What will Internet Marketing be like in 5 years?

[findtips]

The "What was Internet Marketing Like in the 90's?" thread got me thinking about where we're heading. Will article marketing still be in? Squeeqe pages? PPC?

What do you think it'll be like in 5 years?

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[darrinmcl]

I think it will be all about providing good quality information and driving traffic to your site.

Oh wait. That's what it is now... Hmmmm... Coincidence?

[Clint]

there is no such thing as marketing in the future. We will live in a world based on contribution and contribution alone. Money will be worth nothing reputation will be everything.
how do you like that prediction
Hope this helped until next time
clint

[Adrian Cooper]

Originally Posted by findtips

The "What was Internet Marketing Like in the 90's?" thread got me thinking about where we're heading. Will article marketing still be in? Squeeqe pages? PPC?

What do you think it'll be like in 5 years?

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Everyone will be treating it like a real business instead of buying hope.

[Andy Fletcher]

Originally Posted by apc01

Everyone will be treating it like a real business instead of buying hope.

That seems somewhat unlikely. People were buying love potions, get rich quick schemes and magic beans long before the internet came along and they will be for a long time after it's gone (at least as we know it now).

As with any industry competition will get tougher. The top niches such as porn, dating, pharm etc are already hyper competitive and you can't compete without serious technical as well as marketing skills. As time goes on the techniques and strategies that are currently employed in only the most profitable areas will trickle down to more people and used in more areas.

[Clint]

Originally Posted by apc01

Everyone will be treating it like a real business instead of buying hope.

I 100% disagree. in all seriousness, people will never stop purchasing hope.

[bgmacaw]

Originally Posted by findtips

What do you think it'll be like in 5 years?

So far as the US is concerned, it will be highly regulated by an increasingly socialist state and federal governments. Most current marketing methods will be illegal or very tightly controlled by licenses and so forth. Google will have moved off-shore after losing an anti-trust case and US citizens won't be permitted to use Adsense. In fact, most affiliate programs will be made illegal because they encourage spam and exploitation. Starting your own online product business will be very costly in terms of complying with new federal government regulations and heavily increased state taxes.

[findtips]

Originally Posted by bgmacaw

So far as the US is concerned, it will be highly regulated by an increasingly socialist state and federal governments. Most current marketing methods will be illegal or very tightly controlled by licenses and so forth. Google will have moved off-shore after losing an anti-trust case and US citizens won't be permitted to use Adsense. In fact, most affiliate programs will be made illegal because they encourage spam and exploitation. Starting your own online product business will be very costly in terms of complying with new federal government regulations and heavily increased state taxes.

So, you're a Republican right?

I'm just kidding... but boy have you opened up a can of worms! Or maybe I did by starting the thread. LOL


I can't share your doom and gloom scenario but I do agree that too much government crackdown might hurt free enterprise. A balance must be maintained.

[CDarklock]

Originally Posted by darrinmcl

I think it will be all about providing good quality information and driving traffic to your site.

Oh wait. That's what it is now... Hmmmm... Coincidence?

That's not what it's all about now. A lot of it is about gaming the system, cheating your way in, and abusing your customers.

The people doing that will leave the business, whether by choice or by force, and they will be replaced by a whole new crop of people doing that.

The ways people are doing that now will become unavailable, and new ways of doing it will become available.

In the grand scheme of things, nothing will change. There will be just as many scammers running just as many scams... they'll just be different scammers with different scams.

And the ethical business operators will not even notice the change.

[CDarklock]

Originally Posted by bgmacaw

So far as the US is concerned, it will be highly regulated by an increasingly socialist state

...and the honest, ethical business operator will not even notice.

(That's from a conservative Republican. Yes, with a capital 'R'.)

[bgmacaw]

Originally Posted by findtips

So, you're a Republican right?

Worse, mostly Libertarian.

Since the world (as we know it) is going to end Dec 21st of 2012 it really does not matter, does it ??

James

Originally Posted by bgmacaw

So far as the US is concerned, it will be highly regulated by an increasingly socialist state and federal governments. Most current marketing methods will be illegal or very tightly controlled by licenses and so forth. Google will have moved off-shore after losing an anti-trust case and US citizens won't be permitted to use Adsense. In fact, most affiliate programs will be made illegal because they encourage spam and exploitation. Starting your own online product business will be very costly in terms of complying with new federal government regulations and heavily increased state taxes.

The government is watching ....lol



James

[milan]

Article marketing will never be out. But just like TV has made people read less, onilne video has to be more popular in the next 5 years. So I guess article marketing is going to be much more combined with some video marketing in the future.
There you go, I've made a prediction and it's not nonsense

Oh yes, and Google will launch their new program "Adsense for refrigerators"