You Know You're An Internet Marketer When...

[Mike Williams]

You go to return a book to the bookstore, get your money back and are outraged that you can't keep the product!

You know you're an internet marketer when it takes you twenty minutes to explain to people what you do for a living and they still don't quite get it.

Your turn.

[jjpmarketing]

When you wake up every morning... and never get that panicked... "Oh ****! I'm late for work again!"

OR

You never know what friggin' day it is without looking at the calendar on your computer. Not having M-F 9-5 schedule has this effect on you.

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When you no longer watch superbowl commercials just for their humorous value. You sit there and ponder... "How can I apply this to my website and increase my sales?"

[Andyhenry]

You think that your next ebook just needs to get promoted by one person with a big list and you'll become instantly successful forever....

[Allen Graves]

When you wake up in the middle of the night and you just HAVE to check your email on the way to the bathroom.

[jjpmarketing]

Or much worse...

You get blown away by how much money someone made off of a product that was really crappy... so you get it in your head that you can make one way better... and make twice as much money.

[AndrewCavanagh]

When David Cavanagh Skypes you and calls you a dickhead.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

P.S. I bet he's polite to everyone else.

[Alex Sol]

Lol, I love this thread!


When the first thing you do in the morning is checking your Clickbank account, and saying out loud:
"That's it?"

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

... You watch videos on backlinks for entertainment.

Michael

[Andyhenry]

You still haven't quit your job but you're spending more time on the company computer browsing the warrior forum than doing it.

[jjpmarketing]

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

You still haven't quit your job but you're spending more time on the company computer browsing the warrior forum than doing it.

LMAO. Yep. Exactly what happened to me while encrypting Eon's laptop hard drives. A lot of waiting... so I figured why not... check out the warrior forum.

[BeeJay]

A. You have the warrior forum bookmarked as your home page.

B. When you realize you spend more time watching YouTube vids on conversion tracking than clips with people injuring themselves.

C. When you ask the guy standing at your door trying to pitch the latest Foxtel package for his name and email...because you have something he might be interested in if he likes sales.

D. When you go to pay for petrol with PayPal (can't do that here yet...i promise).

E. When you can extract the nuggets from a 150 page ebook in 2.7 minutes.

F. When your inbox is full of emails with headings like 'Ben, your free gift today' or 'Ben, have you grabbed this software yet?' or 'Ben, this is one product you can't do without'.

G. When you see more of Steven Wagenheim than your own wife.

[Michael Mason]

-When you check your email before you even eat breakfast or put on your glasses in the morning.

-When you make websites about all the hobbies you have

-When you can easily recall your Google rankings for each website, but have trouble remembering your wife's birthday

[Michael Lee]

...You're earning much more income doing IM in your spare time than your 8 hour day job (if you haven't quit yet, what are you waiting for?)

...Your wife is jealous of your computer because you're spending more time on it than her.

Michael

[David Raybould]

You know you're an internet marketer when family members take you aside one day and ask if you're secretly dealing drugs on the side...

Yes it happened, and for the record, no I'm not!

Or, you know yr an internet marketer when you call getting out of bed before 930 and "early" morning

Great thread these are really making me smile...

[Monetize]

... you eat all your meals at your computer

[jhongren]

...when you can really make money while you sleep.

...when you are earning more money in 1 day compared to your 1 month salary *hehehe

...when you share with your friends about you made money online and they think you must be joking.

[Paul_Short]

When you spend so much time in front of the computer the radiation from your monitor has burned the warriorforum template in your face and you don't even realize it.

When you go to a real world store and start looking for the WSO section.

When you go to a nightclub where there are at least 100 hot women and think to yourself "If I could just get a 1% conversion rate..."

OR

"Baby, I have an OTO you just CAN'T refuse and if you turn me down you'll NEVER have this opportunity again!"

When your cat starts gnawing on your big toe because you spend so much time in front of the computer you haven't fed her in days.

You have an exotic parrot that's learned to talk and it keeps repeating "The money is in the list" over and over again.

Your baby's first word is "Cha-Ching!"

Paul

[Takuya Hikichi]

How about this one? When your right index finger gets sore from scrolling up and down screen using your mouse. I think my finger is losing its ridges.

[Tuzic]

Hi,

when your away from your computer you have you have withdrawal symptoms & feel lost.

[Nightengale]

Originally Posted by Paul_Short

You have an exotic parrot that's learned to talk and it keeps repeating "The money is in the list" over and over again.

Paul

HILARIOUS! I love this!

And for the record, I can identify with more than a few of these. Ahem...

Michelle

[oneplusone]

You Know You're An Internet Marketer When...you make money while you are sleeping.

[Frank Murphy]

Get up everyday from bed feeling happy and excited.

[greenovni]

When you think that using the subject line "Bad News..." was a stroke of genius.

When you click yes to 1,000 hot women on a dating site because your face converts in the low digits... (Hey, you only need a .01 convertion)

When you market "Fat Loss 4 idiots" to the girls that did not convert on the dating site. (Because you think to yourself that you have their email addresses anyway, might as well use them!!)

When you offer "Bonuses" that are worth WAY more than the affiliate product you are selling.

When the bonuses you add to the offer are PLR crap! Since they have no quality you make it up in quantity . . . "Buy this 7.95 e-book and receive 1,754,238,011 bonuses you can't live without!!!"

When you still sell Water4Gas even if you know that the product is pure BS . . . but hey! It converts well.

When your "light reading" consists of internet marketing e-books.

When your favorite shows are "traffic videos" on you tube.

When You Write Everything Like This

When you find girls who do internet marketing "HOT"

Last but not least . . . .

When your website still says " This offer is only good for the next 32-22-11-10-9-8-5-3- 1 BUYER Since 1999

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Originally Posted by misako

Get up everyday from bed feeling happy and excited.

misako,

No fair! That was both cute and true.



Michael

[Simplweb]

Originally Posted by Paul_Short

When you go to a nightclub where there are at least 100 hot women and think to yourself "If I could just get a 1% conversion rate..."

lol... best yet

[jcoolbaugh]

Originally Posted by clawson44

When you have to believe that you are actually jobless.

Or better still when all the banks refuse to believe you have a "real" job.



Okay... you might be an internet marketer if...

All of your conversations include more letter combinations than actual words:

PHP
ASP
HTML
FF
IM
WSO...

[preets]

Originally Posted by greenovni

When your website still says " This offer is only good for the next 32-22-11-10-9-8-5-3- 1 BUYER Since 1999

Very well said.
For me Internet marketer means
-when i got huge credit card bill for google adword.
-when ever i logon to my paypal account and found my balance $1.95
-when my family scold me for wasting a lot of time in front of my laptop.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

... When the only thing dating means to you is a niche.

Michael

[Scott Ames]

You Know You're An Internet Marketer When...

Your children recognize Mike Filsaime and Frank Kern more quickly than Hanna Montana or the Jonas Brothers.

[Sandor Verebi]

When you need to wait for a month to get your affiliate commissions.

[jjpmarketing]

Originally Posted by Simplweb

lol... best yet

Better yet... take a hot chick with you and have her work as your affiliate marketer. Improves on that 1% conversion rate. Maybe you'll up that to 2% or 3%.

[jcoolbaugh]

Originally Posted by Scott Ames

You Know You're An Internet Marketer When...

Your children recognize Mike Filsaime and Frank Kern more quickly than Hanna Montana or the Jonas Brothers.

LOL!

You owe me a new keyboard for that one, Scott - I just sprayed this one with coffee

My three year old is always here "helping" his mum on the computer, and has gotten to the point where he can name each of the marketers as I bring up their latest videos.

He's an especial fan of J-Mo... go figure
("Look mummy... it's Jason!" lol)

[GailTrahd]

- when the suggested motivational reading material for the children at home are from Frank Kern, Mitch Meyerson, T. Harv Eker.

- working online has become more fun than work

- when laughing outloud at the computer screen doesn't even generate a "what's so funny mom?" anymore

- you spend more time picking out the specifications of your new laptop than considering the purchase of a new vehicle.

- you are loath to get up to take the dog out because Frank is playing the lap guitar.

[GailTrahd]

Originally Posted by p4t

Now let me just ask:
WHO IS AN INTERNET MARKETER???

After all of these replies that describe an Internet Marketer - ME! ME! I wanna be an Internet Marketer!

[jjpmarketing]

When you reminisce about old sales jobs that pre-dated your IM skillz, and that you didn't make that much money at... and think if I had known then, what I know now... I would have made bank at that job.

[Scott Ames]

Originally Posted by jcoolbaugh

LOL!

You owe me a new keyboard for that one, Scott - I just sprayed this one with coffee

My three year old is always here "helping" his mum on the computer, and has gotten to the point where he can name each of the marketers as I bring up their latest videos.

He's an especial fan of J-Mo... go figure
("Look mummy... it's Jason!" lol)

Too funny! The little ones do mimic and learn from everything we do. I wonder if J-Mo has any idea that he has 3 year old fans.

[grumpyjacksa]

when u wake up at 4 AM, suddenly wide awake, realising what you were trying to figure out 6 hours ago.

[jcoolbaugh]

Originally Posted by Scott Ames

Too funny! The little ones do mimic and learn from everything we do. I wonder if J-Mo has any idea that he has 3 year old fans.

Lol, don't know... but I could always make a YouTube video of the little man in his sombrero and sarape, doing his best Moffat impression

Oh wait... think that'd be too much piggybacking for Jason?
(I didn't mean it, Jason... really!)

Hey! There's another one!

You might be an internet marketer if... people give you (an adult) funny looks when you tell them you make money piggybacking

[woah316]

when warriro forum is your homepage

[peteinoz]

You still make the same income when your on holidays

[jjpmarketing]

Better yet... when it doesn't have to be your homepage... because it never drops out of Internet Explorer or Firefox "Recently Visited Sites Dropdown"... no matter how many sites you visit in a day.

[melanied]

You know you're an internet marketer when...

- well, when the jokes in this thread made sense to you
- when you laughed at them and had the urge to turn around and tell someone else, and then realized no one else you know would get it (luckily not a problem for me, my mom's an internet marketer, too! )
- when you are going to be blogging about this thread (oh, yes, i will be! )
- when your friends tell you how "lucky" you are "not to have to work" and think you're being petty when you try to explain that it wasn't luck and it *is* work
- when you think about all the things you "wanted to be when you grew up" as a kid, and nothing even comes close to holding a candle to how amazing your life is now

[Jeremy Gatica]

when your 16 month old son watches you on the WF because of the contrast of colors.

the same son gets excited when you print a pdf.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

... When terms like killer, assassin, massacre, slayer, nemesis, snatch, on crack, sneaky, dirty secret, leech, lazy, cheat, and thief don't mean the bad guys or dirty rotten scoundrels, but instead respectable systems of making money using a large search-engine company.

Michael

[melanied]

Some more -

- When you actually scream out loud when MyBlogLog shows you that Liz Tomey visited your blog.
- It boggles your mind to think that the population at large has NO IDEA why Google returns the results it does in the order they appear, and you find it difficult to remember when you were part of that population.
- When you only really *need* to work 3 or 4 hours a day, but you spend 4 or 5 more reading and studying because you’re obsessed!

[jjpmarketing]

Just 4 or 5 more? LIGHTWEIGHT.

[naruq]

when I check my e-mail and it says orderform submission.

[Ross Dalangin]

..when you're always on the look out of what's new in the WSO section

[Jakehyten]

Originally Posted by TOPGUN08

When you have dreams about latent semantic indexing and article marketing (dont ask)

hahaha! I seriously had a nightmare about google indexing my sites!

[Kim Standerline]

Originally Posted by grumpyjacksa

when u wake up at 4 AM, suddenly wide awake, realising what you were trying to figure out 6 hours ago.

Yup

And when you wake up with a brilliant new idea, get in the shower have brekky then for the life of you, you can't remember what it was.

Seriously believe it or not I've woke up with several really good ideas, I used to skype my ex biz partner with the words "I've had a dream" (probably why he's now an ex biz partner lol)

Kim