11 Great Social Media and Marketing Blogs

social media marketing blogsThe blogosphere sprouts marketing and social media blogs like your backyard after a good rain, but how do you weed through them all to get to the good stuff?

By that I mean original content that’s relevant, timely, and useful for your business – not something re-blogged from another A-list site. I’ve been cleaning out my RSS subscriptions for business, marketing, and social media topics, and I find that time and time again, I come back to the same sites.

Aside from some of the more obvious blogs, here are my top picks: Read more

Lessons of China and Marketing Cleantech with Weber Shandwick’s Willie Brent

Host Sean Daily talks with Weber Shandwick Senior Vice President William Brent about his experiences while living for over a decade in China, and using social media to market Cleantech in an era where tradeshows and traditional media are in significant decline.

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Marketing Opportunities on Facebook with Paul Dunay

The success story of the social networking site Facebook is the stuff of legend in the world of marketing. With its meteoric rise to the #1 spot for worldwide social networking sites, Facebook currently boasts over 250 Million active users, with nearly half of those users logging onto the site at least once per day, and the average US Facebook user spending nearly 4.5 hours per month on the site. Read more

Marketing by Thinking Like a Publisher

In a video, recorded by GuruTube at the 2009 Inbound Marketing Conference in San Francisco, David Meerman Scott asserts that no matter how you are used to doing things as a marketer, that you have to start thinking like a publisher.

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Creating a World Wide Rave with Author David Meerman Scott

Host Sean Daily talks with best-selling author David Meerman Scott about his hit book World Wide Rave: Creating Triggers that Get Millions of People to Spread Your Ideas and Share Your Stories, and how every marketer can generate a World Wide Rave of their own (book on Amazon).

Marketing to Needs vs. Wants

As recently as a year ago, when a consumer thought of buying a new car, he or she might have been thinking about buying a car that was fast, looked really sleek and that had great tech on the dashboard.  Today, that same consumer may be more focused on a reasonably priced automobile that gets really good gas mileage. Read more

Inbound Marketing Strategies for a Recession with HubSpot

Sean discusses the use of inbound marketing techniques and social media strategies that companies can use to increase sales and reduce costs during an recession with Mike Volpe, VP of Marketing at HubSpot and co-star of the popular video podcast, HubSpot.tv.