Internet, eCommerce & New Media industry guide

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Internet
Once regarded as a geeky subject for Maths-minded intellectuals, this industry has revived its image. With creativity needed for design work within the internet and ecommerce business there is now a wider variety of people to go with the networking, maintenance and web management positions.Gaming culture has changed as well in the face of the internet with multiple players being able to get involved in games with competitors across the world. There are vacancies here in game design and development, but these are highly competitive

Ecommerce
Ecommerce saw a massive rise in interest in the late nineties as the dot com industry grew and bust. Well grounded businesses survived this and are still prospering. Nearly anything can be bought on the internet from cars to clothes and your weekly shopping. Without mentioning services that you can hire such as builders, party planners and recruitment agencies. Nearly anything that you want or need can be found on the internet. For you to be a success you need to find a gap in the market, sell a superior product or sell at a cheaper price.

New Media
New media is the term used to refer to the Internet and the companies based on it. Successfully working in new media can be extremely rewarding, especially financially. With immensely popular sites such as MySpace and YouTube being sold for hundreds of millions of dollars, there is money to be made in new media. But it is also a volatile area that leads to far more site owners having to cut their loses and seek alternate employment than make it big. This is especially the case since the bursting of the dotcom bubble – the abundance of huge pay packets in the late 1990s is a thing of the past. Nevertheless, with the Internet here to stay and broadband uptake on the increase, there are new innovations cropping up regularly and there is no faster, more instant media form.

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