Its not easy to buy stuff online from here unless you have a credit card! So almost everyone is left out....if we could simplify this process & avail it to everyone...Trust me, the world of Ecommerce would undoubtedly open a door to a plethora of opportunities for almost everyone here in Botswana..
Ecommerce: A Door to a Plethora of Opportunities
Think of Facebook, Google, Twitter, Dropbox, SoundCloud....these are all Online businesses that are making billions as i speak...take a look at Whatsapp...something that started off as an App idea by a developer and is now a Big company making billions! It goes to show that an App idea can eventually become a successful business! What we need to do right now is shift our minds from believing only in business that are physical & create room for Online businesses. Most IT graduates don't have jobs....with the introduction of Ecommerce...they can use their skills to develop their own killer ideas, start their own Online businesses & easily make money as "Online Entrepreneurs". With this approach, they can definitely put their creative juices to good use & make a killing, creating more jobs for Batswana at the same time! Who knows, they may even become the next Billionaires! Its all possible!
Alternatively, we can introduce Ecommerce through BitCoin - The Revolutionary Digital Currency of the internet that uses peer to peer technology to perform online transactions. I wanna take this moment to applaud Botswana Innovation Hub for inviting BitCoin Experts over here to come & educate the public on the benefits of using BitCoin. I just hope we will be receptive enough as Batswana to adopt this payment system because it could be our door to the world of Ecommerce for now...while we wait for local banks to catch up.
I personally see so many good things out of this; local businesses can also adopt BitCoin and accept payments in BitCoin Currency. We would be able to buy anything from anywhere locally as well as Globally. Sending money to a relative abroad would simply be a breeze through BitCoin. All you need to do is simply pick your Smartphone/Tablet or Laptop/PC...login to your BitCoin Wallet, transfer the money into his or her BitCoin wallet and the he or she will receive that money in an instant! Its that easy! To create a BitCoin Wallet simply go to this website, click on 'Start a new wallet'...fill up all the necessary requirements & you will have your BitCoin Wallet in a minute!
Benefits of Online Entrepreneurship
I strongly believe that Entrepreneurship is the driving force of any country's economy...with the emergence of Online Entrepreneurs, our economy is bound to pick up...more jobs will be created. Being an Online Entrepreneur is beneficial in the following ways:
-You don't necessarily need an office...you can work from anywhere
-You can stand up for what you believe in; if you have an App idea, you can develop it, find your niche market & sell it online.
-You can make money even when you are sleeping
-Since you can work from anywhere as long as there is internet connection, you get to save a lot of money. You can test out your idea on the real world and see if it successfully takes off, if it doesn't you can make a few changes to it or come up with a new one...if it gains traction, thats when you can think of opening an office. This is how Whatsapp did it! they developed an App, gave it away for free to the world, the whole world loved it & couldn't live without it & they started selling it for $0.99, made a lotta money out of it and finally caught Facebook's attention which decided to buy the company for $22 billion. Whatsapp developers instantly became Billionaires!
All i can say is if we successfully pave the way for Ecommerce here in Botswana....
Anybody with a laptop & internet connection can make it BIG!
