The Secret To Growing Your Business Exponentially
Naturally, with it being the end of the year, I have been spending some time reflecting on the previous year in order to get idea of where I want the business to go in 2007. As I thought about 2006 a couple of significant standouts came to mind.
The first example that came to mind was MySpace. In 2006 it hit its peak (at least in popularity) by becoming one of the most visited websites on the Internet. I’d say that a site created by one guy which now has traffic levels comparable to MSN and Yahoo is doing something right. And apparently News Corp. thought the same because it purchased MySpace for a few billion dollars.
Or what about the huge the explosive growth and eventual acquisition of YouTube. It went from a pretty cool website to a $1.6 Billion part of the Google machine.
Wouldn’t you like your business to have the same kind of results in 2007 that these businesses experienced in 2006? I know I would. That got me thinking and the one thing that I realized about all these success stories of the past year is that they all seemed to grow exponentially.
So I asked myself, “What caused these businesses to grow so fast?” and without a huge multi-million dollar advertising budget behind them. They did it with a business model and methodolgy that allows its users to help add to and grow the content and community of their business.
The popular name that most have adopted for this model and methodology is “Web 2.0″. And for the purposes of this article, I’m going to stick with that name.
We’ve Put Ruby on Rails!
I setup Ruby on Rails yesterday on my Apple G5 Desktop. It was actually a really easy process because I follow this step by step guide.
I read through most of the Agile Web Development with Rails book on Saturday so I could get more familiar with the basics. I have the Rails Recipes book on order so I can get a jump on some of the more advanced things you can do with Rails.
So far so good as far as the experience goes. We’ll see if I still think the same thing when I build my first web application on rails.
I have a few ideas for what I’m going to build but I have to narrow it down more before really getting started. Thats my next step.
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that’s optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.
This is my first real opportunity to explore the advantages and details of Ruby on Rails. I’m going to test it out by building a basic web application and we’ll see where that takes us.
I was very impressed with their demo video and the other services that have been created using Ruby on Rails. I thought at first that it wouldn’t be a good alternative to .NET 2.0 but after more research I realized that it is a perfect alternative to .NET.
I guess we’ll see how this goes.