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Author: Stephan Miller
A lot of the innovations that you run into online are just offline businesses, marketing, and products that have been converted to their online form by an entrepreneur that decided to take a little risk and run with a dream. And if you think that everything has been done before, think again. Because
Someone, somewhere was driving down the road one day watching the billboards going by and had the brilliant idea of bringing them to the net and the first banner ad was born. Of course, it may not have happened that way and the heyday of banner ads are over, but there was a time when they were the best thing going and websites could make bank just by selling space on their homepage. Some still do. But all things must come to an end and this is why you should always be on the lookout for offline marketing techniques that are just waiting to be converted.
How many ebooks do you have on your computer? I have close to one gig of space dedicated to them and you know what, if I could convert all of my print books to ebooks, I would. It would definitely make it a lot easier for me to move next time. For info junkies, books are gold. I would rather have someone steal my car than all of my books. Then again all of my books may be worth more than my car. And if books are gold, than ebooks and their convenience are priceless. Taking books to the net is a billion dollar business. Just ask Adobe.
Who ever thought that a site for collecting Pez dispensers would become an American icon? I doubt that even ( Next Page )
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