Is being a retard a profession?
What about if you just drool on yourself occasionally, would that just be a hobby?
What about if you just drool on yourself occasionally, would that just be a hobby?
Could Affiliate Marketers/Marketing Be Considered a Profession?
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He is - THE CACTUS!
This doesn't gel with me.
Entrepreneurs are people like Smaxor who actually create an entire business out of it. What the majority of us here are doing is simply being sales reps.
Some people out there have a product, we promote it, we get paid per sale of that product. It takes a bit more training an panache than working in a shop, but we do have a substantially larger customer and competitor base than a physical store. Also a larger product range to chose from and maybe specialise in.
It's not to say that End of the day though, we're sales people. And the ones that put in the extra time to learn the sales tactics and the products are the ones that do well, just like the guy in a suit with slicked back hair trying to sell you a Nokia.
I'm sure I'm not alone in that I never take your posts seriously. In fact, I've not seen a single post made by you that had any value at all. So don't worry; consider yourself disregarded by those whom don't want to waste time or effort.
You're something of a toxic waste dump, rhetorically speaking.
Heh, go lurk more. :action-smiley-052:
With that said, ANYTHING can be considered a profession if you make a living off it. You know there's actual guys who get paid to jack off? They're called "Jack off artist" and they get paid to masturbate on stage for gay men.
Is affiliate marketing new because i didn't get the memo!!!
Think a PHD in idiocy is a profession too?
Think a PHD in idiocy is a profession too?
My interpretation is a little different. I think AM is an industry, that has professionals working in it (some more professional than others).
SEO professionals, media professionals, paid search professionals - all a subset of marketing. Design professionals. Development professionals. Etc.
SEO professionals, media professionals, paid search professionals - all a subset of marketing. Design professionals. Development professionals. Etc.
People in Advertising Firms and people in Sales Organizations are considered Professionals.
So, as an AM you are at least into advertising. As an IM you're into both advertising and sales.
Here's an excerpt from here Profession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The list of characteristics that follows is extensive, but does not claim to include every characteristic that has ever been attributed to professions, nor do all of these features apply to every profession:
With all of that being said, I just tell people that I sell stuff on eBay. LOL
I started on eBay years ago, and still put stuff up once in awhile so it's not a total untruth. It's easier to explain, and no way would they understand anything about IM if I were to start explaining it in terms other than, "I am a salesman who uses the internet." Lulz
So, as an AM you are at least into advertising. As an IM you're into both advertising and sales.
Here's an excerpt from here Profession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The list of characteristics that follows is extensive, but does not claim to include every characteristic that has ever been attributed to professions, nor do all of these features apply to every profession:
- Skill based on theoretical knowledge: Professionals are assumed to have extensive theoretical knowledge (e.g. medicine, law, scripture or engineering) and to possess skills based on that knowledge that they are able to apply in practice.
- Professional association: Professions usually have professional bodies organized by their members, which are intended to enhance the status of their members and have carefully controlled entrance requirements.
- Extensive period of education: The most prestigious professions usually require at least three years[dated info] at university. Undertaking doctoral research can add a further 4-5 years to this period of education.
- Testing of competence: Before being admitted to membership of a professional body, there is a requirement to pass prescribed examinations that are based on mainly theoretical knowledge.
- Institutional training: In addition to examinations, there is usually a requirement for a long period of institutionalized training where aspiring professionals acquire specified practical experience in some sort of trainee role before being recognized as a full member of a professional body. Continuous upgrading of skills through professional development is also mandatory these days.
- Licensed practitioners: Professions seek to establish a register or membership so that only those individuals so licensed are recognized as bona fide.
- Work autonomy: Professionals tend to retain control over their work, even when they are employed outside the profession in commercial or public organizations. They have also gained control over their own theoretical knowledge.
- Code of professional conduct or ethics: Professional bodies usually have codes of conduct or ethics for their members and disciplinary procedures for those who infringe the rules.
- Self-regulation: Professional bodies tend to insist that they should be self-regulating and independent from government. Professions tend to be policed and regulated by senior, respected practitioners and the most highly qualified members of the profession.
- Public service and altruism: The earning of fees for services rendered can be defended because they are provided in the public interest, e.g. the work of doctors contributes to public health.
- Exclusion, monopoly and legal recognition: Professions tend to exclude those who have not met their requirements and joined the appropriate professional body. This is often termed professional closure, and seeks to bar entry for the unqualified and to sanction or expel incompetent members.
- Control of remuneration and advertising: Where levels of remuneration are determined by government, professional bodies are active in negotiating (usually advantageous) remuneration packages for their members. Some professions set standard scale fees, but government advocacy of competition means that these are no longer generally enforced.[citation needed]
- High status and rewards: The most successful professions achieve high status, public prestige and rewards for their members.[citation needed] Some of the factors included in this list contribute to such success.
- Individual clients: Many professions have individual fee-paying clients.[dubious – discuss] For example, in accountancy, "the profession" usually refers to accountants who have individual and corporate clients, rather than accountants who are employees of organizations.
- Middle-class occupations: Traditionally, many professions have been viewed as 'respectable' occupations for middle and upper classes.[24]
- Male-dominated: The highest status professions have tended to be male dominated although females are closing this gender gap[dated info] Women are now being admitted to the priesthood while its status has declined relative to other professions.[citation needed] Similar arguments apply to race and class: ethnic groups and working-class people are no less disadvantaged in most professions than they are in society generally.[25][dated info]
- Offer reassurance: Professionals are able to offer reassurance to their clients that although there appear to be problems, everything is normal or being dealt with properly, and this reassurance may be offered rather than solutions to particular problems. For example, sick people may be reassured that they will probably get better in a few days.
- Ritual: Church ritual and the Court procedure are obviously ritualistic.[who?][citation needed]
- Legitimacy: Professions have clear legal authority over some activities (e.g. certifying the insane) but are also seen as adding legitimacy to a wide range of related activities.[citation needed]
- Inaccessible body of knowledge: In some professions, the body of knowledge is relatively inaccessible to the uninitiated. Medicine and law are typically not school subjects and have separate faculties and even separate libraries at universities.[dated info]
- Indeterminacy of knowledge: Professional knowledge contains elements that escape being mastered and communicated in the form of rules and can only be acquired through experience.[citation needed]
- Mobility: The skill knowledge and authority of professionals belongs to the professionals as individuals, not the organizations for which they work. Professionals are therefore relatively mobile in employment opportunities as they can move to other employers and take their talents with them. Standardization of professional training and procedures enhances this mobility.[26].
With all of that being said, I just tell people that I sell stuff on eBay. LOL
I started on eBay years ago, and still put stuff up once in awhile so it's not a total untruth. It's easier to explain, and no way would they understand anything about IM if I were to start explaining it in terms other than, "I am a salesman who uses the internet." Lulz
This is a full time job for me and has been for the last 5+ years. I tell people that I do internet advertising, end of story. I don't like going too in-depth.
Funny how everyone uses the profession "internet advertising". I say the exact same thing (I came up with that on my own and didn't just read that somewhere). When I first started out, I was saying "internet marketing", but I switched it up because that sounded cheap, spammy and cubicle farmish.
I don't go into too much depth either. If asked, I always say "I create websites and I push traffic to them". That's enough for them to get a blank look on their face and not ask anymore questions. It's vague enough yet not fully disclosing what I'm doing.
hell yes, the ones that take it ten times more seriously than people bred strictly of education. you gotta have your wits about you too.
Same here, thats the only thing that makes sense to people.
If you go into it too much more, people get a weird look on their face. Then it ends up taking at least 20 minutes to explain it.
Sumit, Is this the guy who whinged to thousands of peope he didnt want a blog because he didnt want his name to get too big but is happy to allow 1105 people following him on twitter?
My tag line is "I focus on business visibility and customer engagement online. Meaning, I don't just build websites but I help them get more visitors, and make sure those visitors interact with the content."
Pretty much any laymen can understand that, if not, time to end the convo and move on to other parties. heh
Pretty much any laymen can understand that, if not, time to end the convo and move on to other parties. heh