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PitchEngine: A PR Tool For Savvy Practitioners

Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from guest blogger, Jason Kintzler of PitchEngine. This is a terrific service that every PR practitioner should be using. So, get over there and sign up.

Pay No Attention To The Man Behind That (Bamboo) Curtain

Editor’s Note: Ed Moed of the Measuring Up blog – along with THINKing – is one of the 32 bloggers involved in the PRWeek PR Blog competition. He has proposed that we 32 bloggers unite on topics of concern to PR practitioners. Today’s topic: China’s Failed Olympics Strategy.

Dropping Breadcrumbs

How are you helping your visitors find their way around your website? Do you have a good grasp of what visitors are looking for when they visit you? Do you provide them with visual references so they’ll know where they are in your site at all times? Are you leaving them some breadcrumbs to follow? This is something we struggle with when we are designing sites.

Links 7/30/2008

Google News Separates Blogs From News Links

Five Free Must Have SEO Tools (hint: be sure to get SEOQuake)

FaceBook vs. Hasbro

PRNewswire vs. HARO

Newspapers vs. Themselves

Brands Joining Twitter

Links 7/29/2008

Why Is Stuart Elliott Shilling On Facebook?

Hundreds Of Bloggers To Interact With On Digg, StumbleUpon

48 Cool Social Media Sites

Social Media Ad Spending Hasn’t Caught Up With Hype

Cuil Stumbles Out Of The Gate

More Marketing Tools

Here’s another round-up of marketing tools and resources found on the web:

SpotMixer offers self-service tools to small- and midsized-advertisers for creating TV commercials online. Its customers now are able to distribute their ads through Google AdWords. 

Best THINKing

What is the best content in your RSS reader? Do you have a way to filter the wheat from the chaff? One way to do it is with AideRSS, the intelligent assistant that continuously monitors RSS feeds, finds the good stuff, creates a PostRank™, and delivers it to you.

Cool Marketing Tools

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Here are a few marketing tools and resources I’ve come across recently.

The first is the complete Zip Code Index, a detailed resource containing more than 42,000 US Zip Codes, along with their associated demographic and geographic attributes. There is no cost to download it.

The Dusty Archives

I was strolling through the dusty THINKing archives the other day and realized how much good stuff was in here that you may have missed. So, I’m digging out the top 10 postings of all time. Enjoy.

Top 10 Story Starter Tips for Blocked Bloggers

What Customers Want