A few days ago I watched a piece on good morning America where they took away a blackberry, cell phone and email from the managing editor of Forbes. After a couple days he was crying like a baby. I have included the video below for your viewing pleasure.
A day after watching this video and laughing at this poor guy my personal email address from my ISP
stopped working. I called my Internet Company
and they informed me that it would take up to 72 hours to have it fixed. It has only been 48 hours since it went down
and I am taking it harder then expected. This is the account that I use for
anything and everything not related to work. This includes emails with friends, newsgroups, newsletters, online
banking, etc. I was also told that
anything sent in the 72-hour period will not be received and cannot be
recovered. Not having this email
address up and running is making me feel on edge and worried. I realize that this is not the end of the
world. However, I am surprised that it
affected me the way that it is.
Between my email going down and watching the Forbes editor weep I started pondering about how much we rely on technology. It got me thinking about ways to integrate offline marketing into affiliate marketing. In my next blog entry I will address some of these ideas.
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