Internet Marketing Wake Up Call - The Strange Attractor

I haven't posted here in awhile as it's been super busy in 2009 but I had to write about a recent epiphany I had. I recently connected with Pete Barnett of the blog The Strange Attractor and as I was reading through the blog I had a sort of prolific Internet marketing wake up call.

This blog has absolutely no advertising on it what-so-ever. Combine that with amazing design works in print, photography, film, video and more, The Strange Attractor affected me in a very unexpected way.

The non-existant advertising, banner ads and Google Adsense combined with the selfless dedication to art and the promotion of artists from around the world (which is very apparent) I actually felt kind of wierd reading through the blog at first and I didn't know why.

I finally put two and two together and started to re-think what the hell I was doing as an Internet marketer. There is so much crap on the Internet today and admittedly I have not done my best in the design department. We as Internet marketers tend to focus on things like SEO, SEM and blogging for links that we are missing the true purpose of what we are doing, to provide great and well designed content.

It's great to make your clients money and do good work, but for the love of god let's all try and make the web a better place like Pete Barnett and all the talented contributors over at The Strange Attractor , Cheers!