My Top 6 Business & Marketing Blogs

Posted: February 8th, 2009 by Jeff

I live by my RSS feeds, most of which are business and marketing blogs. Here are my 6 (current) favourites, with links to the website from which you’ll find your appropriate RSS feeds.

1. Seth Godin

   If you’re involved in marketing or any form of customer service, Seth’s Blog will definitely give you food for thought. His posts are typically short and opinionated, but I guarantee you’ll be bookmarking at least every 2nd or 3rd one. Be sure to check out his books too.

2. Cofebuz

   Cofebuz is a marketing and business blog with a focus on networking and building relationships.

3. Duct Tape Marketing

   Dedicated to small business marketing strategies, this blog has quite a bit of advertising and ’strategic partnerships’ along with its own branded product to sell, but some great ideas nonetheless.

4. Toilet Paper Entrepreneur

   Another heavily branded blog with product to sell, but some great content too, focussed on small business and entrepreneurship. The author even does video posts which have improved in production value quite a bit lately.

5. E-Quip Blog

This blog claims to offer ‘management insights for A/E firm managers‘, but I’ve found it to have some of the most useful tips for any type of service-based company - more so than most business blogs, which tend to focus on product oriented businesses. I suppose that architecture and engineering just happens to be closely related to the video production industry in which I work, where we bid on large jobs and provide a technical service.

6. Copyblogger

Copyblogger offers copywriting and online marketing tips and is an informative read for anyone writing virtually any type of marketing copy.

If you haven’t started using RSS feeds as an alternative to actually having to visit website URL’s, then do it now. And remember to subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed as well!

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Make Recommendations, Get Recommended on Gigpark

Posted: December 15th, 2008 by Jeff

When in need of a new accountant, handyman, or cleaning service, we tend to ask a friend for a recommendation. That’s the idea behind GigPark, a great new way to recommend and find these recommendations for a variety of businesses and services that your friends already trust and use.

It may be more of a stripped-down version of LinkedIn, but instead of being strictly for business, it gives the ability for consumers to recommend business and services to other consumers. LinkedIn, on the other hand, feels more like a strictly professional platform.

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Help to Alleviate Poverty with Kiva.org

Posted: December 1st, 2008 by Jeff

Looking for a gift idea for the holidays? Forget the gift certificates for the mall, and visit Kiva.org.

Kiva is a non-profit that allows you to lend money to a specific low-income entrepreneur in the developing world. You choose who to lend to - whether a baker in Afghanistan, a goat herder in Uganda, a farmer in Peru, a restaurateur in Cambodia, or a tailor in Iraq - and as they repay their loan, you get your money back. Its a powerful and sustainable way to empower someone right now to lift themselves out of poverty.

Best of all, you can purchase gift certificates for as little as $25 which can be printed off or sent electronically. The recipient can then login and redeem the certificate, choosing who to lend it to, and hopefully spreading the word even further to their friends and family.

Be sure to join the Kiva Basetwo Media Lending Team so that we can work together to alleviate poverty!

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