Industry on the Internet

Industry on the Internet – Part 1

I am continually astounded by the significant proportion of retired people who are now using the Internet to earn an income. I supervise a growing number of similar net based firms which in their entirety make me a larger income than I was able to earn working for someone else. I am not saying that I have to work less hours but I do not have go to an office any more, which gives me more hours in the day to practise my guitar. My quality of life and the amount I am earning has improved significantly.

Watching over a number of firms is exciting, but I have had to find better ways of being more productive and refining my working practices. To measure the activities of my customers and the financial aspects of my companies, I use a group of online services – you need high quality small business management software to to save you time and let you focus getting and watching over customers. I own a Quickbooks login and a NetSuite login. I can operate these on demand services from any location and they effectively allow me me to monitor all of the customer and financial activities in real time.

From my NetSuite login I am able to track all of the throughput on my e-commerce systems and oversee the outcomes of the Google Adwords groups that direct prospects to my internet stores. I have stopped using Microsoft Office which has been superceded by a Google Account which contains all of the systems I need to do the job, including electronic mail, word processing and spreadsheets. I can get at these applications from wherever I want to work.

I have acquired new skills and learnt new methods, I have found a huge volume of free and amazing value for money information which I have eagerly studied. One of the most amazing lessons I have learned is how to see and sub contract time consuming operations, to individuals who can do this quicker and cheaper. I can directly identify the moment at which I broke through my income threshold to my discovery of the profits of delegating some of the tasks taking up most of my time, to me increasing my income to beyond that of my pay whilst in permanent employment.

In Part 2, I cover the detail about how I get things done.