All extreme noise and excessive hype surrounding what are bare necessities of internet marketing has noisily drowned out calm, quiet voices of folks that can actually do you any good. The serious, working professionals that truly understand what it takes to gain *quality* traffic for your web site. Search engine optimizers, permission email marketers, traffic analysis experts and community building software companies have been painted with a haze of guilt and shame due to hyperbole that has smeared name of Web Marketers -- until now.

Clearly it's time for serious marketing professionals to get some respectability by forming a professional organization requiring high ethical standards and providing best practices guidelines to establish certification criteria for members.

The World Association of Internet Marketers (WAIM) held an organizing meeting on April 11 in Las Vegas, Nevada during first annual U.S. "Internet Marketing Strategy Days", one of three events held worldwide by fledgling organization. Event organizer and WAIM interim president Lennart Svanberg of Stockholm, Sweden arranged international cast of presenters and workshop leaders for first U.S. event. Svanberg and Swedish partner Axel Josefson of http://Axole.com held their first Internet Marketing conference in Stockholm and a follow-up event in Copenhagen last year.

For next week, rather than tossing that junk in trash, hang on to it for evaluation purposes after reading this article.

After tossing out what you have considered to be junk mail, do you still have stuff that you’ve opened but goes immediately to trash without reading it? Ok, for this same next week set that stuff in another pile.