Email+Business

Email has benefited the business world enough to have become a "network effect." A network effect is defined as, "a phenomenon whereby a good or service becomes more valuable when more people use it." Email was a good service before it entered the business world but once it was taken into use by businesses around the world its value skyrocketed.

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Since the inception of email the business world as been able to boost all of its profits tenfold. Email allows companies to do so much such as addressing customers needs, tracking shipments across the world, show the new trends in the business world and help with marketing.

No longer to businessmen and women need to leave their homes to meet with a possible buyer, they can speak directly to each other with use of email. According to a UCLA report; "72 percent of Americans use the Internet and 88 percent of internet users use email. In business, these percentages are for all practical purposes 100 percent." (http://www.maximumadvantage.com/impact-of-email.html) It just goes to show what email has done for the business world.



It is no longer up to the quite employee to go out and try to talk to a group of people in order to find new customers. Now the company as a whole can directly contact investors and get quick responses in return.

However, just like all good things their is a downside to email in the business world. Just like everything else in the online world there is always the threat of viruses, spam and hackers. However these three could turn out to be twice as harmful as they could be in a normal surrounding. In the business world, emails have access to credit cards, social security and other personal information of people. There is always the threat of losing everything, but with the increased productivity it is a risk worth taking.

The second, and most common problem of email in the business world is the employees themselves.

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The use it to check their own personal emails, chat with friends and like Kevin hide so not office appropriate things. Most places have been able to contain this and have really tightened up the rules on personal usage in the workplace.

Email has done nothing but help out the business world and will continue to do as the programs become more advanced, virus protectors have been able to cut down on the problems as well as managerial recognition of personal usage of email. The only direction that this can go now is up.

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http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/network-effect.asp#axzz1niZKaRAl

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