Could the internet make you rich?

ITV 1 – Fri 06 Nov 2009

 

Tonight – Could the internet make you rich?

 

Could the internet be your route to making a fortune? Jonathan Maitland meets the entrepreneurs who are using new technology to forge new careers and create new opportunities.

 

This is a very informative video made by somebody who has been bitten, and quite badly too, in the past by the promise of making his fortune on the internet. The problem, as spelt out by Jonathan, is that he invested a lot of his money in the stock market and specifically on the dot.com boom which we know all to well went bang!

 

Jonathan surprisingly takes a very unbiased and sometimes positive, approach to this blossoming industry and does what I would call some very constructive reporting on the subject. Let’s not for one minute dispel the fact that there are unscrupulous people out there that will happily sell you nothing for your hard earned cash with the promise that you will become a multi millionaire whilst you sleep, but let’s do look at the positives that are out there. As with any industry the more positive feedback and attention it gets the more it will blossom, and so will the criminals. That’s why it is everybody’s responsibility to do there due diligence before buying, selling or trading online and this is one aspect which Jonathan overlooked.

 

The content of the video covers a varied range of online business but due to the length of the episode they obviously cannot cover every one that is out there. You may also see a sudden boom in You Tube videos and self styled stylists popping up all over the place as we all grab for that elusive portion of digital wealth that we so long to savour. There’s an insert of the Lauren Luke makeup phenomenon that is taking the world by storm and I say “you go girl” for her ingenuity and there is also the usual eBay type store that’s trading in toddler footwear but interestingly enough they also covered businesses that were not previously cyber based that have moved from the high street store style of business to become solely internet based and making much more money that they were previously.

 

The Internet Marketing sector of online businesses wasn’t mentioned once during this report and I can only think that this is due to the complexity and vastness of this one subject.

 

The video is currently still available on the ITV Player website here but I think it will only be up for 30 days from initial transmission so if you haven’t seen it and 30 days has passed since it was first broadcast then do a search on the likes of YouTube and I’m sure you will come across a copy of it.

 

To finish off I would like to say that Jonathan Maitland closed his report in a very positive way by prompting some of the interviewees whether they thought they were going to make it big in their online businesses. I think that any form of positive input or prompting that will help instil a positive mentality for anybody running and growing a business is a good thing.