Slow Data and High Speed Data Caps Are Hurting Small Businesses
Reasons why high speed data caps and are hurting small business owner's. Slow internet speeds cost businesses lots of money, loses customers, loss of sales, frustrated employee's, and can make your business look very unprofessional and incompetent.
Many small business owner's and website owner's are looking for affordable, unlimited high speed data to properly run their businesses. Unlimited high speed data, if available at all often comes with a hefty price tag which many small business and website owner's cannot afford. On top of that, many businesses are run off laptops that need a constant high speed data to run the mobile hot spot as open Wifi connections are not a safe way to operate a business because they can be easily hacked which can result in unsecured customer information, bank information, etc. Some companies, like Cricket offer unlimited high speed data on their cell phones but will not allow a mobile hot spot to be used with it so this renders their high speed data useless to website owner's and business owner's. AT&T and several other companies offer unlimited high speed data on landlines but not on cell phones or mobile hot spots. Most businesses are running on laptops now so this presents a problem for sales persons, website owner's, and business owner's who need to travel. Many people on Social security retirement, disability and other low income programs cannot afford internet but need internet to update services. Many are disabled and could shop online but cannot do this because they do not have internet at all or can only afford internet with low data caps, thereby losing businesses more money. Families with low income jobs make purchases every payday. Many of these purchases could be made to online businesses but most low income families cannot afford expensive high data plans and high end cell phones thereby losing businesses even more money. If high speed internet were free businesses would make more money and when businesses make more money, our country makes more tax dollars which increases our national GDP value, thereby improving our overall economic status which in turn creates more jobs, more revenue, more tax dollars, and more GDP. Scroll down to see more reasons lack of a reasonably priced unlimited high speed data plans are hurting businesses.
Outdated Websites Lose Customers Because of High Speed Data Caps
It takes huge amounts of data to update and maintain websites, outdated websites can lose customer's for businesses and website owner's. A good website must be maintained daily in order to prevent outdated material. When customer's see poorly made websites or incomplete webpages (because the website owner ran out of high speed data), they generally click off the page and look for a more professional looking website. 99.9 percent of these potential customer's will make a mental note of that website and never return to it even when they find it in the search engine list. eCommerce businesses suffer tremendous losses due to slow internet speeds. Customer's will move to other websites if pages load to slow.
Advertiser's Refuse to Pay Revenue On Outdated Websites
Most businesses that advertise products or services on websites via Google adsense and other programs cannot get paid for the ads they have spent countless hours and huge amounts of data setting up if anything is outdated on the webpages.
Outdated Business Social Networking Pages Lose Customer's Due to Lack of High Speed Data
Online social networking is an essential of a successful business. Many small business owner's rely on business Facebook pages, business Google + pages, and Twitter pages to promote their business and communicate with customer's and potential customer's. This means business owner's need to hire someone or get a family member or a friend to monitor these pages so they can tend to managing the business or building their website. Many small business owner's build their own websites and social networking pages plus try to manage and operate their business which can be very overwhelming. Limited high speed data means they have to purchase more data every day since most high speed data packages over the plan are 1 mg which can be used up in a matter of hours while preparing video's for the website, working on the site, and managing social networks. For someone starting out in business the limited and expensive high speed data can slow and even stop production for goods and services until the plan is renewed. If small business owner's are getting help from family, friends, or other's they are most likely expected to pay for the data used by their helper's or employee's as well.
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