10 Advantages of Being Digital

MonsterPost Editorial

6 years ago

Being digital brings its own advantages and inherent characteristics that make your business and life fast and conforming. You can not only get things done faster and better, but you can also open new avenues for your business. The following post reflects on the ten most crucial advantages of being digital, to urge people who are still offline to join the digital world and tell the already online people the perks they can enjoy by being digital.

Online Banking

Nobody wants to stand in a long queue in a bank to wait for simple bank transactions. With the rise in the number of people that have accounts in the banks, the queues became longer and longer and the whole banking thing tiring and daunting.

The digital world, though, has the best solution for all kinds of banking requirements - Online Banking. One can just login using the mobile phone app, or the computer and complete all kinds of banking operations without going to the banks. Money transfers, bill payments, NRI Banking, online shopping, balance checking and what not. All you have to do is to activate your online banking, and you are all set.

Digital Marketing

Another blessing of the digital revolution that made the business better and faster is the Digital Marketing. The marketing campaigns are now not limited to the ads and print media; pamphlets and other newspaper announcements; and those man-to-man marketing templates; it can be done online using the internet resources.

The digital marketing is a whole process that comprises of social media activations, viral video or ad creation, online promotional activities, blogging, link creation and online promotional activities, etc. that spread the word around. It offers better trend observation, better data withdrawal, and understanding, better audience and customer targeting, better dissemination of the information to everybody out there. In fact, the digital marketing has expanded the business horizons to the unimaginable scales and has now become an essential part of all kinds of businesses.

E-Commerce

We love shopping online. Right? Mainly because we don’t have to step out of the comfort of our homes; don’t have to deal with the bargaining and stuff; don’t have to think twice over a thing being original or duplicate and can scan through as many items as possible without any smirks or dead stares from the seller. Online shopping has made business expansion easier and better, especially for people that don’t have any shop or any other kind of selling the place.

Ecommerce themes have led to the flourishing of millions of SMBs across the globe and the availability of things such as social media and online banking has helped them to earn a living. The handicrafts, regional and traditional workers and local technicians get registered as sellers of products and skills and can earn without having to pay huge shares to the middlemen who earlier used to play a crucial part in the business. The CEO of a leading interior designing company in Kochi says that being digital has proved to be beneficial to his business many a time. The increased online presence has resulted in getting customers, and it also has made the business more smooth and efficient.

Online Trading

“We sell things that you want” and “We want these things do you have them” are the two fundamental questions that govern the world of trading. The seller and buyer connection is a vital link that defines the profits and losses and the middlemen used to make earnings in the traditional trading model. Nowadays, the sellers and buyers are connected digitally which means that sellers have hosted their information online and the buyers can call them, send inquiries and complete all the other steps of business online only. Online Trading has connected the wholesalers, retailers, sellers, buyers and every other possible entity in the trading world in the best possible manner.

E-Learning

Gone are the days when learning was limited to classrooms and people with the right resources. Gone are the days when extra classes and tuitions after the school at the teachers’ homes were the things for the average students and the people who were living too far from the tuition centers and didn’t have money for the same and were not able to join in. The digital world has transformed the face of education and its dissemination as well. These days one can access all kinds of tutorials free of cost at hundreds of Indian as well as international websites using just their phones and a decent internet connection. And the same applies to all kinds of learning – scholastic, college level, competitive exam preparation and everything else.

On-demand Audio and Video

Video and Audio on Demand have become the integral parts of communication and entertainment these days. Interactive TV, PC based video watching, audio downloading and listening, entertainment videos, learning videos, tutorials and what not. You can upload just one video on your channel and can interact with millions of your viewers and fan in a few minutes. Or, you can log on to the internet and watch billions of videos of any kind online. You can make calls audio and video free of cost and enjoy the benefits of going digital.

Cloud Computing

Being Digital allows you to enjoy the benefits of cloud computing as well. You can find online servers, online CPUs, and other computing peripherals online for the completion of the current task and relinquish them once the task is over. You only pay for the time you spent using that resource. Thus, you don’t have BUY things to get your TASKS DONE and can do so as many times as you want.

Cloud computing is much more than this simple scenario mentioned above and has opened new avenues for all kinds of computing requirements.

Real-Time Information

“What is the time at Male now?” “Where has the Train Number 1234 reached?” “Who is performing at Wembley tonight?” and much more such real-time information that was accessible to the journalists and classified people is available online. One doesn’t have to move places to access information about things available somewhere else. You have to perform a simple lookup over the internet, and you can access any real-time information you wish to have; within seconds.

Online Entertainment

Listening songs, doing fun activities, gaming, watching videos, solving puzzles, browsing websites, reading novels and poems and any other thing that forms your idea of entertainment – everything and anything can be done online. Digitization has modified the face of entertainment and has transformed the way people used to spend their time.

One can watch the shows being telecasted in the other corner of the world or can play online game marathons with people located millions of miles apart. Internet and digitization have made lives better and easier.

Cloud Storage

Being Digital allows you to make use of an unlimited amount of storage that is available online. You don’t have to delete data from your computers and other storage devices to add the new data as the Cloud Storage option is always there. You can join the cloud and stay as a free member with limited storage or a premium member with access to unlimited storage.

The digital revolution has changed the way people think, do business, entertain, trade, teach, learn, shop, live, and help.