Offline Atoms And Online Bits 

By Jim Slaton

With the ever increasing popularity of the Internet, technology & gadgets we have began connected more of our offline lives (made up of atoms) with the online world (made up of bits). This is becoming easier each day as the price of online storage reduces by half with each passing year! This means it's getting cheaper than ever to put our offline lives online.

In fact, the cost of online storage is so cheap it's creating a new economy based off FREE! We are not talking about the old school "free prize inside" tricks of the 20th century but truely free. Just look at Google which gives away nearly everything it makes which simplifies our lives including gmail, documents, anaylitics, calendars, readers, video players & much more.

Online games like "second life" our wildly popular and they are selling virtual online "property" to players who pay monthly fees to keep their stake on the web. This is not monopoly money. We are talking about hundreds of millions of dollars in real currency to purchase all sorts of things made of "bits" in the online world.

In the "offline" world real estate agents sell property that is valued based on location, traffic, surroundings, future development & more. Buyers choose to buy property with or without a building on it.

The "online" world is not much different than it's offline counterparts and depending on the property it can be just as expensive! A web domain is the property in the online world and the URL is the address to that property. A web domain without a website is like property without a house. 

Properties that have houses built on them are more expensive depending on how well they are built and their size. Developers in the offline world search for land to develop all sorts of buildings including houses, apartments or commercial buildings and web developers in the online world do the same.

The business of "flipping" properties online has become as popular (and finacially rewarding) as it is in the offline world. Websites like "Flippa.com" allow web developers to build or remodel an online property with the intention of "flipping" it for profit at auction. 

So if you haven't yet staked out your own piece of the online world yet then maybe you should consider talking with a web broker like New Step Marketing™. The right agency can have you sipping drinks on the beach of your own virtual property before all the dot coms run out.