Are you taking Threat as an Opportunities

May 27, 2010 | Posted by admin

When come to talk about SWOT Analysis, there are four factors of S.W.O.T which represents Strengths; Weaknesses; Opportunities and Threats. It is important to note that there are the Internal as well as the External Factors which consist of the four factors.

the Internal Factor – consist of the Strengths and Weaknesses are issues involved mainly capability related
The External Factor – consist of the Opportunities and Threats which are environmental related.

The fact that whether an internal or external factor occurred, you have to use your own capability to deal with to your best ability. We all like good problems, and tends to avoid bad issue like the THREATS. Unfortunately there is nothing much you can do to avoid the Threats since when it come, you cannot stop it. However, that does not mean nothing you can do about it.

Proactively, you have to predict a threats and do whatever precautionary steps to mitigate it to the lowest impact to your business. When come to Internet Business, perhaps the Threat happen very fast and so is its effect. However, depending on how you look at it, THREATS in fact can be an opportunities to your Internet Business. Do evaluate the following case studies happen recently :-

Case Study – Server Down
The server which my blog was hosted caught fire in the hosting company. Normally, there is a backup but somehow a month is over, there is not sign of recovery.

Remedies – Server Down
After 2 days was down and I saw no sign of recovery, I migrated my blog to another hosting company. It was a lot of work because I did not back up my post database earlier. However, I went ahead to do the migration with a new configure of the wordpress blog to be more Search Engine Optimized. My blog was not efficiently optimized during the earlier set up.

As a result, there was some 30% improvement to the “Click Thru Rate” CTR. . Nevertheless, there are other Opportunities in Internet Business