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You Know You Are An Internet Marketer When…

Posted by peter on June 25, 2008 |

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!