What ever said and done, new business models such as online advertisements from visual medium or even contextual advertisement revenues are still vague to many people in the world. Generally speaking it only applies to be understood in certain geographical regions such as the Silicon Valley. Come on, bit.ly gets funded for URL shortening.

But over here, they think you are weird. Why? Why is this side of the world so ignorant about the change that is happening. If you don't know, why is it so difficult to learn and adapt as other parts of the world. I'm not speaking about investors only, but about advertisers/traditional brands. Most of them over here have an attitude of just being happy with what they have now. They have a perception that, the internet is not a profitable medium and main stream still gives them their rice bowl therefore, I'm not going to invest in your invest business.

Well you are wrong. It is here, "the internet" where, we have new things that are hitting the mass, such as new media production, social media applications and what not!? This is tomorrow we are talking about here! Your ROI's are going to be awesome if you actually believe in growing communities around brands. Over years and years of meeting people, the internet industry in countries such as Malaysia, has still a long way to go. I really have a vibe that things would change soon. But it needs a whole lot of guts and firmness to make it through.

Which is why I am saying, To exist here, To prove your business models right, To show that communities over brands is the most important traction, You need to STAND over it & have the GUTS to do so. And may success be yours! Though its sad that it's not being accepted as a norm here.