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Obviously, having an Internet presence is important for doing business online. But it doesn't mean simply being a mere silent billboard in…
Larry Dague could be described with many labels: college drop-out, musician, diver, programmer, web designer, even inventor. The one that is most evident now, however, is online success.
An interesting question was recently asked of me in one of the Marketing Challenge's Private Site discussion forums by Yasser Masood, the owner and webmaster of http://www.computerarticles.com/.
In the past, I often declared that the Internet is not a communications medium. It's much more than that. I'm not alone as even the government thinks the same way I do. For example, my country's telecommunications watchdog -- the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (or CRTC, which is comparable to the American FCC) -- officially declared so in 1999.
A student of mine, Jeff, recently graduated from my web development class. He's new to the industry and trying to build his own business. He once asked me the following question, which I thought was interesting:
Very often, I am confronted with a dilemma. One was surely an event that took place last week. During midterm exams at the college, in one of my marketing management classes, I caught a student cheating. This person had copies of class notes tucked underneath his chair, which he discreetly read from time to time, particularly when I was not looking his way.
