The best eBook on Content Marketing

November 6, 2012 By

I met Brian Clark in 2009 in Chicago at SOBCon. He was exactly the same way in person as he is online: straight forward, knowledgable, and a quick-witted sense of humor. Before that moment I was a casual reader, since then I am a loyal fan and evangelist of his work because well, it freaking works!

I could have easily titled this post I heart Brian Clark because I’m not going to share highlights from the ebook embedded below, rather I’m going to share more of his projects and tools that I highly recommend you use. And, you need to read the ebook below, if you don’t, well you’re that much further behind your competition.

Why Copyblogger?

For those familiar with the online scene, Copyblogger is a well-known blog that publishes fresh and free content for readers to improve their copy writing and content marketing skills. However, over the years Clark and his team have gone on to build their arsenal.

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Ebook: How to Use Pinterest for Business

March 6, 2012 By

Full disclosure, I haven’t yet activated my Pinterest account and last month there was sparks of controversy over their business model. But, can a couple of million users fanatics be wrong about the service? No matter what the tool, it’s the community that makes it. Remember Pownce? I loved that service, but not too many others.

Like any community, businesses need to have a presence where the people live and millions of people are hanging out on Pinterest. Below is an ebook from HubSpot to give businesses the lead needed to harness this community.

 

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Top 10 Social Media Power Influencers

January 27, 2012 By

This list was compiled by Forbes contributor Haydn Shaughnessy for a study soon to be published using social audience measurement tool PeekAnalytics. Without knowing the algorithms and data used, I agree with this list. Well, not completely. It’s very difficult to rank these individuals in order because each contributes value to the industry in different ways. But, I do agree that these 10 are true influencers.

The article linked to each person’s Twitter account, however these are the power influencers of the social media industry and as such they’re strengthening their communities by using Google+. So, I’m supporting their efforts and linking to their G+ profiles.

  1. Chris Brogan
  2. Ann Handley
  3. Guy Kawasaki
  4. Gary Vaynerchuk
  5. Scott Stratten
  6. Robert Scoble
  7. Glen Gilmore
  8. Liz Strauss
  9. Jason Falls
  10. Mari Smith

Find out who made the Top 50 on Forbes.com.

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Tools that remind you of your past

September 18, 2011 By

Since mid-2011, I’ve been using two services called 4squareand7yearsago and PastPosts. Both services send me daily emails of where I checked-in on Foursquare the same day last year, including Twitpics I uploaded or were snapped of me and past posts on Facebook respectively. Both services were built by the same team at two different hack challenges.

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