Internet Business: overcoming stereotypes

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Stereotype is defined as the general view held about a group with shared habits, cultural profiles, racial or professionals, etc.

Some dictionaries define the stereotype as "Idea or image accepted by most as the standard or model or behavioral qualities." Today I want to comment on the importance of overcoming stereotypes when doing business online.

These pre-conceptions can be racial, professional, gender, national, religious, and generalizations are important in our communication with others. But too often also tend to be negative, malicious or best, superficial. The ability to discern between the bias and the standard is a necessity when doing business online, to avoid delays when assessing potential partners or services.

The Age of Communication provides us with different human groups, which requires a design that encourages open and cooperative relationships with people different from ourselves. The very foundation of the Internet business is determined by the ability to connect with the world.

When I started on the Internet just out of Cuba. I did not know how it worked all: Credit Card, Internet, the dangers of "phishing ... I was dazzled by the potential of technology to promote our work, in finding the levels of automation in contemporary societies. So excited, as he discovered the "modus operandi" behind the appearance of Internet, I was telling family and friends ...

I heard it all:

- Money from home? ... Let steal your credit card number, of course "they" do business on the Internet! (... This terrified me, until I realized that I had no credit card).

- Virtual Communities to learn what ...?. Offenders virtual! S genius pretending to go through to steal the Social Security number. (The 2 most common stereotypes on the Internet, the "Scammer" and "Guru". With this I panicked even more when, in fact, some affiliate programs I asked the SS # as a matter of taxes)

- Multilevel what? Pyramid! Boy ... look, find a real job! (Stereotype of Network Marketing as a Ponzi Scheme)

- Associate of where ...? Is the India? Al-Qaeda! (... You know)

He trembled every time she thought of the potential versions of hell that awaited me ... I was reading, researching, re-read, paralyzed between "information overload" and distrust.

Common sense brought me back on Facebook, when an associate of Indian origin living in UK and is now involved with me in one of my SEO Business, said goodbye in the chat conversation after our first contact with a "khuda hafiz "(god bless you in Spanish ...)

... I closed the chat and I began to weigh options: block Facebook, change the account, format the hard drive, throw the computer, call the FBI!

At last! I lost too much time trying to discern something I already knew: that the Internet, like all life, people and events have a reality beyond the stereotype.

Run on unfounded prejudice takes precious time that we can use to implement an Internet business model and global cash.

Study, research and take your time (the tools to check are in the same Internet.), But be aware of your own actions, I know cooperative, courteous and transparent. He thinks whoever and wherever you are, on the other end is a person like you, taking time to educate themselves and build your reality as you build you your own.

You avoid the ill-informed preconceptions you to hide or get diverted valuable partner of the opportunity at your fingertips. But above all, to distinguish between "wheat straw" in the reality of Internet business and choose where you want to be, you will avoid yourself fitting end to stereotypes which we model the collective unconscious.