An E-Community can showcase local businesses to the world. And, it can attract businesses from all around the world to re-locate into that E-Community.
Firstly, an E-Community is like a light house that shines its light outward. It can help businesses market themselves further out into the world. Well beyond the local area. Most businesses could benefit from an increased worldwide visibility. In an E-Community, businesses engage their customers locally and world wide. The E-Community will promote all the businesses in that community that want to climb aboard. For many of our regions, we have encountered economic hardships due to the recent economic downturn. It’s time to think about business in a different light. It’s time to market more to the world. It’s time to shine our light further out.
Secondly, an E-Community is like a light house that is attractive to business. The E-Community will promote what the community has to offer. The advantages of an E-Community can be used to draw businesses to move to that local area. Many business owners and employees today can work outside the main office as long as they have a good Internet connection. Imagine working from a home office or an office where the daily commute is short. Business can be done almost anywhere now a days. An E-Community is attractive to business because of its innovative nature as well. I believe many new job types and skills will be birthed in an E-Community.
So how does this E-Community make this happen? An E-Community uses social media, blogs, websites, mobile applications and other tools. But the real heart of the E-Community is the people. They learn or adapt to use any means to engage others. The real success of an E-Community is engagement with others. When darkness falls, the community rises up and turns the lighthouse light on.
I hope that you are beginning to see that an E-Community is good for business and the community.
