Granted, I am much too old to have heroes, but if I was making a list of heroes, Marlon Sanders would be at the top of my list. Actually, if Internet Marketing has any real heroes, Marlon Sanders should be on the top of everyone's list. Here's why...

Marlon Sanders is a marketer's marketer.

Marlon Sanders is an Internet marketer you should know. He sells some of the most popular marketing products that any company can use to further its goals. Marketing products that have their origins in the real world.

Marketing products which will help any company or person develop, promote and sell a product on the web or off-line. These marketing products are simple and easy to use. Detailed step-by-step instructions on how it's done, only the way Marlon can do it.

Perhaps, the biggest selling point for any of Marlon Sander's products is Marlon himself. He is a natural born promoter.

Colonel Parker has nothing on this guy!

His communication skills are top-notch. His sense of the dramatic is, well dramatic. He knows exactly how to grab your attention on our already overly cluttered and hype-infested Internet.

He can get his word in, out and heard with one headline.

That is not an easy task. Just try it.

Very few marketers can do it. Very few salesmen or women have that ability. To reach out and instantly connect with your audience, pulling them into your way of seeing how the world is ordered and laid out. Empathy has no bounds with Marlon starts writing...

His writing style is Hemingwayesque, don't laugh, there's more truth to that statement than most people realize. It you read his articles or his ezine, you will find similarities in the simple direct sentence structure and perhaps most of all, like Hemingway, Marlon is the constant story teller. He makes his points by telling or illustrating with simple stories from his own life. Stories you remember and can relate to, no matter what line of work you're pursuing or what level of society you're currently gracing. All can relate, there's something a little Hemingwayesque about that.

Marlon makes the commonplace his marketing arena, he turns simple lessons from his own life into noteworthy events that sell the customer on his product or point of view. It's what every good salesperson can do. It's what's Marlon has perfected into an art form. There's something noble in that, even if the real goal is to make a buck.

In the process of making that buck, Marlon has helped place Internet Marketing into the forefront, pioneering ways and techniques that add up to more than just an amazing formula. Making it more than just another way to earn a living, instead turning it into a lifestyle that many people, young or old can aspire to and grasp. It is a mission that he has helped many people to accomplish. Credit has to be honestly given, gratitude has to be simply offered.

Marlon is the marketer's marketer.

Next time you're lining up your heroes, give Marlon Sanders a good long glance, you may be pleasantly surprised to find out who your real heroes are. I know I was.