You know you're an Internet marketer, when...

...you have to help your 11-year old son to write an essay about Abraham Lincoln for school and it ends up sounding like a sales-letter selling Abraham Lincoln.

...when you move out of your house you post a WSO to get rid of your old couch you don't want to take with you.

...you give Google AdWord-coupons as a gift to your wife at Christmas.

...you are disappointed every time you buy at Walmart that you don't get a free bonus together with your purchase.

...you're best friend is asking you to help him finding a buyer for his old PC, you ask him for the affiliate link.

...instead of using Google you use the Google Keyword Research tool.

...you try to put AdSense on your Facebook-page.

...your friends have forbidden you from emailing them because you include affiliate links in your personals emails.

...you know more names of famous Internet marketers than politicians.

...you would rather spend money on good advertising than a great holiday with your family.

...you feel like people are stupid every time someone asks what you're doing for a living.

...you speak to your friends so that your sentences contain a high keyword-density for your main niche.

...every time someone says to you "I'm interested in xxx" you answer by "Well, this isn't a profitable niche."

...your wife is mad at you because every time you come up with a new idea for a product you instantly register ten domain-names.

...you plan your holiday like a product launch.

...you treat your friends like your email-list.

...you ask everybody you meet for their first name and email address.

...you value people by the size of their list.

...your wife gets angry at you for not helping around the house you just reply "Honey, just try to outsource it."

...you always look for a hidden membership-program every time a friend offers you help for free.


Feel free to add more!

Nice list! I can relate on so many different levels.

Very funny!

Nice addition!!

...when you look in your kitchen cabinet to find niche ideas.

...nobody believes you when you tell them how you make money.

.. if you take your laptop to the bathroom instead of a newspaper

... when the word "viral" is used in the offline world, you automatically think "viral marketing" rather than sickness as the person meant.

...can't watch TV without commenting on the commercials and seeing how you could do better.

when you always consider everyday stuff, as a possible niche.lol

...you hang out in forums all day long.