Court's Internet Marketing School - Courtney Tuttle knows his stuff. So does Mark Butler, a contributor. They have a knack for breaking down fairly complex online marketing topics and explaining them pretty simply. And they do what they preach. Everything they're talking about comes from experience.
SEOBook - Aaron Wall charges a minimum of $20k/month for his search engine optimization consulting services. A lot different than HubSpot's $3,000/year fee. I don't know... maybe he knows a little more than we teach our clients. He did "write the book" on SEO. But, I can't imagine paying that much to anyone just for access to their brain. Especially, when his blog is free. You should read it. If you extrapolated the hours he puts into it, you're probably getting $100k worth of free advice every month.
Duct Tape Marketing - John Jansch wrote the book on online marketing for small businesses on a budget. He's built a mini-online-media empire serving small businesses with simple, yet solid, what we like to call "inbound" marketing tips and techniques. He specializes in helping small businesses generate referral business. Since the internet is the greatest word of mouth accelerator ever invented, you should probably tune into to learn how to leverage the web to increase your business's most important marketing channel.
Web Ink Now - David Meerman Scott's blog. David authored "The New Rules of PR & Marketing". His take on marketing is best said in his wikipedia entry: "He says that the rules of marketing and PR on the Web are completely different. Instead of buying or begging your way in, Scott says anybody can 'publish their way in' using the tools of social media such as, blogs, podcasts, online news releases, online video, viral marketing, and online media."
Marketing Pilgrim - Andy Beal covers industry news about online reputation management, SEO, SEM and "blogging for business". Following the news makers in the online marketing industry can be completely addictive. There's a lot of news and you could literally spend all day keeping track of it. Andy brings the stuff that's important while providing analysis of marketing trends.
Seth Godin - You call yourself an online marketer and you don't read Seth Godin's blog? What's wrong with you? Seth literally birthed permission marketing, and coined "being remarkable" as a marketing term - which really paved the way for the way we think about "inbound marketing".
Lip Sticking - Marketing to Women Online - 5 great female marketers blogging about how to market to women. If you market your product or service to women, you should quickly add these marketing gurus to your feedreader.
GroundSwell - GroundSwell is a new book by genius Forrester analysts, Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. Through Forrester, they have access to the data about how people are using social media sites. As we learned from the amazing attendance at this week's social media webinar, a lot of people are trying to figure out how to engage in social media to promote their businesses. Social media sites are where your next customer is hanging out. And your next one. And your next one. You should be there too.
Small Business Trends - Simple no-nonsense advice for small business owners and marketing professionals from accomplished internet entrepreneur and small business owner, Anita Campbell.
ProBlogger - Darren Rowse writes about how to be a "pro blogger" or make money/generate income from blogging. I don't really read it for that. I read it because he's also a master at leveraging blogs to drive traffic, something all businesses should be doing, no matter what they're "pros" at.
Noah Brier - Of all the people I know, Noah is probably the deepest marketing/branding thinker who also really gets [and does] online marketing, online advertising, blogging, social media, etc. Big brands really pay attention to him too. If you aspire to be successful online, you should read Noah.
CopyBlogger - If there's one thing we pound into our clients head, it's "content, content, content". To win on the internet, you need to produce it regularly and it needs to be good. CopyBlogger blogs about how content is critical to succeed at leveraging social media to grow your blog's readership... and your business's revenue.
Common Craft - If you're trying to figure out how to use video to communicate to your market, you should probably hire Lee & Sachi LeFever to help you. If you can't afford them, you should learn by reading from their blog. If you're not using a feedreader to read blogs yet, you have to watch probably the most viral how to video ever made. Lee and Sachi are poster children for how to leverage unintended viral marketing to start and build a very good lifestyle business.
B2B Lead Generation Blog - Did you know that 1/2 of the small businesses in the US are businesses that sell to other businesses? Brian Carroll talks about how to leverage the web to generate leads for the complex b2b sale.
PR Squared - Todd Defren invented the Social Media Press Release. If you're doing Public Relations and want to bring your PR skills into the NOW, you should probably read Todd's blog.
What other online marketing blogs should we all be reading? Leave your suggestions with a link and 'why we should be reading them' in the comments.
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Christina Pappas 11:54 AM on April 15, 2008
Great links - thank you! One comment regarding the structure of this blog post - it would be helpful to format these links so that they open a new browser window. Presently, when a link is clicked on, the navigator needs to continuously click 'back' to return to the blog post. You could lose someone out there ;)
peter caputa 1:27 PM on April 15, 2008
Thanks for the suggestion, Christina. Glad you appreciate the list. Don't forget to suggest one or two that you like.
If you're using the new version of IE or Mozilla Firefox, you could right click and open these pages in new tabs. If you're using an older version, you could just rick click and click "open in new window".
Hope that helps. I'm not a big fan of forcing new browser launches. It pisses some people off.
Yvonne DiVita 1:55 PM on April 15, 2008
I'm truly honored to be included in this outstanding list. I don't know all of these good folks, but I'm going to know them before the day is out. Thank you for including Lipsticking - we all thank you.
I remember this blog from awhile ago and it belongs on everyone's reading list, along with the cited ones in the list.
Nice work. Very helpful...
Andy Beal 2:04 PM on April 15, 2008
Thanks for the shout-out and thanks for reading! :-)
Chris 2:58 PM on April 15, 2008
Thanks, Good stuff.
Now if I can only find the time to read and implement all the great idea's I'm sure are included in these links I'll be golden.
Donna DeClemente 5:53 PM on April 15, 2008
Thanks for including Lipsticking in this great list of marketing blogs. I am one of the "5 great female marketing bloggers" you wrote about. Yvonne DiVita is the driving force behind the blog and is the expert in marketing to women on line. I contribute about promotional marketing to women and I'd love you to take a look at my blog which is all about promotional and interactive marketing today and how social media is getting into the mix.... Donna's Promo Talk. Much appreciate it.
Anonymous 6:10 PM on April 15, 2008
@ Andy, Yvonne and Todd: The honor is deserved. You all have worked hard persistently at building your blog and writing great stuff.
@Donna. You're welcome. You all do a great job over there. I have trouble communicating effectively w/ my wife and sisters. I would have a lot less clue about marketing and selling to women if it weren't for your writing. I'll check out your personal site too.
Darren 8:16 PM on April 15, 2008
thanks for including me in such a great list of blogs
edward 10:45 PM on April 15, 2008
thanks for the heads up! as a new business owner this info is very valuable
CS Thompson 11:37 PM on April 15, 2008
Thanks for this list! I have been compiling my own, via google. The ones I find are often really well SEO'd but not necessarily on topic or with the same authority as these, thanks!
Carlos Federico Muñoa Gimenez 1:25 PM on April 16, 2008
I found really useful your list Pete but I think you miss some others that are really important like: MSN, Google and Yahoo official blogs. Vanessa Fox and Matt Cutts Blogs. And some that I found really useful was sitepronews blog.
Thanks for the list Pete
Sandra Jakovljevic 2:01 PM on April 17, 2008
Last year I read great post about marketing trends in 2007, that was be interesting Web sources about collecting data on Web trends. After that I continue read the blog of Dave Chaffey. So web is http://www.davechaffey.com/
I hope that is be interesting for you.
Sandra
internet marketing 12:16 PM on May 02, 2008
Why my blog not listed here . I hope next time
Xhong 12:16 PM on May 12, 2008
You should've listed your blog too ;) But overall , it's a nice list
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Anne Zieger 11:39 AM on May 28, 2008
Great blogs there. Thanks for the list. I'm also excited by SmartMobs and /Message, though they both make me scratch my head from time to time...also ReadWriteWeb.
Julie Power 11:59 AM on May 28, 2008
As a newish blogger on this subject, I look for inspiration and ideas from many of the blogs you've mentioned. But I love the real marketing practitioners like dave at www.b2blog.com and patrick at www.lonelymarketer.com
BTW, if any of these famous bloggers mentioned would like to give me full and frank feedback on my blog, bring it on! I want to make my blog more engaging, more readable and more ... okay, and get more visits!
thanks
Julie
julie power 12:03 PM on May 28, 2008
Another marketer doing interesting things in an industrial company is, http://www.indium.com/blogs/Rick-Short-B2B-Marcom-Blog/
Deb Kennedy 1:19 PM on May 28, 2008
i direct all my marketing passion into this blog and try to ensure that every topic is engaging and helpful to those who are reading it. Hence the name The Road to Marketing Relevance. I know with so much information out there it's hard to decide what is worth reading and what isn't... just take a peek and then let me know what you think. Thank you.
Deb Kennedy 1:21 PM on May 28, 2008
would have been nice if i included the URL for the blog: www.roadtomarketingrelevance.com
Chris Goward 1:42 PM on May 28, 2008
Here's a blog to add to your list if you're interested in Conversion Rate Optimization, Landing Page Optimization or Usability Testing:
http://www.widerfunnel.com/blog
Russell Fair 10:48 AM on May 29, 2008
What a great resource. I too am an internet marketing kinda guy. and I already read about half of these blogs. Wow what fun. How do I get www.rfwebstudio.com on here?
Paul Gothier 7:55 AM on June 06, 2008
Two absolutely outstanding sources not mentioned are:
www.marketingprofs.com, and www.marketingsherpa.com
Paul Gothier
RTP designs, LLC
Jon Miller, Marketo 6:26 PM on June 08, 2008
No list of B2B marketing blogs is complete without including my Big List of B2B Marketing Blogs:
http://blog.marketo.com/blog/2007/02/big_list_of_b2b.html
Please use the comments to let me know about additional blogs to add to the list. Thanks!
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