Demographics of IM. How old is the average Internet Marketer

by Mike Anthony

Posted: 14 years ago 30 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Been wondering something because I am encountering a HIGH level of immaturity in IMers
(not all). How old is the average Internet marketer or person that wants to be? How many are married? Have their own family? Kids? Ever run any business?

I'm sure age really doesn't nail it but its a place for me to stat looking at stats that might help me . I don't think I have encountered as high a percentage of people that want to run a business by pushing a few buttons as I have anywhere. Most business people I have met before are very pragmatic. They accept realities of business not try to pretend they aren't there.

Is there anywhere I can look up that kind of info? I don't know that I will ever be able to wrap my head aroung that mentality and wonder if theres a more mature segment to be working with? Thanks

#average #demographics #internet #marketer

GSX Enterprises 14 years ago

I don't think there's going to be a collection of this data, maybe on this upcoming Census there will be a "Internet Marketing" category. I'd say that it varies but mid 30's would be my guess for average age if I had to pinpoint one.

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Slin 14 years ago

I'm 19 and started when I was 17 with 2 other marketers of the same age.

I don't know the average age though.
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Alex Williams 14 years ago

I am not sure if there`s such data collected... I think the average is no more than 25 years old. And I think only older huys, like 35 years and more, are making IM as a business. Just my opinion.
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ContentArticleWriter 14 years ago

I think this is going to be a tough one to pinpoint. I recently read in another forum, that there are more and more teens joining the internet marketing frenzy. Truth is, age has nothing to do with maturity and professionalism. SURE, time spent studying different trends, and doing business gives older, IMers an upper hand. At the same time, I think the internet lends itself for more scammers and dishonest people, and I think that as time progresses we will see the FTC taking more and auditing internet businesses and entrepreneurs who have ventured to doing business online. Therefore, although I do agree that there are a lot of immature people doing internet marketing, I can not assume it has to do with age.
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- Mike Anthony 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ContentArticleWriter
  
  Truth is, age has nothing to do with maturity and professionalism.
  
  I'm going to disagree with that somewhat. You CAN have some very mature teenagers but for most of us there are some moments in our life that take us to another level.
  
  Getting married is a maturing experience and in our (western) culture you don't do that at 12.
  
  Having your first child can be a big maturing moment. Graduating, living on your own. These are all age related experiences that mature us.
  
  I'm not saying that Age is the sole determining factor and God knows there are people who go through all those experiences and still don't grow up. I'm just saying that if I walk out to my park and pull a teenagers off the court more of them will not be ready to run a real business than will.
  
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  digidoodles 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Mike Anthony
  
  I'm not saying that Age is the sole determining factor and God knows there are people who go through all those experiences and still don't grow up.
  
  And most of them are men...
  
  (Oops.. did I just say that?
  
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alextsui

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

I don't think I have encountered as high a percentage of people that want to run a business by pushing a few buttons as I have anywhere. Most business people I have met before are very pragmatic. They accept realities of business not try to pretend they aren't there.

Hi Mike,

I think the reason for this widespread "push-button-start-a-business" mentality among internet marketers is that a lot of the IM systems and blueprints (even from well-known gurus) promote precisely this kind of thinking.

How many sales letters have you read that starts off with "Make $10,000 In Just 4 Days With No Money And No Experience! Just Follow Our Step-By-Step Magic Push-Button System." ?

They don't talk about the realities and problems that a business usually go through before turning profitable.

Alex

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enterprice 14 years ago

As I can see - there are many young guys in IM business (at least by their pictures on e-books with "brilliant" IM ideas).
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Imran Naseem Banned 14 years ago

Age is nothing but a number when it comes to IM.
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williamrs 14 years ago

I don't know the average age, but I'm 18. My first experience with internet markting occurred when I was 15. Nowadays, I earn a full time income online.

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toolsmith 14 years ago

I can say this, I wish I had started when I was 18
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- eshera 14 years ago
  
  Me too, but that would have been 1989, not sure how much money I could have made...
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  (cripes! this is my 100th post, kind of ironic!)
  
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- ajaxmike 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by toolsmith
  
  I can say this, I wish I had started when I was 18
  
  Hmmm, that would have been 1975. No internet, no PC, punch cards.....
  
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hippoxx 14 years ago

Had my first brush in my early thirties and walked away after a couple of months. Now 45 been marketing for three months and making some money already.

I think it's just a case of unrealistic expectations that causes most to fail and the open mindedness of youth that brings so many young people in.
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Dalun 14 years ago

20 years old here and starting to get the money rolling in. i already found a system that is bringing me results above expectations.
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Daniel Brock 14 years ago

Mike, the general demograph for the IM crowd is between 18-55, with more focus on those in the 30-45 range.

This push button mentality your are speaking about is from the crazy marketing of the gurus in the IM niche.

MOST IM products are marketed as:

Magic bullet
Copy and profit
Push buttons and do nothing

In reality, none of that stuff really exists in this day in age.

Sure, there are easy ways to make money online. However, ALL of them require work.

As for the most mature sector of the IM market, warrior forum is where you will find the most mature users.

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- Mike Anthony 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Daniel Brock
  
  As for the most mature sector of the IM market, warrior forum is where you will find the most mature users.
  
  thats what I was afraid of. Yes there are some very mature marketers And some of them are quite young but sometimes......It just seems the unrealistic people outweigh the mature ones at least 4 to 1
  
  and just to clarify when I say mature I'm not talking age now
  
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Emily Meeks 14 years ago

I'm 20, but really wish I'd started at 18 > I worked my ass off my senior year of high school, I can only imagine what would be had I put all that energy toward my marketing business...
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digidoodles 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

I don't know that I will ever be able to wrap my head aroung that mentality and wonder if theres a more mature segment to be working with? Thanks

Well if you eliminate one gender, you're headed in the right direction

ALL IN FUN! ALL IN FUN PEOPLE!

I love all the husbands I've had (and killed..)

HA HA HA!

Warmly,

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mikefort 14 years ago

I thought that the average age was getting older and that the "Silver Surfers" were starting to call the shots?
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mobiusman 14 years ago

According to niteco.com

The Average Internet User is 28.0024 Years Old !
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- Jenny Willapana 14 years ago
  
  Brandi, you're killing me...nice!
  
  The average age doesn't matter. I think people from 18 to 80 are making it work. It's the best "job" in the world!
  
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  JohnTheJock 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Jenny Willapana
  
  Brandi, you're killing me...nice!
  
  The average age doesn't matter. I think people from 18 to 80 are making it work. It's the best "job" in the world!
  
  Spot on Jenny.
  
  I started at age 57 and still going strong now at 64.
  
  Silver surfers rock
  
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JennSpencerIM 14 years ago

If you're looking for ideas on a product to market to a specific age group then I'd just focus on one set of people. If you think the younger crowd is too immature and not focused then don't create a product that would entice them or use younger language in marketing. I think the way you position your product and how you are advertising is going to have big effects on the customers you'll receive. For example, for Facebook advertising you can choose age groups and married status, etc. Otherwise, you can use photos on your page of people in that target age group or use more mature language and speak to that stage of life specifically to one group of people in the IM niche.
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Mike Anthony

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Traffic-Bug

might give you some idea of the demographic of Internet Marketers. From what I can say, Internet marketing crowd is a younger crowd trying to sell to senior crowds.

In the make money online component of IM I would think that its the young crowd trying to sell to the young crowd. Once you've been around a few years you tend not to believe the hype. You can make things easier but $10,000 in 10 days. Seen that promise broken too many times

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Graham Maddison 10 years ago

Why didn't you use the poll feature when opening this thread? With up to 10 questions to be asked, I am sure you would get close to the correct data you wanted.
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Matthew Trujillo 10 years ago

How old is the average internet marketer?

Let me google that for you
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UW 10 years ago

I am currently 18 but I started when I was 15 just messing around with making sites. I got serious the last year or so and I now own my own business. My business is in the forex niche as I want to study finance in college. I help people get better at trading with a membership site which brings me in a good amount of money each month, definitely more than a high schooler knows what to do with!
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mbacak 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

Is there anywhere I can look up that kind of info?

If you have buyers in the market, you can profile
them and get the demographics. I think you'll be
surprised in what you find... because it will probably
be radically different from what you'd think.
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