We're Not on the List--Yet
By Karen J. Bannan
An interesting press release came in this week. It was from self-proclaimed entrepreneur and international speaker Evan Carmichael. It's subject line: Top 50 Marketing Blogs to Watch in 2008. I was, of course, instantly intrigued. While the blogging community is a friendly one, I couldn't wait to compare our little marketing and advertising blog with some of the others on his list, which can be found here.
Carmichael breaks the 50 top blogs down by subcategory: Search Marketing, Online Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Small Business Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Business-to-Business, Marketing and Technology, Guerrilla Marketing, Brand Marketing, and General Marketing. After a quick glance I realized that I already read many of the blogs on the list. Maybe not every day, but at least once a week.
For example, Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Land. How freakin' awesome is this blog? It's a must-read in my book for anyone who spends their days working on search campaigns. MarketingVOX is another of my favorites. Angela Natividad really takes marketing news to the next level, with plenty of analysis and a true overview of what's going on on a given day. Since I follow a small business beat I have read four of the five blogs under this heading. Heck, I've interviewed Seth Godin and John Jantsch for stories I've written in the past. (Note to self: check out Ypulse asap. Looks like an interesting read.) My new favorite: Advertising Lab, a blog written by MIT graduate Ilya Vedrashko. It's weird. It's got lots of advertising. You've got to scroll a bunch, but the content is really unique.
All in all, it was a very interesting press release. I'm glad it skirted past my spam folder. Now I've got plenty of reading material. Do you have a favorite marketing blog that's not on this list? Tell us about it in the Comments section.
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