Sunday, February 21, 2010

Program the Internet to generate wealth, Part 2

In the last post, I wrote about how to program the Net to generate wealth. Here are two examples (of dozens) of how I code the Web to gather information leading to wealth:

http://www.sureforms.net/connectivity.form
http://www.sureforms.net/createyourjob.form

The first one is sent to my 1,100 connections on Linkedin, and those who fill it out will enable me to build a business relationship with them.

The second form (createyourjob.form) enables me to cocreate jobs with those who are interested in creating a perfect job for themselves within one of my ventures.

A third form, at http://www.sureforms.net/gift4women.form, has generated dozens of leads also, enabling me to start a business relationship with those women.

My point is that you can easily "code" or program the Web so as to have "cyber assets" working for you. Why not?

The cyber economy is going to be the next economy, so it makes sense to learn how to use the Web as soon as possible.

Indian workers are already using the Web, built largely by the Americans, to export their services, mostly in information technology.

Meanwhile, in Canada and the US, most people still work in those antiquated physical spaces we call "cubicles."

Nothing wrong with working in a physical office or cubicle, mind you.

But if your work is information-based or knowledge-based, then you should be working in the cyber economy, where your knowledge and information can be represented and then re-presented in MYRIAD ways. Every representation, of course, is a NEW product, serving NEW clients and NEW markets.

This is what I call Cyber Capitalism, and most people (99.9% of the population) do not yet know about the secret principles regulating the Cyber Capitalistic Economy.

If you want to read more about this Cyber Economy, read the book The Sovereign Individual, by James Davidson. A bit technical, but worth to read, for the two authors are extremely knowledgeable about the new cyber economy.

But let's get practical and ask, "WHY would you want to program the Internet?"

Because the Internet is your business manager, your top talent, your employees, your suppliers, your partners, etc.

The Internet can be any of those entities, all working for you or with you.

In short, in your cyber career or cyber business, you don't need to have employees. You can have associates operating on a worldwide basis for you.

But you first need to create cyber assets that, like the two simple online forms above, will generate information for you. Once you have this information, you can work with it, and build relationships with people.

This is another secret I discovered on Linkedin. There are many people who have thousands of connections, yet they don't know how to build a relationship with their connections. It's like having a telephone directory: sure, you have thousands of names and phone numbers, but none of those people trust you, and you also have no reason to trust them.

It doesn't work.

The solution is to program forms online so those who are interested, can share more of their information, and you can share more of your information. The trust will be built over time, and lead to opportunities to collaborate and cocreate value.

One thing is for sure: if you want to make a lot of money from the Internet, you'll have to build relationships with hundreds, if not thousands of people.

This is mainly because it's much more difficult to trust people on the Web: you can't see them, can't sit down and have a coffee with them, can't really know whether what they are telling you is the truth.

So unless you find ways to build trust with people online (who may come from dozens of countries, some of which you may have never visited), you cannot create a sustainable business.

Even a highly successful Internet business guru like Rich Schefren, or Eben Pagan, has had to create videos to show their friendly faces in order to build trust.

There is, however, a social networking site where trust is, more or less, already built: Facebook.

(to be continued)