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No Women In Internet Marketing?

I beg to differ. Here’s one. Check out Internet Geek Girl. Her name is Stephanie Agresta and she’s a long-time affiliate industry contact of mine. Smart, funny and driven. She is a geek marketer just like me.

Happy Labor Day, and check out Steph’s blog.

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Business Around A Lifestyle

The world changed on 9/11 in so many different ways. Since that day, there has been a major shift happening in the way people think and live their lives. Sure, many people still chase the dollar as their ultimate goal. However, many more people have begun to realize that the world could, well, end tomorrow.

That's why people are choosing to pursue a business around a lifestyle, instead of a lifestyle controlled by their business. It makes sense, right? If the world was going to end tomorrow, would you still try to live your life in a way you never wanted to?

Take a look around you and you'll see that this shift to becoming a lifestyle entrepreneur is being adopted by more and more people every day. Some of those people are falling into it because they have been laid off from their jobs and are literally forced into it. Some of those people just figure out a way to make it happen because of the "end of the world" thinking mentioned above.

5 Awesome Comments So Far

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  1. Stephanie Agresta
    September 3, 2007 at 12:13 pm #

    Hi Jim. Thanks for the props. I love Steve’s term – geek marketer, but I don’t think it’s a new phenomenon. I have had the words Internet Marketing or Online Marketing in my titles for the last 12 years.

    There are plenty of great women in the field. I would point your readers to the W List. Check it out:
    http://gpmb.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/the-w-list/

    Have a great labor day. I see you are laboring as I am. :)

    Enjoy some sunshine as well.

    Best,
    Stephanie

  2. Jim Kukral
    September 3, 2007 at 5:19 pm #

    I don’t think it’s new either Stephanie. Like you, that’s what I’ve been doing since 96 as well. I’ll check out the list, thanks!

    Actually, I got too much sun today. I’m a lobster.

  3. Jess
    September 4, 2007 at 2:43 am #

    I beg to differ, there are loads of women in internet marketing, in fact marketing is mostly made up of women but in roles where the men appear to be in the upper managerial positions. I think the numbers are imbalanced in favour of men, but the women marketeers, they are out there and I would like to see them increase. There does seem to be less women bloggers and authority figures, dont know why that is though, just an observation – Jess

  4. Gabi Andrei
    August 21, 2008 at 8:42 am #

    I am a woman working in online marketing and search engine optimization. I my country we count on fingers how many women are in this industry. Hope we will not be for long!!!

    Gabi Andreis last blog post..How to sell SEO…

  5. Jean9
    October 7, 2011 at 4:43 pm #

    Let's get real. Of course, there are great women out there, but the high-income ranks of blog, technology and personal growth online marketers are MEN ONLY, PERIOD. Telling us this isn't true because you know about one or two lower-achieving woman for every ten thousand men is just denial.

    It is stunning to me that when there are probably more women than men who are literate, only men make big money at writing online. The get-rich-bloggers for example are an exclusive boy's club. The top guys help each other by cross-promotion and they never – never – never include even one woman in their cross-promoting club. To be precise, get-rich-bloggers are almost exclusively white straight men, though a few non-white straight men have now been allowed to join. But women don't rate as authorities of any kind. The role of women in this mega-million scene is to pay the men for lessons but never become an authority worthy of their club. If they are authorities, they stay with niche, lower-paying 'lady' topics – teaching design or cooking or baby care. It is bizarre. How did this happen? How did the online marketing scene yank us back to the 1950s?