WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF THE INTERNET COLLAPSED FOR 2 YEARS?

Better question, what would the world do?

So many people don't realize that the marketing lessons that you have learned on the Internet easily translate to the brick and mortar world. If the Internet were to disappear suddenly, I know that I would be just fine.

Write the most thought-trough squeeze page ever.

And wait.

Well this may just become a reality so start thinking about your future now

Google vice-president issues stark internet warning | Technology | The Guardian

Run around screaming. Ha, only kidding. Marketing principles learned for I.M. would be just as applicable to real life marketing with some tweaking so I would probably find something in this field. Either that or I would bide my time until it came back by preparing and setting up a killer sales funnel for when the masses came back online.

Join a circus.

Will wired up a BBS (Bulletin Board System) and launch bbs doors game to waste time.

Start planning and designing for the day the internet went live while enjoying the fruits of our previous work... I'd also start playing the stock market more aggressively oh wait, I couldn't trade online eeeks!

I'd make a pact with the devil to bring the internet back, but only in my case. Then, i'll sell the service for an outrageous price. One of the conditions of the pact would be the following: to be the only one having the possibility of selling the service back to people. I'd be crazy rich in no time. Now, that's what I call Internet Marketing

That would be fun. I would like it to collapse.

The majority of the IM we do is based on classic direct marketing principles, and this can be more or less translated to offline marketing and advertising, so while the scenario mentioned about the internet going dead for 2 years is very far-fetched, I believe that the majority of marketers who are grounded properly in the principles of direct marketing will do just fine in the event of a protracted internet outage.

Paul

The same thing that would happen if there was a Zombie Apocalypse. I would drive a town over to a friends house and hook up for a LAN Party with guns ready for looters/zombies.

I might have to spend my time doing housework and more cooking.
I might even find time to tidy up the office!

Sandy

Well, I think I'd take some sabbatical break because there NO CHANCE I'd be willing to work again in the offline world.

I'd just pretend my ISP was down and catch up on reading all my saved Warrior Posts and eBooks. Two years go by so fast now I hardly have the thought to renew my URLs because it seems like "I just did that last month."

Also I'd be ready to spring into action and register some of the URLs I missed the first time around, maybe that other George Wright wouldn't be so quick to jump online again and I could have my name.

George Wright

I guess we will find out near the 2012 mark. Would that be another investment opportunity like the 1999 to 2000 computer date change was. Hmmm.

Take a two year vacation!


Cindy

What you mean no Internet?

Die of course.

No internet, OMG

I would die of shock.

I need my fix each day, i am an addict. LOL. I might actually have to go out and get a real hobby. YIKES! LOL

I would join the other successful marketers and move on to its replacement!

I doubt the internet would ever collapse but the US possibly will here very soon the way things are going

If the internet collapsed it would bring down with it the entire global economy. All those people saying they would go into a bricks and mortar business or direct mail aren't seeing how every type of business now depends very heavily on the internet, directly or indirectly.

Abdul.

Sell rocks that keep bears away.

I would freak out like no other and take one hell of a vacation until reality came back into play.

I would send a direct mail peice to every ex-Google employee offering them advice on getting a job where customers expect clear communication and fair service.

And I won't give them a twenty page content site with several legal statements either. It's my show now, bitches.

Teach martial art, build an army and become a warlord.

I'd cry like a little girl!! Then I'd start spending my money.

You mean before or after we get out of the bomb shelter?

If the Internet collapsed, I'm thinking that not much else is going to be looking so glamorous at the time either. I'd probably just pack some supplies and go drop down and do some gold panning somewhere and maybe mozy around and pick up some other gemstones and just let society go ape-**** berzerk from a distance.

I agree with Sal ... I think if the Internet collapsed it would be because of a much bigger and more serious problem or problems. I might stock up on food, water, and ammo, and stand my ground.

Then again, I might like your ground better and just take it from you.

In answer to the thread title... No pun intended. I would sell excess inventory management services to manufacturers and suppliers... and sell their excess in bulk quantities overseas...

I'd probably make more money than I do now, also play more music and spend more time with my family instead of being in front of a computer so much...

Either that or I would take my marketing knowledge combined with my telemarketing skills, and sell print advertising.

OR

I would get a group of telemarketers and sell appointments setting and lead generation services to Mortgage companies and Insureance companies...

Or I would take my Telemarketing skills and go to work for a big investment banking firm like merryl lynch, and cold call millionaires all day...

Or

I would just sell appointment setting services at a high ticket to investment bankers and stockbrokers who dont want to do their own cold calling....

The possibilities are really endless. Only 2 percent of the money that exchanges hands in America, for instance, happens on the internet. Our economy hardly depends on IM, and I dont foresee that ever being the case, although the internet "itself"... has become a communication tool that some companies, even offline ones could not survive without. They would have to totally restructure their information flow and go back to faxing and paper filing.

There's my answer... Hope it helps!

Ps. In agreement with Dennis on second thought... there might be worse problems than internet marketing being gone...

Well, don't suffer! You have to get another internet service provider to provide you internet service.

If it happens the whole world will suffer a lot

Will sell : How to survive for 2 years without internet for Dummies hard copy book

That will never happen so thankfully don't have to think about it =D

I would have to hit the library like many others

What would you do? just curious!

Well i think my life would stop for two years!

This is a good question. I'm not really sure what I would do, but it would be wise to start formulating a plan. I've heard rumors that the gov wants to take over the net. Both my husband and I now make our living online. A lot of people would be seriously hurting if the internet really crashed or got taken away from us all of a sudden.

If that happens, it would be back in the old days, convert e-books to a normal paper and sell it to the store.

Well, if that happened I'd throw my computer in the trash and find a hobby. Chances are the whole world would be bored.

Ill shift my place and something like tour and traveling..but even then i miss Internet..hard to digest a situation without internet..

I'd have to live off of my savings since 100% of my income is generated online. Maybe I'd have to get a real job!

I guess I'd be forced to only have sex non-stop for 2 years straight?

Oh, and eat chocolate.

And maybe... sleep too.

In all serious though, I would try to get into real esate on a bigger level or even precious metal as a broker.

Martial arts is my passion, so life without tons of money and the internet, and just being able to teach and do what I love isn't so bad.

My uncle taught me very young to have not only a A plan, but also, a B, a C, D, or as many as you can come up with.

The reality is an industry can die or be born over night, if your adaptable and keep moving your less likely to get burned.

I think I would start reading books again.

Get lots more sleep that for sure........

i would smile and have fun!

I would go and preach I would know my time of sabatacle is over.

Nothing I love more than seeing the power of God so that would be awesome
you asked I answered:p
Cheers
-Will