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Here in Dallas, we had a tremendous amount of exposure to the “dot-com” phenomenon and I heard the term “internet entrepreneur” thrown around a lot. An entrepreneur is one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise, and that term didn’t seem appropriate for where I wanted to go.
Neither did “internet salesman”. That usually implies someone who convinces another that what he has is better than what another already have and is usually restricted to “selling” in a given territory, in a store, or by telephone. And that sure didn’t fit.
Internet marketer” came close, but still it implied someone that promoted or sold a particular product or service and still wasn’t the definition of how I saw myself.
In the “real world” I had a profession requiring specialized knowledge and long & intensive classroom preparation.
I wanted to be able to translate that demeanor to the internet. I wanted to portray a professional attitude in what I did. I knew that in order to be successful, I would have to exhibit a courteous, conscientious, and generally businesslike manner in the workplace. In this instance, the workplace was the internet, and any communications and relationships that came from it.
Oddly enough, one of the definitions of “professional” is: participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs.
And truly, I don’t see all that many people in an online venture who follow a line of conduct as though it were a profession.
An “INTERNET PROFESSIONAL”, that’s what I set out to become.
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