on the success of the project?
  4. This whole strategy is based on a Harvard business case I read.
  5. Actually, the only difference is that we charge more than they do.
  6. I don't know enough to speak intelligently about that.
  7. Implementation? I only care about writing long reports.
  8. I can't take the credit. It was Ed in your marketing department.
  9. The problem is, you have too much work for too few people.
  10. 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Credits &       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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