good question. Honestly besides buying some domains, I'd probably abuse a bit of PPC back then to fund more stuff. Damn it would have been nice for things to be so easy like it was back then.

Psh. If I have a working time machine I'm sure not using it on Internet Marketing. Time to go get a pet dinosaur and kill Hitler!

Funnily enough I was just starting to make a go of it on the Internet in 2002 when I dropped out for 5 years.

In hindsight, I should have kept my foot in the door and kept up with the progress and what I also would do with that hindsight would be to renew the domains that I let go and buy a whole lot more. I would also have completed the products that I was putting together and got them on sale via affiliates.

Another thing would be to use text links and not the Amazon banners - they converted as badly back then as they do now

There would be alot of things that i would do,i first started by creating a website and doing keyword stuffing and getting it ranked first place for every term,and then i would have a good blog with a bunch of visitors,there are alot of things different now

I agree with the keyword stuffing and page ranking. The Search Engines were just babies and would have been easy to manipulate know today's SEO.
I have also let a few domains lapse in the past that I regret now

Would register some great premium domain names, that's for sure.

Domains like Youtube.com ...

If i had a time machine i would go back to the garden of eden and f?$k Eve

@bertosio just...no.

You're missing the point (you're only going back to 2002) and that's offensive!

I was only having a laugh. My sincere apologies if i offended anybody.

Serious answer

I have actualy been marketing online since probably about 1999 and i would have done a whole lot differently.

For starters i would have been more organised. Its ridiculous the amount of sites i started just to let them slip away into the distance. I also started some unique sites which i let slip away which are no big money makers for other people.

Every single one of the 100s of portal domains I had built....

I'd have added an optin to (all together now!)

BUILD MY LIST!!

The fact I didn't back then...it's a source of agonizing woe to me.

If I could go back to 2002, obviously I would have 20/20 hind-site, and know that YouTube would be started in 2005, so register the domain and sell it to them in 2005. Or I could start YouTube myself, and reap millions! ... Something like that.

It's a fantasy game, don't take it too seriously. Don't want to go into all that "space-time continuum", "Back to the Future" stuff ...

Happy Holidays!