Entrepreneur Or Internet Marketer?

12 years ago

I like the sound of "entrepreneur" better as it gives a sense of ingenuity or invention while "Internet Marketer" could very well involve doing what many others do.

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AlmightyGreg

12 years ago

Originally Posted by dvduval

I like the sound of "entrepreneur" better as it gives a sense of ingenuity or invention while "Internet Marketer" could very well involve doing what many others do.

I personally feel the same way. Marketer feels more like you are merely doing what everyone else is doing, not that this is necessarily true, but i do think there is a difference between IM and Online Entrepreneurs

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Dr Boom

12 years ago

I think if you are creating a product, then you are an Entrepreneur.

If you are merely promoting someone else's product then you are an IM.

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alksense

12 years ago

To me; an internet marketer is someone who is out to make a quick buck and an entrepreneur is someone who builds a sustainable business. Of course, you can be both.

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mrelk159

12 years ago

Honestly I consider those two almost the same, but if you want to get technical then I guess what Dr Boom said hits the nail on the head.

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benzwm02

12 years ago

an internet marketer is just someone who uses the internet to market their business. It just so happens many internet marketers market how to internet market.

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Dmarcotte

12 years ago

I definitely prefer Entrepreneur - I just never spell it right

I spend a lot of time creating my own product and there is of course some marketing involved, but I am building a business for the long term - not out to make a quick buck as many IM seem to be. (not all of them of course)

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Confined To Life

12 years ago

I agree that an the difference should be that the entrepreneur builds his own product and makes a business of it. The IM (although not exclusively, but just for this example) is an affiliate.

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agmccall 12 years ago

I am a business person. What difference does it make what we call each other.
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- AlmightyGreg 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by agmccall
  
  I am a business person. What difference does it make what we call each other.
  
  well... you don't call a janitor an environmental engineer do you?
  
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  jtchaschowy 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by greg fields
  
  well... you don't call a janitor an environmental engineer do you?
  
  Why the hell not?
  
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  agmccall 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by greg fields
  
  well... you don't call a janitor an environmental engineer do you?
  
  No, I usually can him/her by their name
  
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Danny Cutts

12 years ago

I am an entrepreneur because I make money off my own hard work.

I am an entrepreneur that uses internet marketing

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emini_guy

12 years ago

I consider myself a web entrepreneur. I am just not good enough at marketing to honestly think of myself as a marketer, but since my online business is doing pretty well, I can safely call myself "web entrepreneur." Plus, my first web business was launched when no one even was talking about IM, so I am not very attached to this term.

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TeamBringIt

12 years ago

I vote for entrepreneur anyday! IMer is cool as well, but I prefer entrepreneur. I was always an entrepreneur and then got into Im as well....

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mrelk159 12 years ago

Originally Posted by TeamBringIt

I vote for entrepreneur anyday! IMer is cool as well, but I prefer entrepreneur. I was always an entrepreneur and then got into Im as well....

Ha yea I agree Entrepreneur just sounds more professional and in a way more empowered, I don't know why I just perfer Entrepreneur over Internet Marketer not that an IMer sounds bad but just a preference.
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Sushiman1111

12 years ago

I consider myself both, but then I have two businesses, one online and one off.

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Jonwebb

12 years ago

I really don't consider myself ether. I consider myself a small private investor. I really guess they are all the same... Just adjectives describing the same noun.

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Randall Magwood

12 years ago

Internet marketer. The bottom line is that you're not in the "web hosting", "ebook", "affiliate", or "services" business.... you're in the INTERNET MARKETING business.

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Ernie Lo

12 years ago

Internet marketing is a method that entrepreneurs do if you work for yourself.

If you do internet marketing for a boss than you're an internet marketer.

No different from a telemarketer.

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anandshaw

12 years ago

Technically if you are having your own business you are an entrepreneur. Internet marketer sounds more like a professional service provider.
so I am an entrepreneur.

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designitbuddy

12 years ago

Once you start business you are now Enterpreneur. But you have to promote it through different ways i.e. Advertising, Media, keep in touch with social sector or using Internet. So here Internet Marketing is one of the important tool of promoting your business.

So here at warrior forum we are Enterpreneur as well as internet marketer because we want to improve our business through Internet.

Hope you will like my view about your question.

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Gavin Abeyratne 12 years ago

Entrepreneur!

I don't limit myself to the internet
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- RyanWasHere 12 years ago
  
  Both are connected to each other. People who involves on this has the same interest indeed.
  
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Bill Hugall

12 years ago

I am both. You can't be a successful IMers without being an entrepreneur. To get free you need that drive to succeed, and most 9 to 5ers don't have that.

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Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago

People use words very differently, don't they?

I don't instinctively think of "entrepreneurs" as necessarily having anything to do with the internet at all. I think of it as a much broader and less specific term. I do see that some internet marketers might legitimately call themselves "entrepreneurs", too.

I think affiliates, perhaps more than other internet marketers, can be said to be "entrepreneurs"? An "entrepreneur", literally is "a taker in the middle" or "a taker in-between" (that's what the "entre" part means - which to me sounds pretty much like an affiliate: i.e. not the vendor or the customer, but the "taker in the middle"?). But these days, especially the adjective "entrepreneurial" is a lot more loosely used, as well.
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- ExRat 12 years ago
  
  Hi greg fields,
  
  Entrepreneur or Internet Marketer?
  
  Internet entrepreneur - just to be different :rolleyes:
  
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  Kay King 12 years ago
  
  If you are applying for a loan I wouldn't advise using "entrepreneur". That title on a loan app is viewed the same as "broke" or "unemployed" by lenders. As a career path, unless your name is known... an entrepreneur gets no respect in the financial world.
  
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Hessein

12 years ago

i think entrepreneur is the general description of our mindset but internet marketer is the most specific term to describe our business, if you met someone and he asked you what do you do if you answered i am an entrepreneur he will think "oh that's the polite term for unemployed" but if you said i am internet marketer the idea of the websites and making money online will popup into his head
Steve Jobs (RIP) is an entrepreneur but he is not internet marketer, you don't see him sell his apps on apple store

am i right?

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JeremiahSay

12 years ago

When I tell someone I'm an internet marketer.. I usually received 2 expression from people:

1) Jaw dropping face
2) or a BIG-EYE face (with a loud "WHAT" 2 seconds later)

I'm sick and tired of explaining the definition of internet marketer. Now i'll just tell people I work from home. If they ask what I do, I act blur and change subject.

I know this is not the best way to communicate with others, but at least this method is working for me best so far.

Any suggestions people?

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rid243

12 years ago

I don't like to say Entrepreneur Or Internet Marketer when people ask me. When I say internet marketer, I feel like some closeted geek. I usually just say "business owner" lol

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shaunfm

12 years ago

Internet Marketer,an Entrepreneur is much broader and can cover more niche asset building strategies like Forex trading,stocks and Real estate investing.

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thetrafficguy2

12 years ago

I consider myself both a IMer and a enrapuner

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ExRat 12 years ago

Hi,

Originally Posted by thetrafficguy2

I consider myself both a IMer and a enrapuner

Yep, that too...
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HorseStall

12 years ago

An Entrepreneur can be an Internet Marketer but an Internet Marketer is not necessarily an Entrepreneur they can be an employee.

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kimonerz

12 years ago

Internet marketer is more solely based on the actual marketing of the product or website.
In being an internet entreprenuer, the person is more based making or creating a business.

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CoachManny

12 years ago

I have always thought of an entrepreneur as someone who owns their own business and internet marketing as an avenue that the entrepreneur would use to grow their business making him also an internet marketer but the two being different.

This thread provides some food for thought.

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TimK06

12 years ago

Ouch, tough one. Since an Entrepreneur is a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses and internet marketing also requires you to utilize these abilities as well........... I'd say just dieting is a market in the health niche Internet Marketing is form of Entrepreneurship.

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jackcarr

12 years ago

Entrepreneur = Someone that makes a difference to many peoples lives, creating a product or service.

Internet Marketer = Someone that promotes the entrepreneurs products.

The word Entrepreneur gets thrown around far too much these days IMO. People starting up T-Shirt "company's" are calling themselves entrepreneurs. Give me a break...

Now if you are doing IM and creating a product or a service such as creating a startup then you can class yourself as what ever you like.

An entrepreneur is NOT someone that simply owns their own business. Every electrition or brick layer is an entrepreneur... I think not.

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Hartwigm

12 years ago

Definitionally they are different but in practice they can obviously overlap. I call myself both.

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J50

12 years ago

I'm not big at all on titles, giving yourself clever sounding titles doesn't make money. Please, all the phrases this industry has picked up including the word "guru" just makes it sound cheesy as hell.

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spock0149

12 years ago

I consider an entrepreneur someone who generates wealth through the creation of valuable solutions to real problems.

I think that an internet marketer is more of a 'reseller' typically - selling other peoples ideas.

So, entrepreneur builds and designs the car.

The internet marketer is the salesman.

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