Romania vazuta de Dinulescu Alexandru

We all know that credit crisis means lower salaries for everyone… right? WRONG. In this following blogpost i am going to tell why IT salaries will still go up, and why demand wont be impacted by the economic crisis.

Rule Nr 1: If you dont have a website and you sell a product, you’re nobody. So you need a website, but for it, you need hosting, design, coding, maintenance, and someone who will update it. thus IT stuff

Rule Nr 2: Most websites are old, made with Front-page and the like, those need to be updated back to 21st standards, this means work for IT persons

Rule nr 3: The internet is the BIG thing now, like it or not, you need to have a comprehensive reach to all your potential customers, this means at least a website. If you want to do big things or are a medium to large enterprise you need or you should need some social media interaction, like a twitter account, facebook account, digg account, mostly everything you need to be able to see WHAT others are talking about you behind “your back” so to speak

Rule nr 4: Advertising in the classical media ( TV / Newspapers / etc) is very very expensive, and most often than not, it does not target your population segmant/interest. Instead of wasting money on that, why not build a dedicated advertising franchise on the web at a fraction of the cost and more more targeted towards your own company product/service.

Rule nr 5: Even after you build a website, social media accounts, etc, those need to be updated/modified/changed. This means you need someone to do it, if you cant do it yourself Or it’s cheaper to just hire someone to do it. Remember you may pay someone 15-20$/hour to do something but if you make 50$ per hour, it’s just natural to hire someone instead of you wasting time, however most people are either greedy or stupid and prefer to work longer days / weekends, which is a mistake. If you run a company, it’s more important to have new ideas / business strategies / etc than thinking “Damn, another long weekend, all my friends are out with thier families and i am sitting here doing X thing

And Finally Rule nr 6: We all know outsourcing to India/Pakistan/China/etc is the new future, however please note that there are language barriers, and most importantly from what i personally know from my clients, all the work done by pakistani/indian/chinese coders is way way sub par. so think about this, instead of having to pay someone 5$/hour to do a job, and then having to pay another one 10-15$ to fix the job (mostly they will say, it needs to be redone since it’s that CRAP), then you better pay 10-15$ from the first. Time is also important, you waste time at first, and then you waste time hiring the 2nd coder, if you’re company needs something done YESTERDAY, then this will mean that your company will suffer and you lose money either way. So think about this