When Your Business Depends on the Internet
January 9, 2008 by Kristen King
Filed under Business
Note: This was supposed to go up yesterday, but the connectivity problems I mentioned prevented me from posting it. Apologies!
Over the last 2 days, I’ve had serious Internet problems, which kept me from posting, from staying in contact with people I’d promised to reach, and from working on the projects that are sitting on my desk. Translation: When my ISP goes down, so does my business. And the thing is, I’m not even selling anything online — I just use the Internet constantly for contacting clients, researching projects, verifying critical information, and marketing myself. Not to mention all of my blogging.
Like I said, my business isn’t even an e-commerce business, but I’m debilitated when I can’t get on the Web. I can get most of the work done, but I can’t finalize it, and I sure can’t turn it in. How would your operations be affected if you completely lost Internet and Intranet access?
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My husband and I use to have an ebay based business selling CE overseas. I was the customer service go-to for all our operations and when you are getting 250+ e-mails a day, then you get pretty hurt when the internet goes down. You get double the e-mails from people then asking, why you aren’t responding to them, etc…. You can’t check to see who you need to ship to, etc…. So- we finally based everything off laptops and wireless cards so that we could go anywhere, if a “network” was down. Not fun having to be so dependent on the internet! But you get by- and it never lasts for too long:)
Now that it is all just blogging – it is much easier and less demanding.