I was planing to take a day for building products, but I thought I would go with it while I had these thoughts in my mind.  As I started my day today, I did the usual rounds by checking in on the Blogs that I follow and my first start was over at Darren L. Carter’s Blog ( who has since dropped of the face of the earth ).  I noticed that he makes reference to Alex Jeffreys and as I had heard of the name, I decided to surf on over to Alex’s website and see what was up.

It was my first visit to Alex’s Website and I had heard that he was one of the growing stars of Internet Marketing.  I’m just a little uneasy with what I found. Let’s call it first impressions.  I sensed several more degrees than six of separation.  What I found was a Blog style website that has not been updated for several months and was never really updated often,  as I went back over the sites archives I found that he sometimes only updates once a month.  Yet he turns in hundred’s of comments on his posts ……….when he does post, I noticed that one of his more recent post had over 800 comments. I average about 10.

He’s big on building his list by giving free stuff away.  While there is no arguing that giving away stuff is cool, it’s not the holy grail of Internet Marketing.  As Seth Godin says, giving free stuff away is fun and we all like a little magic, but as an online business practice the results are diminishing with time.  While at Alex’s site, I could not help but notice that all his free material links were either broken or took you to his membership area where notice is given that the program is closed.  Yet seemingly he has a great following.

Alex has not been involved with Internet Marketing long, just a couple of years or so and he’s going guns.  But things look a little rough around the edges over at his site.  However, I’m not writing this with the intention of kicking Alex’s tires, rather I’m just noticing the stark contrast to the new marketeers coming into the market.  There are just too many to list here, but they can take your breath away as well as intimate you with their well-rounded approaches to Internet Marketing.  You throw in a dynamic personality and in a word, Zoom!

If Alex Jeffreys can pull together results with his current practices, than the new kids coming in with their aggressive styles and dynamic personalities are going to be monsters of Internet Marketing. Don’t get me wrong, this describes Alex Jeffreys; dynamic, aggressive. After all, anyone who does an Internet Marketing Video, like Alex, while at his wedding is hardcore! But come this time tomorrow, there will be a whole new class of Internet Marketeer.

As for myself, I continue to post everyday and field my 10 comments a day, building ever so slowly, only concerned with the long road ahead of me and the promise of tomorrow that hope instills in all of us.

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