If Google, Facebook, Youtube, & Twitter Closed Shop . . .

by Tom Addams

Posted: 10 years ago 24 replies

OFF TOPIC

In light of the - sky is falling - Fiverr thread, it got me thinking:

What would you do if Google, Facebook, Youtube, & Twitter Closed Shop . . ?

Many of us, of course, use far more ways to generate traffic - media buys, groups, classifieds, offline, lists, forums, and so forth - but a vast percentage rely on these traffic channels, and even for those of us who don't, it will likely still impact our business and cause us to make changes.

Would this affect your business? If so, what would be your reaction?

And before some clever so-and-so intones . . . no, I don't believe the closure of the aforementioned is imminent.

Fire away!!

#closed #facebook #google #shop #twitter #youtube

Tom Addams 10 years ago

Not exactly the erudite response I was hoping to garner..

Anyway...

Enough from me now.

Fire away, chaps and chapettes!
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- johnbjr 10 years ago
  
  I would still have my list. Keep your list happy.
  
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  AffiliateWaves 10 years ago
  
  Good List and Quality content will be always there .if you are honest to your customers, they will never leave you .
  
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  brentb 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by johnbjr
  
  I would still have my list. Keep your list happy.
  
  Well you would have just lost half of it as gmail is owned by Google. So that would suck for all us emailers. Just saying.
  
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Ttrain 10 years ago

I would celebrate and than spend the next 36 hours chugging red bulls and popping Modafinil as I built a replacement.
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@tjr 10 years ago

I guess I'd have less reason to slack off. But in reality, something would take their place in this scenario.

People want social media. People want to search. People want to watch videos of cats and epic trick shots.

Heck, maybe the play is to create their replacement.
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jasondinner 10 years ago

Wouldn't put a dent in my business...
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NeedBucksNow 10 years ago

That would kind of suck wouldn't it? Where would I spend all my time online besides here?
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johnben1444 10 years ago

If they ever close future billionaires will emerge.

I don't think this is something to worry about and if you are prepared for it like i am you could be one of them/us.
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Tom Addams

10 years ago

I like where this is heading.

So, okay . . . we lose G, FB, YT, T.

Assuming you have the startup capital . . .

What do you build?

I'm thinking: All 4 in one.

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Egyfitness 10 years ago

I will start optimizing my site for Bing search.
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butters

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Get Rich Methods

I like where this is heading.

So, okay . . . we lose G, FB, YT, T.

Assuming you have the startup capital . . .

What do you build?

I'm thinking: All 4 in one.

Google all the way, social trends come and go, peoples need for information is infinite (Until we get some cyborg stuff which downloads it all into our brains!!). So if Google dies (Assuming other search engines go bankrupt to) start investing in the information business, someone is going to need to serve it to the world.

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salegurus 10 years ago

You must have a lot of time on your hands.....
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Trivum 10 years ago

I'd simply go with the guys who drove them out of business.
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cyberzolo 10 years ago

I can't ever see them closing shop, not saying that it is impossible but it is just highly unlikely.
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Tom Addams 10 years ago

I wonder, being marketers, if the thing we created next . . . would be more helpful or less helpful to marketers.
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- @tjr 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Get Rich Methods
  
  I wonder, being marketers, if the thing we created next . . . would be more helpful or less helpful to marketers.
  
  Doubtful that it would be more helpful for the same reason none of those entities are tailored to small time marketers now. Internet Marketers aren't making them money worth sniffing at. Their consumer base is.
  
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Barry Unruh 10 years ago

I'd go jump in my survival truck, hook up the trailer loaded with survival gear, and head for my survival cabin hidden in the mountains...

Because I'd have to assume that a major world disaster just struck and I'd be safest to wait out the carnage...

But on the really offhanded chance that all happened simultaneously, and left us zero transition time...

I'd drive faster....
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xflavor 10 years ago

It is true that there are many other ways for generating traffic rather than Google, Facebook, Youtube. But, these are the best way to generate traffic. A huge number of people are using Google, Facebook, Youtube. So if they closed, it won’t be possible to get traffic easily.
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seasoned

10 years ago

Google is, functionally, only a SHADOW of what it once was!
I was only TRICKED into getting a facebook account. It is DORMANT and never had anything added!
I NEVER had a twitter account!
OK, I WOULD miss youtube.

Frankly, until the ads and stock, I figured youtube would be a GONER! I HAVE said the same about the others, but youtube was the one I felt strongest about, because it is SUCH high bandwidth.

Steve

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Tom Addams

10 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

Frankly, until the ads and stock, I figured youtube would be a GONER! I HAVE said the same about the others, but youtube was the one I felt strongest about, because it is SUCH high bandwidth.

Steve

Things were certainly dodgy for them a few years back. This was before they cleverly introduced good monetization strategies.

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Rod Cortez 10 years ago

What would you do if Google, Facebook, Youtube, & Twitter Closed Shop . . ?

Since all of them account for less than 2% of my traffic, I would just keep doing what I'm doing. It wouldn't be hard to replace that 2% either.

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- Steven Wagenheim 10 years ago
  
  For business I wouldn't miss them at all. For other things?
  
  Facebook - Would miss communicating with my Magic The Gathering playgroup
  
  YouTube - Would miss listening to all that great music
  
  Google - I really like their search engine. Hate all the others.
  
  Otherwise, couldn't care less.
  
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mkgg 10 years ago

Twitter and Facebook maybe....they could get replaced like what happened to myspace

But no way are Google and YT going anywhere...uh-huh i'll die an old man and they will still exist
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