Here is my video on how to set up your own personal domain like ChrisBrogan.com or CharlesSipe.com and why it is very important for personal branding.

Personal Branding with a Personal Domain from Charles Sipe on Vimeo.

Just posted a pilot episode of the Cool Marketing Stuff video podcast. It was fun and I hope to turn it into a weekly marketing podcast that will cover what's going on in the marketing field and useful marketing resources.

Leo Laporte, one of the leading podcasters, recently stated that his podcast network, TWiT, brings in a profit of over $1 million a year, but said that podcasting is dead. He states that podcasts are just too hard for users because of the numerous steps that it takes to listen to a podcast. You have to find the good ones, download iTunes, subscribe to them, and then sync them to your iPod or MP3 player. Well, here's my list of the best marketing podcasts, so you can skip the first step of finding great content.

Top 10 marketing podcasts of 2009

10. Six Pixels of Separation
9. Marketing Voices
8. The Brand Show
7. Across the Sound

6. The Advertising Show
Brad Forsythe and Ray Schilens host a weekly radio show covering advertising, media, marketing, sales and customer relations. They interview a guest each week including many interesting marketers and authors.

5. Power to the Small Business
Jay Ehret interviews marketers and small business owners with a focus on small business marketing.

4. Duct Tape Marketing Podcast
John Jantsch also interviews marketers, small business owners, and authors with a focus on small business.

3. Brand Fast Trackers
Brian Martin interviews successful marketers in the trenches such as CMOs and VPs of Marketing. I like that he asks guests if they have advice for marketers who would like to get to their position.

3. Hubspot TV
Karen Rubin and Mike Volpe host this humorous and educational video podcast on internet marketing. They cover recent marketing news and useful online marketing tips.

2. Marketing Over Coffee
Chris Penn and John Wall discuss interesting marketing issues and give practical marketing tips, recorded each week from a Boston area Dunkin' Donuts.

1. The BeanCast
The BeanCast has emerged as the This Week in Tech for the marketing world. Bob Knorpp hosts a panel of great marketing thought leaders every week.

Podcast Graveyard
Last year's number 1 marketing podcast, Podtini had a great run of 98 podcasts, but it looks as if it has died.

Cool Business Podcasts
This Week in Startups
Entreprenurial Thought Leaders
BusinessWeek Behind This Week's Cover Story
Venture Voice
Harvard Business School Ideacast
The Engaging Brand
The Cranky Middle Manager
Wall Street Journal This Morning
APM Marketplace

The following is a guest post from The Executive Marketing Blog.

Ad-tech.com advertises itself as “The Event for Digital Marketing.” An initial glance around the web-site will immediately confirm that Ad-Tech, in fact, the event. When the initial Ad-Tech.com page loads in a browser‘s window, they will be immediately be presented with a list of international cities where Ad-Tech has a presence. Sydney, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, Chicago, Tokyo, London, New York, Shanghai, and Beijing all have clickable links in the left hand frame of the browser bar. Clicking on any of these cities will bring up a page detailing events scheduled for the near future in that particular location. For example, upon clicking on Chicago a reader will see a list detailing upcoming conference and exhibit hall hours with a list of keynote speakers, conference sessions, and regular speakers. Each speaker’s name is listed along with a headshot photograph. Keynote speaker’s names are clickable to provide the user with additional biographical information.

An extensive “Missed a Session” section of the site contains a series of podcasts. Each podcast contains a clear label, a very clear description of the topics discussed, and an easily accessible download button. The file size of the podcast is also presented to the right (measured in MB). Any person who did not want to download the actual podcasts can also listen to them in a background browser window. This section will prove particularly useful to business representatives who were unable to attend a particular conference.

Any company looking to actually be a sponsor or speaker, or to host an exhibit at an Ad-Tech conference, can find all of the pertinent contact details on the homepage. Clicking on any of these three opportunities will bring up specific contact information for Ad-Tech representatives the world over, as well as detail the advantages doing business with Ad-Tech provides. Any company looking to increase their digital marketing presence would benefit from Ad-Tech’s services, and at Ad-Tech.com a browser has access to all the information they need to attend a conference or exhibit on digital marketing in several major international cities.

This article has been republished with permission from The Executive Marketing Blog.

If you are a marketer of small to medium businesses, John Jantsch is someone you ought to be paying close attention to. Jantsch practices what he preaches and has built one of the strongest brands in small business marketing. In this podcast he goes into depth on how small businesses can utilize Twitter to market better and grow their business.

Duct Tape Marketing Podcast website

Christopher Penn Discusses Marketing Applications of Twitter on Six Pixels of Separation.

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