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Best Marketing Links To Get You Ready For 2008

This is the last THINKing post of 2007. I have scoured the Internet looking for marketing-related information that will help you get ready for the new year of marketing. So, here we go:

23 Surefire Small Business Marketing Tips

Harry Hoover’s EzineArticle Page

Five-Step PR Plan – 2008

Top 10 Marketing Blogs

Jason Falls at Social Media Explorer posted last week about his top 10 RSS feeds to read regularly. This is my list of top 10 marketing blogs to read either by RSS or online. They are not in any priority order.

Write Tight

My first news editor hammered one thing into my consciousness: write tight. Leave out the frills, just present the facts and move on.

Many people who think they are writers want to commit an act of literature every time they let the creative muse out of the bottle. Write tight is good advice no matter what you are writing, but especially today when you are developing search engine keyword ads.

Website Grader Gives Us A 95

We have used Website Grader before to see how our website and blog rank. We’re moving up in the world. Today’s grade: 95. Here’s The Report For my-creativeteam.com

Survey Says…

My Creative Team member and longtime colleague and friend, Mark Harrison, wrote a piece about the effective use of surveys for our most recent Think newsletter. This article contends that many marketers go about surveys the wrong way. It’s all about the company, not about the user. Mark says,

Christmas Break

Turn off the computer and enjoy the Christmas holiday. That’s what I am doing. See you back here in a few days.

Top 10 RSS Feeds

Social Media Explorer lists its top 10 RSS must read blog feeds this morning. Nice piece, and I’m not just saying that because THINKing is in it. No, really.

I’ll be giving some thought to the question of my top 10  and addressing that next week.

StumbleUpon Two-Step

StumbleUpon can be an enormous traffic generator for bloggers and marketers. I use it all the time. And I just tested what I call the StumbleUpon Two-Step technique of driving traffic, and it also worked well to drive traffic. Let’s review how I did it.

Where’s Mikey?

A great way to bring a brand to life is through mascots. They can be used in marketing and PR efforts.

Top Presidential Candidate 2008 Websites

Hitwise gives us an update on which presidential candidate websites are getting the most traffic. Top Presidential Candidate 2008 Websites

Ron Paul, the Libertarian turned almost Republican, leads the way. This is no surprise. Paul has taken aim at the Internet like no other candidate, and is raising a ton of money online.