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The Ecommerce Explosion: Are Opportunities Blown?
How can I make a living doing something fulfilling? This is one of those questions that we all ask ourselves at one point or the next. The answer to this question lies in finding a market for your talents.
Sometimes, you won't know what your talents are until you've taken a few wrong paths. One way to discover new talents is to go to school. This week, we're going to take a look at earning a degree in ecommerce.
The Ecommerce Honeymoon is Over, but It's Still Thriving
Ecommerce has a legendary history. It exploded onto the business scene as the main application associated with the Internet throughout the 1990s.
When people discovered that business could be transacted with the click of a mouse button, entrepreneurs came out of the woodwork. Thousands of new ecommerce companies were created throughout the nineties and investors went wild trying to make money off of them.
The end of this speculative period came around 2002, when the ecommerce bubble finally burst. Today, while the level of investment in new ecommerce startup companies has trailed off, the ecommerce job market is quite healthy.
Start Your Ecommerce career with a Business Degree
If you want to work in the ecommerce sector, you should think about getting some sort of business degree. Some schools offer associate degrees in ecommerce, as well as bachelor's degrees in business, management, and marketing, for example.
Many of today's top associate and bachelor's degree programs allow students to focus their business studies in the ecommerce field, because of the industry's expected potential. Ecommerce business students will generally learn how business is conducted on the web - i.e. how web goods are advertised, the technology of billing, and how transactions are secured.
An MBA in Ecommerce Could Open Doors
For those already in the job market looking to find ecommerce opportunities, graduate school might be an option. Earning a Master's degree in Business Administration with a focus in Ecommerce can often open career doors.
Graduate MBA programs are a hotbed for new business ideas and entrepreneurial endeavors. Because students are discussing and studying the latest trends in business and management, they are often recruited by companies for lower-level management jobs.
If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, are excited about the idea of working with cutting-edge business models, and are looking to be on the cusp of a new business frontier, then you should start preparing for a career in ecommerce by going to school.
About the Author
Kirk Bangstad is an artist manager and singer working in Chicago, IL. His previous experience includes consulting for technology companies in the Silicon Valley and serving as a field director and publicist for a statewide political campaign. Kirk holds a B.A. in government from Harvard University.
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