As you may know, I have decided to start my own web design business. As part of my corporate strategic planning, (it’s only been a week, and I’m already beginning to talk like a first-year business student, or worse, a marketing student), I set up a new website: www.rubicondesigns.net.
This website has existed for less than 2 weeks. Today I received an email from a company in Romania asking if there was any additional work that I could pass their way. I also received an email from a hosting company in the States asking if I would like to join their affiliates program. And these were emails from real people, not automatically generated spam. I know this because I replied to them, and got a proper, human response.
What I find amazing is that I can get two emails from opposite sides of the world within a fortnight of putting up a website. But the really amazing part is that when I got these emails, I did not find it strange at all. My initial reaction was “cool, at least the website has caught someone’s attention”. The more I think about it, the weirder it is. Here I am, a small part-time web designer, sitting in my house in Limerick, emailing people I have never met before, while they sit in their offices thousands of miles away.
Think about it for a moment.
Twenty years ago, the only way to meet someone from a foreign country was to physically visit their country or for them to visit yours. It involved arranging flights, hotels, travel visas, passports etc. Now, you can receive an email from an absolute stranger and not think twice about the fact that they are on a different continent. That’s the beauty of the Internet.
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