After the recent PRU , blogging seems to be the favourite
activity for everyone including our politicians. Be it retired politicians, current MPs or ex-MPs, MPs on both government and oppositions, they are all starting their own blogs. I happen to read somewhere else before, that someone has suggested to put a mandatory prerequisite to have a blog before you can move forward in your politic career path.
Besides, as I grow older, I noticed that even secondary school students have started to blog. And the fact that they’re more knowledgeable and earn more than their older counterparts, is amazing. This is contrary when I was at their age almost 10 years ago. I hardly heard aboutinternet, and blog was such as ‘alien’ term to me back then (yeah blog does
exist > 10 years ago). But the world has changed now.
The impact on local market?
More or less this trend will contribute to a higher demand of internet products and services on local internet market such as e-book, especially on how to kick start blogging, how to write , how to make money from blogging and even perhaps, ‘what is blog’. \
Service is another area that could have higher demand in future. There are couple of potential businesses due to the rise of this activity.
First one. As we know, only a handful of politicians know about IT or specifically on how to setup a blog. Most of them (and their staffs) are also ‘buta IT’, or too busy to do that. So to kick off their blog’s development and setup, most likely it will be out sourced to 3rd parties.
Other than web development, SEO does have its own importance too even though most of us missed that part. But I don’t think politic blogs need this, since the author usually is well known public figure, and usually it’ll get promoted from link back and mouth to mouth promotion.
Apart from that, do you think that they have time to properly write and proof read it or translate the article to English or Bahasa Malaysia perfectly? And do they know how to post it? I doubt so. Another pool of money here.
Social media such as Facebook and Youtube has never been as important as now. When free advertising (or campaign) using this media is reachable to mass audience, and as effective as traditional media, it has become such a lethal weapon to your career or business. See
Colbie Caillat, and how successful she is. Similar concept can be leveraged to their career or business. They’ll need someone who has vast experience with tips and tricks on these areas to get this done with success. So why wait? Start mastering these skills and go to business.
You might say that there are a lot of Internet Marketers selling ebooks and providing such services. But it’s still not late to jump into the boat. It’s not necessarily true that the inventor will stay ahead of you forever, the late comer . IBM is the best example of computer inventor but end up selling the business to Lenovo due to stiff competition with creative rivals
With current politic and making money online trend nowadays, you can predict more blogs created everyday.
But I ‘m very aware that not everyone is interested to be affiliate marketer or internet marketer. I wish I can post my humble opinion about affiliate marketing, whether it is for everyone soon
Biz opportunities
e-book
content management
web development
SEO & optimisation
consultancy
**PRU – pilihan raya umum (General Election)
