Resources and Tools for Online Marketers
The following article is a guest post by Jess Spate. Until quite recently, Yvon Chouinard’s name wasn’t well known outside of the extreme sports community. He was respected largely as a leader in the Yosemite National Park rock climbing scene during the ‘Golden Age’ of the 1960s and the blacksmith who created new rock climbing … Read more
In Howard Schultz’s book Onward, he talks about how Starbucks rebounded from troubling times that included hundreds of store closures and thousands of layoffs, to get back on track to growth and strong profits. Schultz who started out in marketing at Starbucks before buying the company from the original owners and shifting the business strategy … Read more
The following article is a guest post by Brett Alan. In a world where Internet marketing advice becomes obsolete in a matter of weeks, it’s rare to find a book with marketing insights and tactics that are as relevant and effective today as when they were first published nearly two years ago. Books about online … Read more
Jason mKey from Sparkplug Digital wrote an excellent review of Olivier Blanchard’s first book, Social Media ROI. With over 67,000 tweets and years of blog posts at The Brand Builder, Blanchard clearly believes in the value of social media and his book can help you present a strong case for using social media in business. … Read more
Creating remarkable content has been an important aspect of effective marketing for a long time, primarily in the form of major media advertising, but the recent rise of search engines have increased the importance of creating remarkable web content. Content Rules by CC Chapman and Ann Handley explain how to effectively create web content that … Read more
2010 was a good year for marketing books even without perennial favorite Seth Godin who switched to the self-help category with Linchpin. I was able to read more marketing books this year thanks to the Kindle app for the iPod Touch which allowed me to have access to my digital library from anywhere. I think … Read more
Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead is a short and sweet book on a self-explanatory subject. The authors David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan dissect how the Grateful Dead became one of the most successful touring bands of all-time, partly though unconventional marketing and business approaches that can be applied to modern marketing. Here are … Read more
The following article from The Marketing Spark, provides 5 books that you can read to become knowledgeable on the hot topic of search engine optimization. Whether you want a comprehensive 700 page book that covers the tactics or a book that explains the high level strategy and why SEO is important, see the following recommendations. … Read more
Branding Basics for Small Business by Maria Ross is a really good book on the important concepts of branding and will probably not get as much attention as it deserves because the title sounds like a text book. This book provides a good guide that outlines exactly how a small business can develop a strong … Read more
The following article is a guest post by Matthew Buckley. Overview: David Soskin’s internet business guide, Net Profit: How to Succeed in Digital Business, is in a minority amongst the many such books and how-to guides that have been published in recent years. This is because, rather than being written by a professional author or … Read more