You Know You Are An Internet Marketer When…

When you can’t think of anything else to write about, a list of something usually helps you through a writers block.

Here’s my list.

You Know You Are An Internet Marketing When…

  1. You buy any product offline or online outside of the internet marketing arena and develop a nervous twitch when you are not presented with an upsell, downsell or one time offer.
  2. You see the words free report, and you instantly think “how much is the OTO going to be”
  3. You are confident that you can buy any product you want at 2am in the morning
  4. Every sales page you read has apparently been written the same day
  5. You expenses to earnings ratio is 10,000:1
  6. You have at least 73 unfinished projects
  7. 90% of your hard drive is filled with ebooks and courses that you have never read
  8. You find yourself constantly explaining to your friends and family what an ebook is
  9. You’ve advised your real world boss to change all the product prices to end in 7, but you are not sure why
  10. You can read a 15 page sales letter in 19.4 seconds and make up your mind whether you are going to buy the product
  11. You’ve had to hide the credit card bill from your significant other
  12. You know you have all the qualities and information to succeed, but haven’t taken action yet
  13. You feel slightly guilty about buying that $997 home study course given that the 5 others that you have ordered are sitting in tha garage. Unopened.
  14. Armand Morin has invited you to a conference
  15. You can reel off a list as long as your arm of names of great internet marketers, but you struggle to remember the name of your mother in law
  16. You know PayPals TOS backwards, forwards and damn near sideways!
  17. No one understands “what you do” on the internet and most assume it’s something to do with porn
  18. The only emails you ever receive are also being sent to 29,000 other people
  19. You did your first email campaign and a school boy error caused the ‘name’ token to not work properly, so everyone got an email that said “Hi %firstname%”
  20. You bought a product based on the promised rebate of the affiliate after 3 months and completely forgot to redeem it
  21. You’ve written a ’scam’ review to try and promote it
  22. You lost your shirt on AdWords but it wasn’t a total failure because as soon as you make another $99.28 in clickbank, you’ll get your first cheque
  23. You want to be like Joel Comm and be an AdSense God
  24. You also want to be like Mike Filsaime and be a Viral Marketing God
  25. You also want to be like Andrew Fox and be a Clickbank God
  26. You also want to be like Gary Ambrose and be a Email Marketing God
  27. You also want to be like Micheal Fortin and be a Copywriting God
  28. You also want to be like Brad Fallon and be a SEO God
  29. You also want to be like Ewan Chia and be an Affiliate God
  30. You also want to be like Edmond Loh and be a PLR God
  31. You also want to be like Russell Brunson because, well, he’s younger than you
  32. You don’t want to be like Armand Morin because he’s just too cheesy for words
  33. You have tried to see if you can get away with submitting PLR articles to EzineArticles
  34. You think PageRank is how your websites are ranked in the search engines
  35. You can think of a dozen more things to add to this list

That’s my attempt, there are probably hundreds more, so submit your suggestions as a comment!

Niche Growth Markets During Recession

A while back I spoke about whether internet marketing will see a growth over the coming months. According to Google Trends, so far the answer is no.

But, what about in niche markets? With the slow down in the US economy, petrol (gas) prices hitting an all time high, it opens the road for the savvy internet marketer with the time and resources to start making some products that really solve the need of not just the internet marketing arena, but possibly 80% of the population of the US.

Off the top of my head I came up with the following…