Alabama Business Today

with Calvin Bacon

Best Marketing Blogs


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1. Seth Godin's Blog

Seth Godin is a prolific writer and is considered to one of the best mind around. In
Seth Godin's Blog, he writes about the latest ideas on the latest marketing issues. There is just about as much to learn from how he does it as there is from the content.

2.
Copy Blogger

Copy Blogger is a site that helps entrepreneurs with copywriting and content management. Brian Clark founded the blog in 2006 and it is going stronger than ever. Teaching through lists is common on Copy Blogger. Titles of popular posts include "The 7 Harsh Realities of Social Media Marketing" , "5 Seps to Going Viral on Twitter", and "10 Effective Ways to Get More Blog Subscribers."

3. 
Social Media Explorer

Jason Hall sheds light on the how to's and benefits of social media in the Social Media Explorer. Topic Hall covers include Public Relations, Advertising and Marketing, and Search Marketing. Posts are easy to read and understand althought they deal with subject matter than sometimes can be a bit technical. The author makes himself available by giving his email and phone number on the site. Readers often respond with comments to his posts.    
 

 
 4. Own Your Brand

Own Your Brand
is a blog specifically for branding issues. Michael Wagner is the author, and he provides vivid examples of correct and sometimes incorrect branding methods. This site is easy to read and interesting. Wagner has archives dating back to 2005--a long time ago in the land of the blog.


5.
Drew's Marketing Minute
 
Drew McLellan is the founder of McLellan Marketing Group and the writer for Drew's Marketing Minute blog. This site has 385 members who follow the posts and have a back and forth discussion with McLellan about marketing ideas. The writing is full of suggestions and the author adds spice by having competitions such as the logo competition. He brings in outside experts when needed.

6. 
Flyte

Rich Brooks writes the Flyte blog which deals with subjects such as blogging, search engine optimization, email marketing and social media. He publishes his work on a monthly basis. The writing is sharp, to the point, and often funny.
 

 
 7. Masterful Marketing

Debra Murphy does a masterful job on the
Masterful Marketing
blog. She focuses a good deal on social network marketing, and also weaves in other interesting topics such as personal branding and life experiences. 

 8. Buzzoodle

Buzzoodle is a cool name for a cool marketing site. Ron McDaniel is the owner of Outstanda and is a prolific blogger. Titles include "Google Wave Invitation--Now What?" and "How to do a Webinar?" The site also has free offers and links to podcasts.

9. The Marketing Spot

Jay Ehret is the self-proclamed "Chief Officer of Awesomeness at The Marketing Spot: Consultant, Coach, Blog Author, Speaker, Raconteur.
The Marketing Spot. The blog includes ideas from Ehret and from guest authors from time to time.

 10.
Small Business Branding

Vera Raposo is the owner and chief blogger on the
Small Business Branding blog. She along with three other branding experts write about boosting a company's brand image and techniques in managing the brand. The authors usually publish once or more per week.


 11.
Tim Andren

Tim Andren has basically branded himself via his
Tim Andren blog. The site has an easy to use archive section sorted by dates and categories. Posts are published on average every week and go into considerable discussion on the topic.

 12.
McInnis Marketing

The
McInnis Marketing blog is the outlet for writing by Danielle MacInnis, founder of McInnis Marketing. Her explanations of what a business model is and why customers buy are excellent. In addition to clear accurate writing, the site has links to other helpful sites on the Web.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 

 
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